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.
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, ~/ m& @1 C& a; q( t1) Community Dialogue Project Phase 1
I'd like to invite people to join our new Community Dialogue project.
9 M5 Z/ V4 Q& b% g3 o0 ~* C. _/ SIn phase 1 we have a couple of extra spots available for Community
% A( i9 ~3 r" M3 QEngagement Training.
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We can accept a few people to join us this Friday (3~6 p.m.)and Saturday,
1 E, D- ?/ p) _" F! B: n% [(9~3 p.m. ) to improve skills in building multicultural neighbourhood
0 b7 f7 H. k" ^) \2 jgroups.  We're especially focused on developing groups that can work
0 _- L! t- K$ ?" d0 @2 n( D* Otogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
Communities can often support these projects with funding of up to $1,000.
% c, [; P  p/ C7 u8 v4 ~  a# tYou 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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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.

Enrollment for the CET training is free, but please call to register and enroll.
* R5 ?6 Y' k; [/ ORm 217, 10010-107A Ave,
/ ^" z! p% g7 a6 ]7 f/ mEdmonton,
; Y; ~6 K0 p2 F0 rSuzana, ph 944-4687,
) X& j8 z9 B) I0 {Email; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
6 T; P' h  ?6 m6 z; s& Y; W6 n# @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
and Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
* w& V1 n! H& F6 u0 ffor these exciting local events.
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* p$ E6 f. X# ~" B& l% |3)  Edmonton Small Press Event

Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:
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"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
3 c" g  n4 a5 a6 l( E4 ]7 w- V75 min. Australia, 2006
3 \& ~/ u5 R& qMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
3 p: J+ ~$ F. O0 z9 sAdmission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)

8 P( z0 b5 z- W  KFilm screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
8 Y* {, H" N9 @8 \) k6 v: _by featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith

9 ^' f# A9 R" W7 U7 Q( r4 DSynopsis:
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Set on the remote Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville in the South
Pacific, "Bougainville Sky" is the story of how music helped overcome years
7 }" x6 F9 P2 n$ S" M! qof 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
/ s/ x/ h! b5 |/ ?  u2 nIain Campbell Smith, whose music and radio program became a legend on the
- v+ m# c# G: fisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
1 D# n9 f7 L; E  minternational peacekeeping operation.

2 O8 o0 z2 z4 I9 d. uThis 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" z  {- }9 q) S+ ywho brought themselves back from the chaos of war. At a time when our TV
( u: V- ]5 g0 _+ B) _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!

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
% _) G* o5 Z& F% T( Jprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
/ r$ `" J5 Z2 Q7 e7 thands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
+ B; Y8 b  b/ \/ ]& PAlso, because we were unarmed we couldn't scare anyone into doing anything,
so we learned to communicate instead. That's where music came in."

/ i( Y1 w  j! f; `) U4 A1 vPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
8 ~5 s* m7 i$ e  ^6 E2 r' t2 DSmall Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
: w& g7 @$ _. L6 F2 {! OEdmonton Public Library.

4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
% \+ H* M5 D& v& kIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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