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

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I would like to tell you about 4 things：
  ~4 F9 W% B9 j: `Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
+ O% x5 [. @" s9 ^Ø Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
Ø Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.


1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
+ {# e6 Y: @7 FI'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
. z  \" F$ R) U# b" L1 P0 Z; M: W; iEngagement Training.

, x$ H$ u& ~' HWe can accept a few people to join us this Friday (3~6 p.m.)and Saturday,
0 b  e1 j+ F6 M(9~3 p.m. ) to improve skills in building multicultural neighbourhood
. k3 Q. ]7 v& Y0 l# Qgroups.  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 $1,000.
You can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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0 S$ `, @: s' A1 d3 fThe process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
( ^0 v& i! u( Z0 ns two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.

Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
, z7 U6 Z- T1 E4 F- r2 W& ]Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
Edmonton,
Suzana, ph 944-4687,
  A' Z2 W7 k' cEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
3 d2 P; \6 f% E' F+ \/ e5 wWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
" c. [$ _$ p3 h2 I$ G2 Qand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.
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( `0 j8 x  V6 Q3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:

"Bougainville Sky"
9 W2 m9 |4 x! JDirected by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
- s8 L% D! M) g3 P& h(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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! s5 T. F/ \* |4 O4 GFilm screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
4 H. N5 f$ G4 H5 H% lby featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith
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Synopsis:
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2 s" U+ j- \. o/ Z9 g+ N+ NSet on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
" g% H5 v' `2 k8 I) x6 ]Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
  L" e* b* f  |+ o0 aof 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:
/ |7 ?, k1 s$ [. |/ F6 @they come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
5 S5 ~2 l5 O; E" T8 P4 P: wisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
2 f' b( q3 A, `; B. f/ N! m& binternational 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
; Q* ~, m1 {' e- ]) _2 p8 U8 hwho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
$ o& s8 f5 N8 ascreens are filled with images from the interventions in Iraq and
- x, l7 o% Y( ?, yAfghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
improbable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
$ b: s9 k( C+ {and music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!
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According to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
/ U0 \3 S# a' R  L% @success of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
( O  C+ a1 r3 K8 |process, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
' V" n# e9 ?, y3 X" Chands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
& F8 @$ `4 K5 ?% h5 u1 KAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
. U. A5 |/ B: Z! z/ Nso 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
Edmonton Public Library.
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4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
* {/ s) W" f6 T. j6 }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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