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Bob Williams and Cedar Hill Recreation Centre

Cedar Hill Recreation Centre: Its president, Bob Williams, said the council and the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, which lends the council exhibition space, received multiple calls on Wednesday and Thursday. , according to Times Colonist. The exhibition, called Dispossessed, but Defiant: Indigenous Struggles from Around the World, opened Thursday night without incident. It was organized by Toronto-based group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. The Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria will keep a controversial photo exhibition up, despite receiving indirect threats of violence and vandalism. Their voices were calm but they were indicating that, yes, they d seen the exhibition and they were concerned about it, Williams said of the callers. They were suggesting that some of the content of the exhibition could incite people to vandalism against the exhibition and the building and, worse still, that it could generate some violence in the community. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.