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

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I would like to tell you about 4 things：
% {* l/ a) V% ?: V4 s( ]* h% f" L9 q. kØ our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
0 W; ]/ V: b0 ?6 {* E) XØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
$ |2 e, Q7 ]( w' M! S8 TØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.


1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
8 ~& [; F) Z( PI'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.

7 `  g$ z5 ^4 \8 F6 y3 xWe 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
$ Z& N. g* J& Q$ |' Ogroups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
; z5 Z  v4 [/ X9 c) rtogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
Communities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
- C6 I. ~0 Q; L8 y! W6 n# LYou can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
  C7 a7 a) F" r) Qve 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.

. B2 g% i+ E8 K* o" w# ^& PEnrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
) I* e7 Z' E% e. {Edmonton,
* q/ m: B0 ~; q' Q, }, M% mSuzana, ph 944-4687,
( }- t# h3 m1 N6 U+ }7 _Email; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

- ]  _! y$ Z- ]2 n' q; ^  a, _% |2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
# x* b# |/ j0 gIn March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
* K, e4 ?6 ~  ]  q: \& ~4 _World Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
% w) j$ i$ ]# O" H3 Qand 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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' h9 J+ O+ {5 OPlease join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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8 _( h. y9 |( b  f& R"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
7 K% ~. J* [; l& s) K/ vMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
+ u* _/ L, S9 I. K+ u' i8 WStanley A. Milner Library Theatre
3 d; F: l9 H* ?' _6 v; J% e3 \( J: L(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
0 |3 t$ w- G  q/ h+ i, u) z. ^8 QAdmission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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, p. H' v6 _) C; _Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
8 y8 p2 w2 T* ^% uby featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith
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Synopsis:
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' a1 k$ A5 T6 ]  [# aSet on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
; e6 {5 p; W- \+ {1 I- M/ ~of fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
/ L2 ^7 T4 Y+ r! |( k# d# w* Z8 oconflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
8 q4 T# ]; q# B3 Sinternational community to send in a Peacekeeping force on one condition:
6 q* f+ Q7 Z  Qthey come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
8 t: u2 Y1 i! G1 l! QIain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
) s& d% z  ~2 |4 G5 L9 ^, G& h. Oisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
+ _: v  A% j" Q% vinternational peacekeeping operation.
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3 J7 h- I# t8 X1 D# H0 W0 YThis beautifully shot film allows the Bougainvillean people to tell their
+ l  U( G7 g, v7 p) @2 ^/ down story and captures the struggles, the strength and the humor of a people
. x+ g/ j& {6 `: G5 D- F1 lwho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
& l2 r( l4 L# L) S; i- [8 wscreens are filled with images from the interventions in Iraq and
/ Y3 |6 g" ?6 C$ yAfghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
* F5 e7 m$ D# d% N8 e+ V8 u0 {improbable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
& ?" {: t" d( B2 _1 sand music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!
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# {. y; F8 }) E, ], ?( ]According 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
/ j* z# t0 ]+ C5 F2 wprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
. ~0 k4 G% I& _6 yAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
so 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
" q, [' ~9 o6 a/ i% ?6 J3 {7 LEdmonton Public Library.
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4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
4 z) l/ _/ k0 ^' E/ O# g) 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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