: April 1st to April 14th, 1982 7 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. Ash Street Cont’d \\ 8: “ \\ a Y, i) 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. The very successful Pete Seeger concert was the first of these. Next will come Earl Robinson (april 4th at vv i sea, teat tt rsa ri wl WM 7 — 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/- Page 7 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. .