Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival Call for Organizing Committee Volunteers

VOAF 2019 Organizing Committee Members edzy edzed, Sharon Burns, and Pierre Leichner

The fourth Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (VOAF) will be held August 7-9, 2020. This 3-day free festival offers exhibition, sales, performance, learning and connection opportunities to Vancouver-based visual and performing artists facing exclusion. In 2019 we had over 1,000 people attend and sold over $10,000 worth of art with 100% of sales going to the artists!

VOAF’s organizing committee meets roughly monthly beginning in November to help plan and carry out the festival in collaboration with CACV staff. Anyone who wants to be a part of a vibrant, inclusive, socially-engaged vision of Vancouver is invited to join this joyful work!

For more details visit our blog.

Reminder: CACV AGM Fast Approaching

All members, and those wishing to become members, are invited to our upcoming AGM. Individual memberships start at $15 for students and elders, and $25 for all others.

We will share news of our recent and upcoming programs and events, and hold elections to the Board of Directors. This year we will begin looking forward to our 75th Anniversary in 2021, with a special invitation to past members and those connected to CACV's long history who may wish to re-connect in this time of renewal and celebration!

At the Annual General Meeting we will put forth a motion to repeal Section 4a of the Bylaws regarding Board member terms. As we have several long-serving officers, we have been in contravention for some time, and will repeal this Section until there is a timely and comprehensive review of our Constitution & Bylaws in alignment with our strategic plan.

Tuesday, October 29, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Creekside Community Centre - Multipurpose Room 1
1 Athletes Way, Vancouver

For more details on this AGM, visit our blog post.

Events by CACV Members

BERLIN. 1934. THE LAST NIGHT. THE LAST CABARET

SNEAK PREVIEW
Saturday 26 October, The Carnegie Centre
7 - 9pm, with keyboard and community talkback
presented as part of The Heart of the City Festival

Members of a cabaret troupe gather one last time to perform for their friends, some of whom have already gone missing. It is 1934 in Berlin. The Weimar Republic has collapsed, and the world is turning upside down.

Based on 18 rare songs from the Weimar era, this is music cross-connected in a new narrative. Weimar was a period of tremendous experiment and daring, risk and transgression, gender liberation, discovery and allure – especially in Berlin. We bring it to life.

And we examine the rise of fascism through the manufacture of chaos and consent, deliberate lying on an unimaginable scale, and the exploitation of race, fear, and gender. The failures of the Weimar Republic may anticipate ours today.

For more information, visit the City Opera website.

Roedde House Museum presents Classical Concert Series presents Da Capo

Featuring Vancouver Guitar Duo (Stanton Jack and Louise Southwood)- Sunday, October 20^th. 4-5pm

The Vancouver Guitar Duo Vancouver native Staton Jack and British guitarist Louise Southwood will perform a concert entitled Da Capo: Guitar Through the Ages on October 20th. Their repertoire is an eclectic mix of original duo guitar arrangements, including Renaissance and Baroque lute works, Brazilian sambas and Bossa novas, and fiery Spanish dances.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students, seniors and members.

For more information visit their website.

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