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Places like the Effie Arts Collective, or in this case, BeTeased Food Truck in the Shuswap - are part of a long line of community arts spaces that we have celebrated collectively time immemorial. Each year that passes the regulatory climate they operate in becomes less and less able to do so - even though our parents and grandparents - rich and poor, participated meaningfully and inclusively in their communities this way for decades.  For this reason, one needs to write letters to support food trucks so that they can host a community dance - the type of event that they have been hosting successfully for ages. I decided to include my letter as the subject of this post. -------- The girls held their hands in front of them and squirmed their fingers. The boys tapped their feet restlessly. Around the floor the old folks sat, smiling slightly, holding the children back from the floor... And the girls were damp and flushed, and they danced with open mouths and serious reverent faces, and the