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

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1 j1 X/ L& A( TI 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
5 J+ E2 a) H; D  O* A0 cØ Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House Jan. 26.

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1) 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.
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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
$ m5 V7 L* x, U9 Q) I8 wtogether across cultures to create community projects and Action for Healthy
7 l2 s: O% p( {Communities 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'
0 \9 D! [2 C( {. A- I5 t) `ve supported recently at http://www.a4hc.ca/community_initiatives.htm.
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' p, j1 F& s4 C2 C4 HThe 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,
Edmonton,
Suzana, ph 944-4687,
9 j& h  r1 ^/ ~$ {$ ~8 uEmail; actionsd4@shawbiz.ca
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2) Community Dialogue Project Phase 2
3 ]; {+ v8 }7 y9 a4 c( \1 ^0 ]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
! {$ D2 ?% J& }/ ^8 mand Eastwood, consecutively.  Mark your calendars now and sign up in March
for these exciting local events.

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1 e, |2 Q3 u' _& E6 Z/ D& F, ?. ?3)  Edmonton Small Press Event
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Please join us for the Alberta Premiere of the documentary film:

7 }$ v9 q4 [+ Q8 @- S5 e"Bougainville Sky"
Directed by Nick Agafonoff
7 Z9 x0 d$ y& \% B75 min. Australia, 2006
. Y& O/ x+ A# X2 x0 {; fMonday, February 5, 2007 @ 7pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
* B+ m( q; e1 [' S- F: `$ Z9 h(7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton)
- a' i3 N! }. ^' X" X: R3 Q5 O  tAdmission: By Donation (Free to Low-Income)

4 `, T$ V8 V* F) I# G1 xFilm screening followed by a Q & A session and live performance
6 H7 x; E! l3 u: d* g0 rby featured Australian songwriter Iain Campbell Smith
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Synopsis:
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7 U, `) w6 Y" _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
1 A  ?( `3 u+ s8 L5 S  E% Oof fear and distrust to rebuild peace in a war torn society. When bitter
  X$ a7 c+ Y+ O' `8 C: D6 x/ c: }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
& G6 \) k% q" g8 }" E8 O6 gisland and contributed to the success of the world¹s first unarmed
international peacekeeping operation.

' u# m! X% o! ]+ @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
- [7 Q  c- x0 h! l& r0 p# ^who 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
+ ?3 w/ w9 |: O$ J( r% @5 a/ n# g7 fAfghanistan, 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
) x& d! l8 H0 o, bprocess, and put responsibility for the safety of the Peacekeepers in the
hands of the militants and the people, rather than the other way around.
2 A- r' @5 r/ A1 ^; I" x8 B6 ZAlso, 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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' i) Q" b, L5 D5 @: o3 }' |4 qPresented by the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism and the Edmonton
Small Press Association. Sponsored by Ronin Films and supported by the
  X& |' d: ?) K7 x  Y& REdmonton Public Library.

4) Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation Coffee House
$ W, ]9 a7 l8 _4 l0 ?) O0 y& h/ U% I$ pIn support of Aboriginal people affected by HIV AIDS Jan 26 1:00~9:00 p.m. at 10590-109 St.
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