Saturday March 28, 2009
10am to 9pm
All events are free admission
Oppenheimer Park and various other locations in the
Japantown and Powell Street neighbourhoods
Celebration of Japantown’s multicultural neighbourhood with history walking tours, displays and story sharing, daytime activities, a procession, ceremonies, performances, and open artist studios.
Read the event programme as a PDF
Produced by Powell Street Festival Society, Tonari Gumi, Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall and Vancouver Moving Theatre, in association with a host of community partners www.vjls-jh.com or call 604-628-5672
Dear Friends, Neighbours & Colleagues,
The Strathcona Business Improvement Association is proud to present Sustainability 2.0 – the Evolution of Green, building on the success of the first Sustainability 1.0: the Upside of Greening your Business. Learn how collaboration can create new opportunities and build community to help you go green.
The event will feature keynote speaker Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, and a panel of local businesses that represent different stages of green. Learn from businesses that are taking their first green steps and others who have been incorporating green strategies for years. Discover how to collaborate with other businesses on sustainability initiatives and get access to resources on programs for waste/recycling management, transportation, material exchange network, and energy conservation.
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Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art – provides a platform for contemporary Asian art to engage, educate, and stimulate a reflective experience and provoke critical thought.
Another City is a collaborative exhibition on the human condition in response to global cultural change and physical transfiguration of the urban environment. Curator Makiko Hara brings work of artists Masashi Ogura, Yoshihiro Suda and Paul de Guzman.
Exhibition March 14 to April 25, 2009
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm
2 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1G6
604-683-8326, www.centrea.org, info@centrea.org
Visits to the satellite venues are only available by taking the Walking Tours on Saturdays, March 14, April 11, and April 25 – 4 pm to 5 pm.
Meet at Centre A.
Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art – provides a platform for contemporary Asian art to engage, educate, and stimulate a reflective experience and provoke critical thought.
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Vancouver Arts and Cultures Forum
Creative Conversation
The Future of Old Vancouver
Old Vancouver is Gastown, Chinatown, Strathcona, Hastings,Victory Square, and Japantown.
Heritage Vancouver welcomes guest speakers Ray Spaxman, Aprodicio Laquian, and Jan Sircus to an evening of imagining a future for Vancouver’s historic neighbourhoods.
Ray will tell us about current urban planning that could alter Old Vancouver’s future. Prod will talk about Asian cities that have created vibrant neighbourhoods from run-down historic areas. Jan will talk about how successful place making begins with the story.
This is an opportunity to contribute ideas to shaping Vancouver’s historic neighbourhoods and creating a future for our heritage.
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Pre-fabricated modular homes could be temporary now, permanent later
Michael Geller
Special to the Vancouver Sun
Should really poor people be living next to really rich people in expensive housing on Vancouver’s waterfront?
This is a question on many peoples’ minds following the recent revelations about the cost of the southeast False Creek social housing.
But it was also a question being asked in 1975 when plans were being completed for the first phase redevelopment of the south shore of False Creek.
And it was asked again in the early 1990s when the Westin Bayshore Hotel parking lot was rezoned for a new community.
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Government lacks clear profile of population
Jonathan Fowlie
Vancouver Sun
The provincial government currrently has no accurate method to track the number of homeless people in the province.
The provincial government currrently has no accurate method to track the number of homeless people in the province.
The B.C. government lacks a comprehensive plan to deal with homelessness, Auditor-General John Doyle said in a highly critical report released Thursday, adding that he believes homelessness in B.C. is getting worse.
Photograph by
Ward Perrin
Vancouver Sun
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