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WHAT'S YOUR STORY? Workshops in Personal Storytelling The Downtown Eastside Writers Festival is offering workshops in Personal Storytelling during April. Bring personal stories about things that have happened in your life or fables and traditional stories that have special meaning for you. Jim Sands, who has told stories about his life across Canada, will facilitate these workshops. The workshops will culminate in a performance opportunity at the festival.
WORKSHOP DATES Friday, Aprll f« 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Friday, April 22 Friday, April 29
(Workshop Carnegie Learning Centre)
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (Worksh?p Carnegie Learning Centre)
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
(Workshop Carnegie Learning Centre)
PERFORMANCE DATES Friday, May 6 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Friday, May 6 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
(Rehearsal, Carnegie Theatre) (Performance, Carnegie Theatre)
FACILITATED BY: Jim sands has performed in many community theatre projects in the Downtown Eastside and as a storyteller and musician. He has appeared in productions organized by Vancouver Moving Theatre, Community Arts Workshop, Hollywood Kidz, Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival and in 15 fringe theatre festivals across Canada.
It is with admiration congratulates
that the Carnegie Community
Centre Association
James Pau, a long-time member of the Board of Directors,
on receiving an honourarv degree from Simon Fraser University.
JAMES CHI MING PAU, DOCTOR OF LAWS, HONORIS CAUSA Humanitarian Dr. James Chi Ming Pau, an SFU alumnus, has spent 47 years providing compassionate health services, improving the quality of life for seniors and people with addictions in Vancouver's
THE FIRSTANNUAL ART EXHIBITION of GRADUATING ARTISTS of CARNEGIE'S
ARTISTWORKSHO'P April 1st (to 3pm to 6pm
so"? in the
Gallery Refreshments & Snacks
Acrylic and Watercolor Drawings Pastels Mixed Media
Paintings
•• Special Guests: The DTESWriters'
Collective
Crafter Wednesdays and Drop-ins
------------------.1 From the LibrarY On April 12th, the Camegie Library and Centre are welcoming Mono Brown, who will show us how death doulas can support people and communities facing end oflife. Several resources on how to approach end-of-life frdm a place of curiosity,
Downtown
courage, and compassion will also be shared. This presentation is part of the Libraryand Camegie Centre's Community Death care project. 10am-12pm in the Carnegie Theatre. Spring has sprung in Vancouver! The cherry blossoms are out and daylight is extending well into the evening. It's a great time to curl up on your favourite park bench, take in the fresh air, and immerse yourself in a book! Iiere are a couple of some selections from the Library's shelves: . Violeta by Isabel Allende. Allende's latest novel chronicles the life of Violet a, born in South America in 1920. Bookended by two pandemics, her hundredyear-long life was witness to some of the greatest upheavals and social changes in the 20th century. If you are looking for an inspiring and deeply emotional read, this is for you .
Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises by Jodie Adams Kirshner. This gritty book cuts through the common portrayals of the city of Detroit being either a written-off failed city, or a reborn, flourishing city of opportunity. It tells the intimate tales of several people who live there, and what daily life is like among the abandoned factories and hip cafes of this misunderstood city. Find these and many other books, movies, TV series, and more on the shelves now at the Camegie Library. Gavin Grandish
VOLUNTEER PROGRAM UPDATE: National Volunteer
Week 2022, April 24-30, 2022
Let's celebrate Canada's volunteers. The empathy, compassion and generosity of volunteers creates connected communities and Bring Heart to the DTES Carnegie Community! The National Volunteer Week theme for 2022, Volunteering Is Empathy In Action, affirms the strong connection between volunteerism and empathy. This profoundly human connection is at the heart of healthier individuals and stronger communities. Empathy is a quality that can help people relate to others and build awareness around different experiences. It connects people in ideas and actions and helps create bonds forged in common goals and aspirations. Volunteering can help us develop empathy, to see the world through the eyes of others. It can connect people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences, expanding our views. It can build our capacity to work collectively and contribute to a vibrant, inclusive society. To celebrate you and all the hard work you've done, please join us for a Carnival theme celebration! Volunteer Appreciation Celebration: Event April 20, 3-6pm Volunteer Carnival Games, Prizes & Food (Open to all active and past volunteers who are hoping to return). Distributing 2022 volunteer T-shirts (T-shirts will be available to volunteers who are Actively logging hours only) 4-4:30pm Honouring
Volunteer of the Year and Special Merit ceremony Volunteer of the Year: Thelma Jack Special Merit: Gilles Cyrenne, lames Pau, Roy Youssefzadeh, Kyoko Zushi Congratulations to all honorees!
