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

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I would like to tell you about 4 things：
2 E5 l9 c9 l9 E4 zØ our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
% ?& s- R$ H* `0 XØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
9 X! L5 h( ~! Y7 XØ 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
6 F1 t. S. _8 v/ a6 H) V" OEngagement Training.
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- M& M7 T: }9 M3 Q. D  N" rWe can accept a few people to join us this Friday (3~6 p.m.)and Saturday,
+ }$ k* b2 ~- v(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
- ~$ B3 J: W. A8 QCommunities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
4 u) N# D! `9 J2 j8 h; u5 U7 a: R( [7 MYou can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.

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+ L8 J& k% zEnrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
! I7 J5 H( a  _& V* L! ]Edmonton,
2 k3 n  A7 s& Q2 VSuzana, ph 944-4687,
Email; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
, I5 ?9 v7 g0 ^; @6 OIn March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
World Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
$ @2 w6 T) C+ u% @6 oand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for 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:

  `/ ^- F8 j; v( a# F/ e5 ~"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
( I. b+ S/ P2 X; ^75 min. Australia, 2006
8 z; N. |' X: w9 O* A0 YMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
1 ^* c* `3 c' bStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
* ]: X+ y# O1 q( n7 p! M( ^( V' N$ ^1 {0 n(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)

$ d. n- m: t" \Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
6 e- ^. Q6 J7 H/ H. x& Xby featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith
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Synopsis:
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Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
9 s# E2 C2 @$ W& ]8 X9 rPacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
$ E! I! |7 D# A7 h5 Q2 Z3 xof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
) |6 M" O! l; B7 c/ t8 mconflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
& C7 w& a9 q8 O6 Z, W8 Z3 A4 Ginternational community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
7 I# C) N! M7 jthey come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
+ x" n, W* V* D/ d0 zisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
9 @# z) |' e; e9 i6 |0 `% U( Ninternational peacekeeping operation.

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
% j! |) O9 V9 p# S+ ewho 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
) M( U  D3 |' D8 sAfghanistan, 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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2 ^5 S, K& ]  B4 S# _" F+ sAccording 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
. _( Z! F5 E8 g3 ]. H. Iprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
. f7 C6 x! Y* H' Ahands 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,
/ ]2 W& B5 ]; Rso we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."

4 Q5 R$ S' C; ?Presented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
1 c. e: U4 L( Q/ f& Z' \Edmonton Public Library.

4 r7 t& [$ L' {6 M) u  Q4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
5 @+ H8 g3 F% [& u7 vIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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