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

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1 d$ u% M6 ]" z' s# @1 AI would like to tell you about 4 things：
Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
Ø Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
Ø 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
Engagement Training.
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2 Q+ F0 s  h- B% d) {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
3 H/ h7 B7 f0 j/ f4 a' Q" a, vgroups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
. ^0 o1 N& M# {9 a& ctogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
Communities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
8 _8 A1 j0 U$ g8 c: |% C' pYou 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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- W% T) _( Y. e7 S( z' zThe 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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) Y3 T2 _) m& S$ \0 L# zEnrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
- H0 i8 T/ q# _1 C9 HEdmonton,
Suzana, ph 944-4687,
5 [' ]% J$ A" s6 REmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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# U( o) `+ g' e0 U2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
% A/ [4 D# G, l, v' J% I: lWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
" t3 V) x" q- A' G$ U+ Band Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
, b- w  X3 j# F6 u2 s' Z$ Bfor these exciting local events.

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3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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, a3 d* U% _. {6 V5 HPlease join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
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9 c: I, ]% U( e3 tAdmission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)

Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
7 V; {6 o0 n4 n0 w; i6 f) Hby featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

9 P) u; J, {0 n/ sSynopsis:
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* V7 v; K  N) Y, y% X' m) NSet on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
" V' w- N; U" Q/ {. _" uPacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
3 l. e+ C# H: R7 m7 cof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
4 @1 z" P8 F* K5 l- \conflict 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
  S% t6 T5 ^8 N- zIain 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.

% X5 F6 F2 G9 R- hThis beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
own story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
1 F0 V+ Y$ S0 c# k  V7 h$ swho 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
$ ]5 @; h, P+ z- h0 wAfghanistan, 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!
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; H  s2 R; I+ u8 ?9 y. }$ \According to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
7 S; ]- ~$ |4 m( Osuccess of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
  }: d4 ~8 Y. i3 ~7 E/ X" Zprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
( a2 O0 A6 b- M- C/ @( whands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
, ^+ l5 d/ M4 n% a. nAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
0 c1 ^( J- z, u4 `; x+ }/ g) W/ @0 vso we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."
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" ]3 S1 K9 q7 N# _# L$ CPresented 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
/ U% P% a) G( R/ D& D2 |6 A. tIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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