Arts, Culture, & Heritage

Help Wanted with ISCA Newsletter

The INDIGENOUS SPORT COUNCIL(ALBERTA) needs your assistance in promoting the young athletes, coaches and community builders within your communities.

The ISCA will post these profiles on our website at http://www.aboriginalsports.org

We need the names and profile of these individuals outlining...

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Good bye to Carolyn Mead…

We are sad to announce that as the result of her husband's new job in Nanaimo, BC, Carolyn Mead will be leaving her position with ACE Communities.

While Carolyn planted a solid foot (and a garden!) here in Alberta, she left a part of her heart on the island and is happy to be moving "home".
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ACE SESSIONS AT THE ARPA 2010 CONFERENCE

A reminder that the next ARPA Conference and Energize Workshop will take place October 21-23 at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge.

ACE Communities will be hosting the pre-conference session: "The Power and Promise of Recreation in Aboriginal Communities" on Thursday, another session focusing on...

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Updated TREX Map from the AFA

October Alberta Foundation for the Arts TREX Map now available!

The AFA TREX Map has been updated for October - visit the map at http://www.affta.ab.ca/travelling-exhibition.aspx to see if there's a travelling visual arts exhibition in your community

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Unifying Alberta’s Quality of Life Sector: From silos to synergy

Consider all the not-for-profits and community groups across Alberta striving to make this province the best possible place to live. Add the many government agents mandated to balance competing interests for the good of everyone who lives here. More than ever, all these actors need to work...

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September Update

SEPTEMBER UPDATE

In this issue:
1. LOCAL TOWN HERO HONOURED IN KILLAM
2. SHOPPING ONLINE?
3. GROW YOURSELF: UPCOMING ACE WORKSHOPS
4. COMMUNITY ACES
5. BENEFITS DATABANK
6. SOGO ACTIVE PHASE 2
7. SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
8. ACE SESSIONS AT THE ARPA 2010 CONFERENCE
9. RECREATION IN...

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Volunteer Opportunity - Artists on the Wards Program

The Friends Arts in Healthcare Program is seeking volunteer visual, literary and musical artists for our Artists On The Wards Program. Working with adult acute-care patients at the University of Alberta Hospital, volunteers will engage adult patients in bedside creative activities to alleviate...

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Call for Performers - Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation

Building cross- cultural understanding through coffee shop musical performances

CMEF plans to harness the power of music in building cultural understanding by organizing a series of coffee shop musical performances by Edmonton artists representing a variety of ethnicities.

The series starts...

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Latest Meeting Notes for recreation practioners in Aboriginal communities

Thanks to those who were able to join us on the latest conference call to discuss recreation, sports, and arts and culture in Aboriginal communities. We learned a lot about the opportunities and the challenges in your communities! The link below will take you to the meeting summary which includes...

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Community Spirit Program

The Community Spirit Program 2010-11 donation grant is now open. The application deadline is December 31, 2010. The program is made up of two components - a donation grant and a charitable tax credit. The goal of the program is to increase individual charitable giving. The program is...

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