Canada's Slum - A Globe & Mail Perspective

The Globe & Mail is looking at the DTES - offering a riveting multi-media exploration of "Canada's Slum". The material is ... provocative. A good thing. Right?

We'd appreciate your on-line participation. If that's not your thing ... consider coming to ...

On March 24 at 7 p.m. PT, The Globe, in partnership with CTV and the University of British Columbia, will bring together experts with fresh solutions for the Downtown Eastside at a public forum at UBC’s Robson Square campus.

For tickets, call toll-free 1-866-545-0016

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Tags for information about: for:vsef, Social Enterprise, Social Economy, DTES

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[Project] City Within

City Within is a citizen film project that is in development with the VSEF. We're very excited about it, and promise to share our learnings in the newsletter.

Thought it would be a good idea to share one of the ChipIn widgets being used to connect and include as many people as possible, while raising additional funds for this project.

Here's a full size version:


You can also see another on our sidebar.

If you'd like to encourage the VSEF film project, it's easy to "chip in".
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Tags for information about: for:vsef, Social Economy, Video, ChipIn

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[Project] DTES Video Diaries - Toward a Beautiful Vancouver

While the city is focused on another YouTube video. We thought today was a good time to start some thinking about a video project looking at the daily lives of Vancouverites living and working in the DTES.

More to follow ...