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

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I would like to tell you about 4 things：
- n1 M4 S' }( P3 W- x* NØ our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
* ^2 T9 e7 j8 v0 j  P# J( KØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
; O3 h* l& W2 |; {  x/ A, \. wØ 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.
In phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
- j) m9 @, U3 L- ]* XEngagement Training.
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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
# y# L, A0 i2 b3 L. {- B# kgroups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
together across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
5 O9 c1 M  X8 B2 ZCommunities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
7 a. {1 X+ |$ D- J: @9 y' p; b. nYou 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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The process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
s two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.
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* Q! I, M. Q+ y# `Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
9 Z0 v5 B, Q% t" X; MEdmonton,
7 E# n# `. x! Q' G$ n3 USuzana, ph 944-4687,
: U! }5 v/ c4 G" m$ `) P9 F' REmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

# G4 V$ T  r& Q5 Y8 t2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
3 o/ T4 n0 Z! y$ c# {+ lWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
and Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.

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5 A& u4 X9 [, I7 x8 _. U! t8 f3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
7 V) S8 R) s/ F" `% C# U75 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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% j' ?: g, Y7 \+ G7 o, tSynopsis:
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: |: L: G' ^. Z2 tSet on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
( X* O/ ^& v  K0 q1 _* tPacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
% Q. N: m! h" x' kof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
conflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
  y: Z( H% w$ u% i/ @( ^" }international community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
8 @& h0 L& D( P) |  hthey come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
6 E' y( \9 ~/ Lisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
international peacekeeping operation.

% Y$ x, e: i3 j( a( r0 g8 @, w' pThis beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
5 o% @# ~# y9 z7 W3 a9 P2 Sown story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
who brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
) s/ D9 B8 @3 E4 n/ Gscreens 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
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
! K6 r6 B$ }( Esuccess of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
& |+ ?6 b) j3 C2 O  uprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
0 \/ u+ E& G* O% uAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
2 j+ p/ }# j' F& W! Pso 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
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
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4 t! Z4 c! g$ j5 C4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
1 Z: m2 Z- e2 ~/ B9 N8 e+ A( dIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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