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March 16, 2014 to April 7, 2014 – Lower Mainland Neighbourhood Small Grants and Greenest City Small Grants Deadline for Applications April 7th Visit www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca for more information or to apply Neighbourhood Small Grants are fun… Organized by Danielle Gauld | Type: grassroots, grants
February 7, 2014 at 6:30pm to May 27, 2014 at 6:30pm – Public Talk: Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Placemaking pioneer Mark Lakeman returns to Vancouver to anchor and guide a 9-month placemaking course designed to empower and facilitate community leaders in creatively reimagining the way space can… Organized by Dana Wilson | Type: village building
March 1, 2014 at 10am to March 29, 2014 at 12pm – Gordon Neighbourhood House and West End Community Centre Every Tuesday and Saturday our volunteers receive food scraps from hundreds of the 45,000 residents in the West End. The take since June 2012 now totals over 40 tonnes of food scraps for composting t… Organized by West End Neighbourhood Food Network, Recycling Alternative and Village Vancouver | Type: west end, compost, food scraps
March 3, 2014 at 6pm to May 13, 2014 at 9pm – Victoria Series: 3787 Cedar Hill Rd., Vancouver Series: 375 West 10th Ave. VV is pleased to be a sponsor of this series. For more information: http://spiritoftheland.ca/ Registration: http://spiritoftheland.ca/registration/ All evenings run from 6-9 pm. Whether we are of I… Organized by | Type: vancouver and victoria
March 16, 2014 from 11am to 5:30pm – Heart Gardens, Roberts Creek, BC "lets not embrace sustainability because we fear the future lets embrace sustainability because we love the things we love about the present" - Larry Santoyo Ground Level With Delvin Solkinson and… Organized by Delvin Solkinson | Type: activation
March 16, 2014 from 12pm to 2pm – West End Community Centre, Barclay Room Share some good food and conversation with neighbours. Bring something yummy to share and a cup, bowl spoon, etc. if you're able to, and find out the latest with the West End Neighbourhood Food Netwo… Organized by Ross Moster, WENFN Coordinator | Type: west end, potluck, wenfn
March 16, 2014 from 2pm to 4pm – West End Community Centre, Barclay Room Come learn about all the tasty plants that happily grow in our climate without any human intervention! We'll cover first nations favourites as well as some introduced but naturalized species. Instruc… Organized by Ross Moster, WENFN Coordinator | Type: west end, workshop, native edibles, wenfn
March 16, 2014 from 3pm to 5pm – The Canadian Memorial Church Paul Stamets has been a dedicated mycologist for over thirty years. Over this time, he has discovered and coauthored four new species of mushrooms, and pioneered countless techniques in the field of… Organized by Banyen Books | Type: public, talk
March 16, 2014 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm – Mary's place - call for details I make a giant pot of vegan soup. You come and enjoy. No need to bring anything - but if you do something that can still make for a casual, quick dinner. If you're coming to Storytelling afterwards -… Organized by Mary Bennett contact maryinvancouver@gmail.com | Type: kitsilano, dinner, story, vegan
March 16, 2014 from 7pm to 9pm – St Mark's theme celebrating World Storytelling Day with storytellers from: ....North Shore: Mike Ewan; Abegael Fisher-Lang ....... Vancouver: Jennifer Martin ............Richmond: Gael Whelan Guest Speaker ..… Organized by Mary Gavan | Type: storytelling, in, kits
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Interested in getting involved or volunteering with Village Vancouver? check out http://www.villagevancouver.ca/page/volunteering-1.
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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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