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McBridePark Field House Residency Blog/VV Newsletter

McBride Park Field House Residency Blog

The Village Vancouver residency at McBride Fieldhouse is generously supported by the Vancouver Park Board's Fieldhouse Activation Program which provides project space and access to parks to foster community-engaged activity that focuses on arts, culture, sports, environment, local food and social encounters.     

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The Transition Movement

Village Vancouver is part of a global movement and integrated network in 45 countries of:

Want a quick peak into a bible of Transition, The Transition Companion?

Click on this image to open the book and you'll be able to read several chapters.

Get involved

Have a desire to advance ecological sustainability, community resiliency, regeneration & self-reliance, and social well-being in Vancouver? To connect with others in your community to create positive local responses to things like climate disruption, depletion of natural assets and economic instability and inequity? Grow more food? Learn how to fix your bike or prepare for an emergency? Get your Permaculture Design Certificate? Share a meal or swap stuff with your neighbours? Save heritage seeds? Engage in placemaking in your neighbourhood ? Participate in a more localized economy and consume less? Bioremediate your community?

Check out our Villages, Groups, Networks, and Projects -- including Neighbourhood Food Networks -- VV's centres of creativity where constructive dialogue leads to connection, collaboration, and inspired action in fun and satisfying ways!

We run on people power - join our website and/or  the Village Vancouver Transition Society and get involved. Don't wait for an invitation; find folks on your own and "grab the reins." (We can help! - contact projects@villagevancouver.ca.)

News from The Grist

 

                                 Fall Workshops & Events

December

December 1, Sunday: WE Garden Club Holiday Celebration

   1:00 PM - 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre

December 2, Monday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

December 3, Tuesday: Holiday Workshop: Edible Holiday Gifts in Mason Jars

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

December 4, Wednesday: Holiday Workshop: DIY Crochet Dishcloths

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

December 5, Thursday: Holiday Workshop: DIY Sugar Scrubs and Bath Salts

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre

December 6, Friday: Balcony, Container and Small Space Gardening

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

December 8, Sunday: Holiday Workshop: DIY Beeswax Wraps and Zero Waste in the Kitchen

   11:00 AM - 1:00 PM at False Creek Community Centre

December 9, Monday: Holiday Workshop: DIY Crochet Dishcloths

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

December 11, Wednesday: Holiday Workshop: Edible Holiday Gifts in Mason Jars

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

December 19, Thursday: Recycling Depot

   6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

Winter Workshops & Events

January 20, Monday: DIY Beeswax Wraps and Zero Waste in the Kitchen

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at False Creek Community Centre

January 22, Wednesday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

January 23, Thursday: Gardening in a Changing Climate

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre

January 24, Friday: Growing Superfoods

   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

January 26, Sunday: DIY Sugar Scrubs and Bath Salts

   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at West End Community Centre

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Village engages individuals, neighbourhoods & organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities & have fun doing it. Join us!

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Latest Activity

Alicia Wei is now a member of Village Vancouver
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*Depth of Field: Film Screening and Community Event at Community Hall, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House

March 21, 2024 from 5pm to 8pm
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*Depth of Field: Film Screening and Community Event at Community Hall, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House

March 21, 2024 from 5pm to 8pm
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Ongoing Activities

Interested in getting involved or volunteering with Village Vancouver? check out http://www.villagevancouver.ca/page/volunteering-1.

Regular activities:

Interested in participating in a VV garden? We have collaborative gardens/garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods. Contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.ca. Gardening now in progress. New gardeners welcome (space allowing).

Kits Village Recycling Depot (Kits Community Centre) Next depot: Thursday, June 15th

Main St. Village monthly gatherings (1st Tuesdays Little Mountain Neighbourhood House) Currently on hold due to COVID

Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd Wednesdays VV McBride Park Fieldhouse (sometimes elsewhere) Next meetup: Special date Thursday, July 29th

West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July and August 4th Thursdays - July 22nd and August 26th.

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