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

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I would like to tell you about 4 things：
Ø our Community Dialogue Project Phases 1 & 2,
Ø Edmonton Small Press filming of Bougainville Sky Film & Performance - Feb.5
Ø Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.


' p3 A5 e1 X/ z  ]0 a; @' e1) 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
8 J5 |" e7 H- ^$ Htogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
2 Y6 v4 ?; J: u: o. uCommunities 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'
. Z7 `7 U8 i% nve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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5 g; s; H" Y. aThe 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.
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! Y( ~8 B1 e# Z& n! x3 N* n6 O, ^Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
Rm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
Edmonton,
0 |1 [# Y  V( H3 RSuzana, ph 944-4687,
  D4 N/ Z- C9 a6 t4 iEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca

2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
In March (March 9, 16 23 & 30) graduates of the CET training will be hosting
World Café style community dialogues in Alberta Avenue, Norwood, McCauley
4 v* v( H( ^4 e0 [& g$ b' ^and 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:

9 v1 t2 s0 S$ m' o1 z* `' A7 O4 \"Bougainville Sky"
9 U7 ~" J" _2 XDirected by Nick Agafonoff
, U5 p0 P) `  R0 U75 min. Australia, 2006
/ Z6 i2 c8 @5 N, n, m  HMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
* _4 M" b- @5 f4 g% `& {9 L* i% {Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
Admission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)
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Film screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
9 ]( P' e% w# V9 M% z3 gby featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

* o/ Q4 Q9 @7 H( o, N+ [' s" NSynopsis:
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, `4 z: c. ~& V) J# t; T3 ]+ CSet on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
( {) D' {- X) r8 Y, LPacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
: C  o# Y7 u4 y( S% U* |/ cof 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:
they come unarmed. Amongst the Peacekeepers was young Australian songwriter
Iain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
island and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
4 ]& W& f. J, {8 z* V0 @: H# linternational peacekeeping operation.

% ^3 Y4 \: a' O- q4 E6 |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
+ b6 L' d. I0 s- k/ T7 Y% ywho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
3 O' d, b2 O% Z  ^screens 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
and music to strengthen an indigenous-run peace process < and it worked!
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: g5 {: m( C, {$ aAccording 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
" N4 t5 J$ x, l. f' |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.
  X; D# [, w3 d$ o0 y( w; l! h4 h5 KAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
7 f8 L, A9 l- F* Fso we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."

- |. N& @2 `* F3 S2 s) w6 ~Presented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
- J$ q1 T# J* |# Y" {, m8 p- TEdmonton Public Library.

4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
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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