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Nov 08 24 2008 5:30 PM
Vancouver Metis Community Association Annual General Meeting

18 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.003

The Vancouver Metis Community Association is having their Annual General Meeting on on Monday November 24th at the main library from 5:30 to 7:00 downtown in the Peter Kaye Room.

We encourage members of the Metis community to attend this event. Our community is large but not very active or organized. Come and introduce yourself because we would love to meet you.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to meet other Metis people in the GVRD and find out how fabulous we are. It is also a golden opportunity for you to become an active member and to volunteer your time and

 Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Vancouver, BC, V6B6B1

4 Yes
0 Maybe

Nov 08 15 2008 7:30 PM
The Louis Riel Day Celebration

4 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.001

Welcome to Compaigni V'ni Dansi!
This is a Vancouver-based dance company which specializes in traditional Métis dance and contemporary dance.

Bringing Métis traditions to audiences everywhere!

Upcoming events include the Louis Riel Day Celebration at 7:30 pm on November 15, 2008 at the Roundhouse Community Centre and the premiere of Stories from St. Laurent at the Firehall Arts Centre in April 2009.

Tickets for Louis Riel Day Celebration are now available! To buy your advance tickets for the Louis Riel Day Celebration - please contact Tickets Tonight on the web at www.ticketstonight.caor by phone at 604.684.2787 .

You can also buy tickets with cash at the door.

For 2008, the Louis Riel Day Celebration will feature Yvonne Chartrand, Wayne Lavallee, The Louis Riel Metis Dancers, Madelaine McCallum, Greg Scofield and Winston Wuttunee. We'd love to see you there!

The Louis Riel Day Celebration

Vancouver’s Festival of Metis Dance, Music & Culture

7:30 pm Nov. 15 at the Roundhouse

 Roundhouse Community Centre
Vancouver, BC, V6Z

3 Yes
2 Maybe

Jun 08 24 2008 9:00 AM
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY COMMUNITY CELEBRATION

800 attended (est.) – 4.00 4.001

NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
Trout Lake Park June 24th
Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(604) 872-6723
This celebration will begin at 9 a.m. at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society, 1607 E. Hastings St., with a free pancake breakfast, entertainment and speeches followed by a parade to Trout Lake Park.
I will be there at nine with my sash tied around my leather bag and looking longingly at the pancakes with a knife and fork in either hand.
If you see me come up and introduce yourself.
Live entertainment will take place at the park from noon to 5 p.m., with canoe rides on the lake for kids and craft tables, as well as free burgers and hotdogs for all attendees.
Entertainers will include: Earl Charters performing traditional hoop dancing with as many as 30 hoops at a time; Art Napoleon's bush-country blues, which combines the sound of fiddles, guitars and harmonicas with traditional hand-drums and vocals in both Cree and English; singer-songwriter Kinnie Starr with her mix of rock, folk and hip hop; and Discreet, young hip-hop singers from North Vancouver
The event is a joint effort of many agencies, including the Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society, the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and Trout Lake Community Centre.
Bring your own chairs and blankets.

 Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society,
Vancouver, BC, V5L1S7

2 Yes
1 Maybe

Jun 08 21 2008 10:00 AM
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY IN RICHMOND

4 attended (est.) – 4.00 4.001

NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY IN RICHMOND
Minoru Cultural Centre
(By bus from downtown take the 98 into Richmond and get off at the corner of No 3 Rd and Granville Street and walk two blocks west to Minoru Gate)
I will be there at noon at the main entrance with my sash tied around my bag and looking for bannock. So don't be late.
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(604) 271-7600 ext. 150
Watch the Louis Riel Metis Dancers (rumoured to perform at 3:20 give or take 10 minutes) and drum-making demonstrations, view aboriginal films and listen to aboriginal writers. Other performers will include: blues musician Murray Porter; the Heiltsuk Dance Group from Bella Bella; Gerald Charlie and the Black Owl Blues Band; hip-hop performers N'didi Cascade; and half-Cree, University of B.C.-trained cellist Cris Derksen who mixes hip hop, rock, folk, country, spoken word, song, traditional and contemporary sounds.
The celebration will be hosted by the Richmond Youth Service Agency's Pathways Aboriginal Centre.

 Minoru Cultural Centre
Richmond, BC, V6Y1R8

2 Yes
0 Maybe

Jun 08 18 2008 7:00 PM
Eden Robinson at the Vancouver Public Library

2 attended (est.) – No rating yet

Eden Robinson

Location: Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 W. Georgia St., Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye room
The author reads from her novel, "Blood Sports", which explores the brutal edges of complicity, where silence is lethal, and secrets can pull down everyone you love. The story is set in Vancouver's Downtown East Side.
(Free admission. We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of The Canada Council for the Arts)
Date: Wednesday Jun 18, 2008
Vancouver Public Library

 Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Vancouver, BC, V6B6B1

2 Yes
0 Maybe