Vancouver 125

Community Neighbourhood and Arts Development Grants Program supports artists and community-driven collaborations, cultural events and parades which celebrate and promote Vancouver's unique communities through arts and cultural activities ranging from amateur to professional practices. Next deadline - Friday March 2nd, 2012. http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cultural//grants/community.htm

Open call for Working World: Diversity and Employment in Metro Vancouver, an exhibit of local photography put on by SPARC BC at the Museum of Vancouver. Show us what Metro Vancouver’s working world looks like to you. Submit your photojournalistic style image, photo description, CV and artist statement by January 6, 2012 to have your work selected for display. Selected artists will be awarded for their contributions (from $100 to $1,500). http://www.museumofvancouver.ca//sparc-your-imagination-ph.

Pi Theatre podcasts their Vancouver 125 project - four short audio plays written by five of Vancouver's most exciting contemporary playwrights! http://pitheatre.com/visions-of-vancouver-live-recordings/

SubTerrain's Vancouver 125 issue is 136 pages of Vancouver-inspired poetry, past & present: http://www.subterrain.ca

Interested in a look-back at Vancouver 125 projects this year? Browse this collection of videos: vimeo.com/channels/268674

Here is a list of highlights for the final month of Vancouver 125 celebrations: ow.ly/7LGJU Lots to see & do!

'Polar Bear: Native to Vancouver' by Tony Pantages runs to Dec 18 on Canada Line video screens: ow.ly/7QWiS

The Grey Cup is back in Vancouver for the 15th time. Here’s a look at a few of the early Grey Cup festivities in this city from Vancouver Archives: http://www.vancouverarchives.ca//the-grey-cup-in-vancouver/

Free Vancouver 125 celebration tonight: Heritage Vancouver launches the Vancouver's Interactive Building Permit Database, 7pm at the Vancouver Archives (1150 Chestnut St at Kits Point): ow.ly/7DcVq

History buffs, check out the new 'Vancouver In Time' app from the Canadian Encyclopedia: http://blog.thecanadianencyclopedia.com//presenting-vanco/

Author Michael Turner on D.M. Fraser's short fiction Class Warfare, one of the ten classic Vancouver books reissued for Vancouver's 125th birthday. http://www.geist.com/articles/making-stuff-up

Come and Dance: An Aboriginal Dance Festival - on this weekend (Nov.16-19): http://www.celebratevancouver125.ca//come-and-dance-an-ab/

Soul Gardens is a community public art project led by W2 Community Media Arts that investigates the cultural history of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) as told through stories of food, gardening, and community. Muralists: Jordan Bent, Indigo, Scott Sueme, Melanie Shambach, Take5.... Researchers: Wayde Compton, Lani Russwurm, Anne Marie Slater, Sid Tan and Cease Wyss. The mural is located on a wall of the Astoria Hotel building and can be viewed at the intersection of East Hastings Street and Hawks Avenue.