Body is a temple Why is it that every day I shame the miracle that keeps me alive Seen and felt all my trauma starving and broken begging for my attention But all my attention focused on the things that broke me at the start Pools of blood, body covered in scars WHY!!! my body screams but the cries are swallowed by the devil laughing inside Why must we deprive our souls ofliving Instead we die . trying to feel something and still, after all that torture our bodies are still waiting for us
to return and finally realize this is wherewe live this is where our true happiness lies Inside our bodies the ones we tortured and destroyed looking for it Mya
Bitter Truth After murdering, plundering Raping The dying soldier Cries out for his mother Stewart Brinton
Ken Lyotier Celebration of Life
Wednesday, April 6
3:00-4:30 p.m. SFU Woodward's Cinema (149 W. Hastings) Wheelchair accessible
:: Food and beverages available after the event
Ken was the founder of the United We Can Bottle De ot, which was the Join us to celebrate Ken's life and to launch a fund he created for the economic, and environmental chan e
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Passports/masks
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Cleaning Up The Streets This is my tribe. Where I live and walk along, oftentimes garbage dresses these streets. The rigs, the meth pipes broken in two ... Then along comes one of the shiny people, our street cleaners, to pick up the filth left behind in this beautiful place we call home. I say Thank You! to each of them. I've had the honour of chatting with some of them. Their stories are full of how important it is to stay ahead of the amount of garbage they pick up along the back alleys. . I'm grateful to these people for keeping our streets and back alleys clean. By Gordon Bird Cleaning Up The Streets is an asset for meeting tomorrow then tomorrow is better Clean streets develop clean minds cleaning develops correction cleaning develops cooperation cleaning develops clean attitudes cleaning develops beauty Cleaning streets opens up hearts & minds to smile and enjoy cleanliness Cleanliness encourages us to be accountable Cleanliness shows Respect and Dignity Clean streets show a clean environment Helen Wierm Cleaning Up The Streets What's in the city stays in the city. When you throw it out in the DTES someone is likely to come along and clean it up. Their tools of the trade are gloves, some aluminum prongs and a pull-around tote. A sunny disposition helps as smiles replace old rigs and garbage. These are the people in the bright yellow jackets, an unpraised army making our world a better place. When you see one greet him or her with a compliment and a smile! By Roger Stew art [These 3 bits were brought to the Newsletter office after Tuesday's meeting of the Firewriters, facilitated by Phoenix Winter. The prompt of "Cleaning Up the Streets" hits at a common eyesore of junk left on the sidewalks and in back alleys. The program employing locals to pick up litter was started by Ken Lyotier.]
SCIENCE 101 at UBC - it's Free! UBC's Science 101 Program are offering an inperson, on-campus course this summer. For information on how to apply please see details below. Please contact sciencelOl@science.ubc.ca with any questions. Science 101 - Discover the World Around You! Learn from UBC professors about space, earthquakes, botany and more! No prior knowledge or education is required. Adults who have never taken the course before are welcome to apply. Program is free. Science 101 is a four-month, non-credit, course offered to residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and other inner-city communities. There is no fee for the course and no pre-requisite knowledge is required: https:llscience.ubc.ca/community/l 01 Students gain a better understanding of the world around them, meet others, and have fun while exploring exciting topics in science. Science 101 introduces students to a wide variety of topics, including physics, astronomy, chemistry, and biology. Classes are taught by University of British Columbia professors and graduate students who donate their time and resources. Optional educational field trips are also offered throughout the program, and include the H.R. Macmillan Space Centre, the TRIUMF Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, and a Botany Lab. The course will run from May 9th - August 4th, 2022. It will consist of two in person lectures (Tuesday and Thursday evening from 6 - 8.:30 . PM) on the UBC Point Grey Campus. Optional In person tutorial sessions will take place on Wednesdays from 3-5pm at the UBC Learning Exchange (612 Main Street). If you are interested in becoming a student please complete and return the attached student application form to scienceI01@science.ubc.ca or you may also email us at science101@science.ubc.ca if you have any questions.
