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

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" V& w# d' `# ]) xI would like to tell you about 4 things：
7 h/ M# q4 ^9 [% ~+ |Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
% m% z8 Q- K1 ?$ I4 @# `) oØ Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
2 d, m% r9 e( r( f* K7 P2 VØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.

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1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
0 Q7 s' U* S4 hI'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.
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  e: P/ l# K1 h" d3 c. Z9 |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
together across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
4 Z/ Y0 I" B( E5 B+ CCommunities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
+ U4 I8 d7 |& t5 f" vYou can find out more about some of the projects (Community Initiatives) we'
- g' ?% O7 ]3 J7 a+ x$ Q+ s  u) I) Fve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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/ z6 y7 Y% b7 x% oThe 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,
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Suzana, ph 944-4687,
Email; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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' f( R- L5 }4 b% B7 B2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
  p; c1 X! l9 u* Q7 }, c/ YIn March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
1 \: t& p3 s9 A. A" v# VWorld Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
and Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
/ m1 L8 z/ `- J+ \. v, sfor these exciting local events.

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3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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- ~- G# J* F. T4 U. I/ ]Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:

"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
75 min. Australia, 2006
Monday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
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1 o# w: P7 g* ^" {" gAdmission: 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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# F! |" X4 ^0 p( p$ \Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
% e' @% I  T4 W  aPacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
( E8 D& a1 y- r0 Lof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
conflict on Bougainville Island ended in 1997, the combatants invited the
2 n  q% A! v3 f6 k7 ~international 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
- A: {% x) \# _$ I0 Q  Disland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
! ^0 ~3 p" p* C( }3 dinternational 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
! _! D; J, }7 |. U8 B) g. iwho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
  G. P% K9 z0 N1 K9 Cscreens are filled with images from the interventions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the success story of the Bougainville peace process seems
improbable: an unarmed international intervention fostering local customs
$ g( x, Q% H4 c. [and music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!

' U! `7 V8 G  u& U: @# MAccording 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
* ?' u$ s: N/ oprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
5 E$ R+ {" T  W+ [$ ~: i- s. ~- OAlso, 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
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Edmonton Public Library.
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! }4 h6 O- @  R4 G0 \' \4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
9 k* G" V. \( j+ Y" u) 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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