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,
  ]1 C5 T' D( q' W8 Y& }Ø Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
5 S3 i& [, f8 l7 cØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.
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6 V8 |: S% [6 E. j# Q3 w' c1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
I'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
$ g6 z) t( B* y/ [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
/ s; t6 t, r; o- z+ stogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
/ h) U8 F1 o! nCommunities 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'
0 D( \" b4 ]2 w7 d7 Ave supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.

- C! P0 y  D" V7 }. VThe process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
" u- [& O, f- q! Cs 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.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
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: v7 m8 k" r; K5 ]' t2 C7 GSuzana, ph 944-4687,
0 Q! r' o" F; a' Z9 _* c* kEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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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
and Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
! s  C# c$ ]* a0 Z* bfor these exciting local events.
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3)  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"
+ T6 D) l* M5 d. J. K( J1 qDirected by Nick Agafonoff
# W/ c$ U* O" O4 D! |; G75 min. Australia, 2006
, h+ w, o& b5 VMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
% r# ]1 n6 C4 l. K! ]Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
. c. l! j0 n+ l' T(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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  o7 u* a9 C0 w8 Y! X+ WFilm screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
* W( c: u1 f* iby featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith
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) K' \; W' x4 {" {$ ~/ oSynopsis:
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Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
5 W, M, k2 u. N+ y3 W, k5 Zof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
# E+ w) C  m( F+ qconflict 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
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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
who brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
screens are filled with images from the interventions in Iraq and
; i% {% v2 w, f1 E& FAfghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
; G% @* P2 o# o, Cimprobable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
6 H6 x% B1 A& y0 P* Band music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!
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( {$ d, D( p4 C; D' WAccording to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
success of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
; N9 z4 N. \* x4 N8 Iprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
# Z* T3 Z( T6 U" S2 mhands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
Also, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
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( {  k. z! S- u, UPresented 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
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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