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

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6 o% T( y8 b/ \/ l( ?I would like to tell you about 4 things：
7 I8 ^5 h7 [, g( [Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
6 Q; N3 s+ s6 [% W5 _- `0 L6 M% NØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
( Q, [7 n, c* R4 i, I; v* Q& EØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.
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, T% N/ o  f  }7 C3 [* G$ V7 w4 A1) 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.

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
( B9 o1 s9 A4 w5 n% Ntogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
Communities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
You can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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3 R  y: ]/ F6 P) C4 b4 I. P$ gThe 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.

Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
" ~1 I  i; s8 K$ f8 hEdmonton,
4 x: ]2 g8 d# sSuzana, ph 944-4687,
Email; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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! j  K8 o$ [  C" W2 N4 ^( N; P& H2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
: n- [2 Q# X, h6 N. E. `  i* lWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
0 b  Q; I  J! d! E4 iand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.


3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:

"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
) \3 m3 z3 m2 v6 k0 a+ {; C; H/ LMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
% d  d2 T% \! @* U% ?% h  D2 rStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
: T  O" q% I. |/ j: J1 e(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
3 @+ u: y& v: h$ [Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
by 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
7 X* R4 a1 Q5 z3 {) x# }$ \Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
$ x/ I; x$ m+ `* i% 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:
( n* }2 c& M& I8 hthey come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
$ X0 {  Q8 q. N* m7 L4 E8 D, cIain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
island and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
5 c9 S" a3 `" ~$ q0 ?0 r; T% v. Einternational peacekeeping operation.

9 F; x; M! _, b+ l  aThis 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
  A: g2 ~7 `" M7 oAfghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
( l; A% H4 K/ D4 @" {4 Z6 N2 T( w, c# Bimprobable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
* P+ Q* g: ^8 D/ w( D! U+ L$ iand music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!

According to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
4 I0 q3 B, }- h9 g0 f8 u& ?success of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
1 e3 C  K* {2 e' y/ z! o" G$ @process, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
- o) O$ B3 J- o+ dAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
0 h% F! C6 ]$ n+ U' b/ oso 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
" x& s+ x; p0 @5 }Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
9 M6 U! u4 B/ W) Z6 P9 I' ]Edmonton Public Library.

% M* N$ S5 L* H4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
6 O+ H# K1 @- e1 y4 F) i4 q# pIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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