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

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3 m  E1 V4 R9 Q7 q4 {I would like to tell you about 4 things：
Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
+ P; A( H/ I4 gØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
* `) q3 x' U% h4 i% iØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.

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6 j/ \, K, E4 I* f' e3 V& ]1 N1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
9 Y# O6 P4 l  E# H* o+ ^I'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
& p/ `; x$ K2 W2 o$ u& W7 W6 b3 FIn phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
6 c0 e  v* Q( _* e) f- k- gEngagement Training.

) q1 [  ^6 m6 L' ^; g4 PWe 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
* X' M; ^8 u2 O+ N1 vtogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
" e9 i* j1 P& k+ _; x; DCommunities 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'
$ C( B$ K, `0 s+ d) @) q5 y  Dve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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+ y+ p- A- J; J1 \$ w6 t" XThe process we're using is the World Café, one you might know from Edmonton'
2 A$ ?( E( y8 ^& h. o/ {/ Rs two world cafés hosted by Plan Edmonton in 2005 and 2006.
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5 h: T. ~/ r4 F! ~# S* L+ QEnrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
+ v' B- c& B0 w$ c* rEdmonton,
9 T' o# b" Q" x- e6 j% A; o3 A& xSuzana, ph 944-4687,
  I; ?% S& A8 C" dEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

$ `, P! Z3 K# s/ l9 _, e9 T2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
( L! G* _) s1 N' i6 N, JIn March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
2 E% v. E% z# [/ g! QWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
and Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.
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. E- E$ l) R0 J+ B/ K3)  Edmonton Small Press Event

Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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5 d3 J0 r6 ?  r- }% L"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
2 P+ D( a& Q9 s75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
& V' T% H  Q2 g, ?: N, mStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
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Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)

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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+ X; j6 |- h0 q: V: k: e0 h+ Y/ {Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
8 G3 f3 R' ^+ q) h; e, KPacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
" w- K' x2 }- {6 yof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
conflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
! B" `6 h3 A0 z% D' A0 finternational 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
9 l$ ?( A4 V0 g, f( Xisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
/ s) X  X" h, h# i+ b6 M7 L7 U' Z  ?+ Uinternational peacekeeping operation.
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& t3 j, _) K$ ]( B, \This beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
* ?) |. m; Y* g& V! P; {own story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
0 s6 n1 x3 V, k0 n" q4 E& 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
, z( G4 `6 g7 C6 GAfghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
/ f+ P+ y" Z1 ~* Vimprobable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
and music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!

) |7 v7 O1 @9 R2 tAccording to Smith "the fact that we were unarmed was critical to the
) t5 y/ _" S, c; [success of the peace process in Bougainville. It set the tone for the whole
9 ]9 @! I2 d& v) T7 G/ qprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
, Y2 U+ K; W3 }8 K7 t( OAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
. T& e! j. Y6 ]# Yso we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."
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" q' ?) O# n; c6 B8 v3 P# [; Y+ UPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
- M/ B1 J$ F6 Z6 q/ A4 XSmall Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
5 U6 x; V7 r% s7 ^$ ]Edmonton Public Library.
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) ]) D: h- h" O& ?: ]$ m* J! s) O4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
: n( {1 A0 E7 E# _2 O7 SIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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