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Job – F/T Managing Director & P/T Special Events Coordinator with Kwi Awt Stelmexw. Due: Jan 11, 2017
Hi all. I’m the founder and programming director for Kwi Awt Stelmexw — an arts & education organization based in Vancouver, BC. We’re a Coast Salish non-profit focused on advancing the cultural identity of the Squamish Peoples.
Kwi Awt Stelmexw is building a team of leaders who can make a difference in the Squamish Peoples’ lives — it’s a big job and we’re looking for super passionate, strategic, and dedicated people to make the dreams a reality.
The Squamish Peoples are rising. After decades of dispossession then neglect, the Squamish Peoples are charting their own path forward. Our fundraising campaigns, our language programs, our arts projects, and everything in between is for the betterment of the Squamish Peoples.
At Kwi Awt Stelmexw, you’ll work with a team of engaged, hard-working, and passionate colleagues showing the community and the world what is possible for advancing the cultural identity of the Squamish Peoples, in a flexible, collaborative, and dream-seeking environment. We are hiring for:
F/T Managing Director (6 month contract with potential to renew)
P/T Special Events Coordinator (6 month contract with potential to renew)
Learn more here: https://www.kwiawtstelmexw.com/about/hiring/
The Managing Director is really about finding an operations/manager person to work with me in building this emerging organization. There are very few Coast Salish-run and Coast Salish-focused non-profits in Vancouver and we’re looking to grow our team to support our work. If you could pass this along to help us spread the word, we’d be super grateful. Deadline to apply is Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 at 5pm.
Please feel free to message me if you or anyone you know is interested in learning more.
Thanks!
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Khelsilem
Programming Director
Kwi Awt Stelmexw
PO Box 57145 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C., V5K 5G6
c: 604-809-6282 | m: 778-987-8809
New Year’s Eve Vancouver: 2016 Countdown Festival and Fireworks
New Year’s Eve Vancouver: 2016 Countdown Festival and Fireworks
“We are excited for our community to ring in the New Year surrounded by local talent, Vancouver’s natural landscape and, of course, family and friends,” said Charles Gauthier, president of the not-for-profit Vancouver New Year’s Eve Celebration Society, in a statement.
“We anticipate the same joyful atmosphere experienced at past community celebrations that have taken place along Canada Place Way, such as Canada Day. With the help of our partners, the community’s best interests have been top of mind during all stages of our planning.”
The initiative to revive Vancouver’s annual New Year’s Eve festivities was launched in 2012 by Vancity Buzz, which also created the New Year’s Eve Celebration Society. Members and other founding sponsors of the organization include the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, Port Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Convention Centre, Tourism Vancouver, Starbucks Coffee, Vanterre Projects, Boughton Law Corporation, Burrard Landing, and BDO Canada.
Other partners and sponsors include Concord Pacific, City of Vancouver, 102.7 The PEAK, WestPark, Herschel, CF Pacific Centre, Tom Lee Music, Nelson Square, Global B.C., 24 Hours, Molson, Granville Island Brewing, PCI Developments Corp., Pinetree Creative, AntiSocial Media Solutions, Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, Brix Media Co., The Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver, Terminal City Club, and EventCorp Services Inc.
Free Concert
Programming at the 102.7 The PEAK Stage, located on Canada Place Way, will focus on the participants of The PEAK Performance Project. Over the last seven years, the program has educated, promoted, developed and launched the careers of some of British Columbia’s up and coming artists.
Five bands will take the stage beginning at 8 p.m.:
- 8:00 to 8:25 p.m. – Bed of Stars (2015 Peak Performance Winner)
- 9:15 to 9:40 p.m. – The Matinee
- 9:55 to 10:25 p.m. – We Are The City
- 10:40 to 11:10 p.m. – Dear Rouge
- 11:25 to 11:59 p.m. – Current Swell
Prior to the band performances, there will be DJs and multicultural performances by First Nations, Kin Fung Athletic Group, and Vancouver Okinawa Taiko.
Two Fireworks Displays
Early Eve Countdown Fireworks
There will be an Early Eve countdown event from the 102.7 The PEAK Stage, coinciding with the East Coast countdowns. The early countdown provides families with young children with a chance to celebrate New Year’s revelry.
A three-minute-long high-aerial fireworks display at 9 p.m. will conclude the Early Eve program.
Midnight Countdown Fireworks
The celebrations to mark the arrival of 2016 will conclude with an 11-minute, high-aerial fireworks display at the stroke of midnight. There will be also be a final countdown from the 102.7 The PEAK Stage.
The Midnight Fireworks, presented by WestPark, are synchronized to a soundtrack, which will be broadcasted on live radio at 102.7 The PEAK FM. For those celebrating the New Year from home, Global B.C. will be broadcasting live from the event.
Best Fireworks Viewing Locations
Similar to Canada Day, both fireworks displays will be launched from a barge anchored in the middle of Coal Harbour – just west of the Canada Place pier and north of the Vancouver Convention Centre’s West Building.
Canada Place Way by the 102.7 The PEAK Stage has been deemed the best location to view the fireworks, given that it will also include a countdown and fireworks experience with the soundtrack.
Please note that the fireworks are not visible from English Bay and Kitsilano.
Free Public Transit
All public transit services – buses, SeaBus, SkyTrain, and West Coast Express – in Metro Vancouver will be free to encourage revellers to stay off the roads after celebratory drinking. Transit will be free beginning at 5 p.m. on December 31 until 5 a.m. on January 1.
In addition to free fares, all three SkyTrain lines and SeaBus late-night services will be extended by one hour. The last trains and ferry will depart Waterfront Station after 2 a.m.
Trains will operate more frequently to handle the surge in traffic traveling to parties and the downtown celebration.
Buses will operate on their regular weekday schedule on New Year’s Eve and additional late-night trips will be made on a number of routes.
For the full New Year’s Eve transit schedule, click here.
Road Closures
Canada Place Way between Howe and Burrard streets will be closed to vehicle traffic beginning at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 30 to allow for the set-up of the festival. However, the route will remain open for local access to parkades and the hotels in the area. Additional restrictions could be put in place in the evening due to large crowds.
New Year’s Eve Vancouver 2016
Where: Canada Place Way and Coal Harbour, Downtown Vancouver
When: 6 p.m. Thursday, December 31, 2015 to 12:20 a.m. January 1, 2016
- NYE Vancouver Festival: 6 p.m. to 12:20 a.m.
- CF Pacific Centre Lounge: 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
- Early Eve Countdown Fireworks: 9 p.m.
- Midnight Countdown Fireworks: 12 a.m.
Chan, Kenneth. (2015, December 22). New Year’s Eve Vancouver. VancityBuzz. Retrieved From: http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/12/new-years-eve-vancouver-fireworks-festival-schedule-road-closures/
