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,
' E9 m: Q: S% K0 {2 uØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
Ø Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.
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. @; k, h# B+ c1) 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
) V+ J' `" _8 _3 vEngagement Training.

* H6 u" w" T& D4 D8 B# r1 b6 Y( A% HWe 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
: A9 h7 d5 X+ p- Jgroups.  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 $1,000.
. B$ W3 ]4 ~. P/ p* {+ iYou can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.

" ?$ E7 f. p8 qThe process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
1 r% c! {% Z) M5 Rs two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.
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% d( N( G" m! G' `Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
Edmonton,
2 d1 Y: M+ f0 ~! D* d/ \$ B; NSuzana, ph 944-4687,
. r; B% X# n: u$ c8 A7 C9 YEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
World Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
8 Y, S2 Z& b9 H; |4 kand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.

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4 {, C% s% v2 G7 @: E3)  Edmonton Small Press Event

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

"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
- y( d' S: q* T; ]Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
- B/ L; A# Q; F) F, sStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
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Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
0 o: \: @2 t. x$ @by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

% h5 D) n+ a" V$ W+ G3 z9 S! gSynopsis:
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( R; G2 @* m: \* VSet on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
4 ^$ A# h6 U# _# m. ]9 w  x4 mof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
conflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
international community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
# @1 x; x* J6 ]they come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
, _. O7 }0 P4 Z) w/ H! `island and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
2 ^/ K8 c& Q+ `/ E* R/ q6 linternational 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
. o. x+ j# @2 n! ^+ b3 g9 }who brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
7 j- X  ~# q, H/ mscreens 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
. n% H, t# j, k4 {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
) D9 d$ G" a" L( v) ]  Yhands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
4 _3 i$ T2 p6 n7 BAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
/ o4 `) O* J) sso we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."

  G4 T) A$ r, _! a3 V" M, vPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
Edmonton Public Library.
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4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
: o. U# j, q' Z! e7 ^3 D4 n# i* H0 nIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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