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,
2 \" G* C+ M, SØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
Ø Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.


5 C; |- m: B$ ]+ t) x$ ?# E1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
: d) t8 s/ A' K( i- b$ LI'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
In phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
Engagement Training.

We can accept a few people to join us this Friday (3~6 p.m.)and Saturday,
(9~3 p.m. ) to improve skills in building multicultural neighbourhood
groups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
together across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
& ^$ U+ x' S* G# Z5 DCommunities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
You can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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5 Z" x. U. N5 w# gThe process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
; J# d$ b5 P& u7 D0 u6 is two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.
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  R1 `- y. n0 Y& D' ?) G$ q' Q1 h: GEnrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
  e4 @6 D' [% e( W" HEdmonton,
: O% Q% W* \, d5 _0 o0 bSuzana, ph 944-4687,
* @+ b+ @8 W; iEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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6 `$ P$ {+ y7 M* C( Y: E* c2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
! R7 G6 m* O+ n; W  W$ z5 m1 ~World Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
and Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
+ H5 r# U6 `+ d! E% C4 A3 c2 F6 V: Efor these exciting local events.

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$ a9 ]% X% a: t2 X# ^3)  Edmonton Small Press Event

Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:

! {2 K+ ~  M9 M( g"Bougainville Sky"
- _: M0 p- F) x# Y5 K8 LDirected by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
& O0 {1 ~2 n4 d/ J8 o# tStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
: F* ?5 `# X# V$ d& B& b& MAdmission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
$ a2 [% d; f; G1 T
Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

Synopsis:
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Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
4 o( J! x4 ]5 {3 qPacific, "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
5 g7 ^, p! P3 J' ?3 Wconflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
international community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
they come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain 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
4 w. N+ D! m' j6 _0 o( x( ~own story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
+ i; z. r' ^8 v$ hwho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
( c# ]$ V3 W) Y4 Tscreens are filled with images from the interventions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
! E& [( z9 ?, C9 A4 _2 z# |' Kimprobable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
and music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!

According to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
: q7 ?0 E& j0 p& d8 @! [; msuccess of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
7 Z, y/ [5 g% Y5 D3 j! }7 T2 lprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
2 j2 L$ D$ T+ [" s! MAlso, 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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Presented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
7 Q+ c% W, w7 OSmall Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
7 i" d* `! w" c; ?+ F8 _Edmonton Public Library.
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  K2 r7 z8 q- x% I2 A5 a3 w# J4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
4 F  f; i1 o' b4 a! p1 {+ EIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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