Green New Deal Economics I have been studying Economics for most of my adult life. I am not an expert but given the kind of world we now live in as a result ofthe neoliberal expert economists who have dominated the last 50 years, we need a different kind of economic understanding. Academic and expert professional economists who have most influenced the world recently have derived their approach from c1assicalliberalism, from a belief that the supremacy of the "market" is the best determinant for organizing society and human affairs. These economists, with their belief in libertarian philosophy and individualism, recommend dismantling government programs, advocate legislating to suppress unions and workers' rights to organize, and attempt to dismantle any kind of collective initiative - including public education, oldage pensions, and medicare. These beliefs and initiatives frame the foundation of late-stage capitalism, with its high interest rates and austerity programs designed to oppress the working classes and the poor. Right wing libertarians and neoliberal economists recommend that governments' only roles should be to support policing, fmance the military, protect private property, and enforce capitalism. Milton Friedman, of the Chicago School of Economics and Frederich Hayek of the Austrian School are probably the two most influential neoliberal economists. Friedman's assistance to Pinochet in implementing a neoliberal system in Chile required the murder and jailing of all opposition, created massive inflation, inequality, and unemployment, and implemented a constitution which gave all the power to the wealthy. John Maynard Keynes, probably the most enlightened economist of the 20th century, called Hayek's book Prices and Production, "one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read," adding, "it is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end in Bedlam." (1) The supremacy of the market is based on the belief that the "invisible hand" of commerce creates the best way to arrange (or not arrange) how society functions. This "hand" is invisible because it is the hand of the superwealthy 1% manipulating governments, markets, and investment wealth. It is invisible because it hides their criminality, tries to hide their destruction of the environment, and hides behind a system designed to enrich the already wealthy and their absolute dependence on the carbon economy. Fortunately in recent years many heterodox economists have come forward to contradict the economic Bedlam imposed by the super wealthy I% ruling class with help from the 5% who hold the majority of stocks in socalled "public" companies, who are all supported by the 20% owning class sycophants. In her book, The Case for the Green New Deal, Ann Pettifor demonstrates how we can apply the principles outlined in her previous book, The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers, to transform our planet to a steady state green economy that is a subset of ecology. There are limits to what we can extract from nature and limits to how much garbage we can spew into the biosphere. We need to learn to live as partners . with the Earth. We cannot transform the carbon based economy and implement a Green New Deal without also completely disgiantling the power of cross-border financialization that now rules the world. Her approach, based on Modem Monetary Theory, outlines where and how democratic governments with their central banks can achieve green economy goals. For example neoliberals, despite their animus toward government, are often dependent on government bonds as security for speculative investment that contributes nothing to the real economy. Governments could end that practice. We need to understand our present economic situation in order to transform to a Green New Deal. I recommend reading The Case for the Green New Deal first because it presents the nuts and bolts of how to proceed. For a deeper understanding of our power as a democracy, read The Production of Money. Both books are fairly short and easy to grasp. We need to elect leaders, who understand the power we have over the money system, with the vision and courage to lead us through these perilous times, times of Bedlam, caused by intentional market-fundamentalist mistakes designed to funnel carbon economy wealth to the filthy rich, as they destroy our planet. Plus we need to study, lobby, organize.jmd demonstrate. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wikilFriedrich_Hayek By Gilles Cyrenne
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