活动 !!! Four upcoming events, including this Friday, Jan 26

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I would like to tell you about 4 things：
Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
4 C4 j# k3 _; Y: E7 |. R) FØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
8 }# s6 Z  v4 u# bØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.
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1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
I'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
' v- n+ m( B3 M# oIn phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
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We can accept a few people to join us this Friday (3~6 p.m.)and Saturday,
4 m+ `; e: ~+ n8 p- l8 L9 [2 Q" H1 H(9~3 p.m. ) to improve skills in building multicultural neighbourhood
. H- B4 K  ?  _, V5 x; X+ y$ [* agroups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
together across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
Communities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
  ]9 Y2 `& Y1 LYou can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
: F9 w0 r& u/ f( j$ D3 l4 ^& Y4 kve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.

The process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
2 T' B' S7 s+ k, f0 p1 x- V! Qs two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.
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Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
/ T' j6 n0 K9 T* l+ d+ q. ?- dRm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
Edmonton,
Suzana, ph 944-4687,
; ^% x$ {) m% Q, f" iEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
2 Q# }. s+ f8 P8 P8 PIn March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
World Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
4 t0 a" D# G/ ?6 U2 c2 K$ eand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
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3)  Edmonton Small Press Event

Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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3 e+ s3 e; N9 Q' D- c8 }$ w4 U"Bougainville Sky"
! t. _& F" o- b; Y" FDirected by Nick Agafonoff
) T/ v1 [, e7 _75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith
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Synopsis:
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Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
1 Q3 l9 R3 h  Q" I9 e8 _% VPacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
of fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
conflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
- q9 b7 R) {  U5 V) \- `international community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
" z% Z+ R! a! \: y3 c3 ~8 Vthey come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
  V& Q" {: x" O8 pIain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
island and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
international peacekeeping operation.
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This beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
own story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
8 A' r, F4 u, g' c* R0 ^: J. xwho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
- u# ~% E# I1 i! A% T; wscreens are filled with images from the interventions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
improbable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
4 }$ z) x* o' U/ W: }7 S# Kand music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!

: E- x6 O4 k7 e- j5 d" rAccording to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
; V$ K; p( l/ ^success of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
process, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
5 H; H/ R- s/ i8 v/ q+ u- j" Xhands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
0 a  w7 v& e! ]7 K3 w5 c; S/ NAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
so we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."
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2 g- o) y+ R# v2 A3 j- fPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
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4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
In support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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