ECO-ARTS SALON

Community Empowerment in the Midst of Global Environmental Crisis

Oliver Kellhammer, land artist, permaculture teacher, activist, and writer, is speaking on Wednesday June 22, as part of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver’s 2011 Eco-Arts Salon Series.

What:    Botanical Interventions - Open Source Landscape and Community Repair,

Artist:   Oliver Kellhammer

When:   Wednesday June 22 from 7-9:00pm

Where: Roundhouse Community Art and Recreation Centre Room B

Admission – FREE

Oliver’s botanical interventions and public art projects demonstrate nature's surprising ability to recover from damage. His work facilitates the processes of environmental regeneration by engaging the botanical and socio-political underpinnings of the landscape, taking such forms as small-scale urban eco-forestry, inner city community agriculture and the restoration of eroded railway ravines. His process is essentially anti-monumental - as his interventions integrate into the ecological and cultural communities that form around them, his role as artist becomes increasingly obscured. He describes what he does as a kind of catalytic model-making, which lives on as a vehicle for community empowerment while demonstrating methods of positive engagement with the global environmental crisis. Oliver is presenting in conjunction with instructing a week long field study course through Continuing Studies at Emily Carr. Website: http://www.oliverk.org/

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver greatly appreciates the support of Roundhouse Community Art and Recreation Centre, City of Vancouver, BC Arts Council of Vancouver, Province of BC and the support of its members, volunteers and individual donors.

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For more information: Contact Oliver Kellhammer 917-743-0126 or okellhammer@gmail.com

For general information: Mary Bennett, Administrator, 604-682-0010/ 604-617-0142 mary@cacv.ca

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