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April 1st to April 14th, 1982

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by Ian Hunter

You’re young. You’re
bored with school and
stifled by the environment
around you. You want to
learn, but you don’t know
what. You want to live, but
you’re not sure what really
living is. You want to
travel, but you have no
money.

You don’t have to be
alone. If you are between
17 and 21 and.are willing to
try living with other people
of your age, but of different
backgrounds; and to work
on community projects
across Canada for a dollar a
day, Katimavik may be
what you need.

Katimavik is the Inuit
word for ‘meeting place’.
The idea behind Katimavik
is ‘‘an action learning
place... an exchange of

giving and receiving.’’
What this means is that

‘you, aS a participant, live

and work with 10 other
participants over a nine-
month period, learning a
‘conserver lifestyle’ (rather
than the materialist life
most people have) and
building an awareness of
the variety within Canada.
There has been some
concern: that Katimavik is
really a cheap ‘make-work’
program for the govern-
ment. Katimavik publicist
Susan Day counters this
charge, noting the program
is non-profit and funded by
the Secretary of State.
‘“‘We are in no way
connected to any labour
core or any job-creation
program or anything like
that. The work skills are
only one aspect of the
Katimavik program, and
who we serve are the.

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by Ian Hunter

Feelings of united friend-
ship prevailed at the Pete
Seeger concert last March
6th at the Q. E. Theatre.

The occasion was the Ash
Street Players ‘‘A Salute to
Peace’’. The Ash Street
Players are a local group of
folk musicians who got to-
gether about a year ago to
perform a cabaret called
‘“‘Something to Sing A-
bout’’.

The Ash Street Players
consist of Harry Aoki, Char-
lotte Diamond, Tommy
Hawken and Steve Gidora.
Gidora is a music student at
Douglas and also ran for
the mayor of Surrey in the
last elections.

The ASPs decided to stay
together to perform four
special concerts held this
year.

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of these. Next will come
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the Q. E. Theatre). Robin-
son is best known as the
composer of the now legen-
dary leader who was un-
justly hung. In his early
70s, Robinson has played
with such groups as Peter,
Paul and Mary, Three Dog
Night and the Weavers.

The ‘Ash Street Players
will be backing him up, as
they did with Seeger, with
their full folksy sound and
warm spirit.

This concert will be ‘‘A
Salute to Labour’’.

The Ash Street Players
will also be presenting a
salute to Paul Robeson with
Odetta on May 16th and
17th at the Q. E. The first
show is sold out.

Robinson is well known
as a black civil rights work-
er and singer who was
called up before the House
Committee on Un-American
Activities during the fascist
fifties.

The Other Press

communities who request
our presence.’’

She adds ‘‘the program is
one of mutual benefit for
the participants and for
different communities in
‘Canada.”’

The activities range from
reconstructing historical
buildings in Newfoundland
to tagging salmon in the
Yukon. The projects chosen
must have clear goals and
concrete results, be educa-
tional, serve the needs of
the community, and the
project must not take jobs
away from others.

Katimavik has several
goals which separate it
from other youth projects in
North America. These goals
include work skills, mean-
ingful work experience, se-
cond language learning, bil-
letting (which is part of
being involved with the
communities), active leisure

DOA CHANGESLINE-UP_

Insex played with DOA and particularly pleased
our roving reporter Dan Hilborn.

By Dan Hilborn

It has been a long time
since | last saw Vancouver’s
most popular ‘‘punk rock’’
band DOA, but it was a

wait well worth it. To begin -

with, the band has once
again undergone personnel
changes. Dimwit, formerly
of the Subhumans, Pointed
Sticks and even DOA (that
was way back in ’78) has
returned to take the place
of Randy Rampage on bass
guitar.

Dimwit normally played
drums in. other bands, with
the notable exception of
Rude Norton, but seeing
him with his custom-made
Fury bass (it’s unusual to
see any bass guitar in
Vancouver other than the
Fender Precision) he seem-
ed well at home blasting
out DOA’s familiar hard
driving sound.

Rampage must have the
band on unfriendly terms as
Joey Shithead dedicated a
new song ‘‘Liar for Hire’’
to Randy because ‘‘he does-
n’t want to try anymore.’’

The usual black leathered
crowd, half of which was
under 16 years old, was
there with the sole intent of
enjoying themselves, just
like at any other unlicensed
gig in Vancouver, but lead
singer and songwriter Shit-
head has his usual words of
advice for the hyperactive
crowd.

Joey stopped halfway

. through the bands set to

tell the bouncers not to let
any White Power of Ku
Klux Klan people into the
hall because they had come
into the Smilin’ Buddha
several weeks earlier to

Katimavik: Come live, with us.

and group living skills.
The program is divided
between physical labour (60
per cent) and more social
activities (40 per cent).
There is a military option
offered for three months of
the program that was or-
iginally a political compro-
mise to Barney Danson,
then Minister of Defence
and Secretary of State.
According to Day, the
military option, which is
like basic army training, is
offered because 12 per cent
of the participants entering
the program request it. The

‘only difference between Ka-

timavik and military train-
ing is that you must make a
greater commitment to stay
in military training.

Day says there is a 15
per cent attrition rate in the
program with the majority
of those leaving the pro-
gram doing so after three

 

disrupt one of their shows.
' Shithead explained that
people hate each other for
no reason, then burst into
one of the band’s oldest
songs, ‘’| Hate You’’. _

Apparently Shithead feels
that a lot of his sarcastically
written songs are taken the
wrong way by listeners. He
said ‘‘this song is sarcas-
tic’’ before playing ‘’Let’s
Fuck’’.

Yet it was difficult to
miss the. point when he
dedicated a new song,
“Burn it Down’’ to prisons
and schools. Another new
composition ‘‘Let’s Wreck
the Party’’, was dedicated
to the fans of an opening
act that night, Hastily/-

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months.

Every participant, upon
completing the program,
receives an honorarium of
$1,000 (as well as the $1
per day) to help the person
back to school or work.

The application deadlines
are April 30th for projects
starting July 14; and July 2
for projects starting in Sep-
tember.

Participants are chosen
on a random basis depend-
ing on your sex, socio-
economic background and
where you live.

For more information you
can write to Katimavik’s
B.C. Regional office at 1587
West 8th Avenue, Suite
201, Vancouver, or phone
736-8991.

Beastly, a clone/spoof of
AC/DC.

It’s a reassuring feeling
to watch a band that is
obviously not overly con-
cerned with making money.
Instead, Shithead and com-
pany are content to play to
whatever people have the
good sense to come out to
see them, without the band
resorting to cheap commer-
cialism. ;

On a final note, the last
song DOA played that night
was guaranteed by Shithead
to be DOA’s first AM radio
hit, a hardcore version of
Frank Sinatra’s ‘’That’s

Life’’. Old 'Shiteyes also has
a sense of humour.

 

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