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May 1, 2015 to May 3, 2015 – City-wide, metro-wide Vancouver, BC Vancouver is a city full of engaged citizens initiating creative place-making and community building interventions throughout our diverse neighbourhoods. As the city grows Jane's Walk V… Organized by Elizabeth Mackenzie, City Organizer | Type: all
April 23, 2015 at 7pm to May 28, 2015 at 8:30pm – Strathcona Community Centre Please join us for the Spring 2015 instalment of this popular Village Vancouver series. April 23 - rescheduled to April 30th Water Kefir: home-made fermented sodas May 28 Spring Slaw! Fermented Veget… Organized by Ross Moster (VV Neighbourhood Food Networks) and Lauren Brown (Strathcona CC Food Securtiy Program) | Type: strathcona, workshops
April 26, 2015 to May 3, 2015 – BC Place Stadium + Various Venues New hands-on workshops, exclusive guest chef dinners and special events throughout the city. EAT! Vancouver at BC Place May 1st to May 3rd with over 250 exhibitors including celebrity chefs celebrati… Organized by | Type: festival
May 2, 2015 to May 3, 2015 – Stanley Park Ecology Centre Weekend workshop, May 2 &3, 2015 Stanley Park Ecology Centre, Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver, B.C. Reconnecting to Life/Work that Reconnects workshops are transformative group experiences des… Organized by Heather Talbot | Type: vancouver, workshop
May 2, 2015 at 10am to May 30, 2015 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 50 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
May 2, 2015 at 1pm to May 3, 2015 at 3pm – Quebec Manor in Mount Pleasant Join us for an Architectural Heritage and Human Scale Urbanism Walk in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver's original suburb. Find out about the urban design principles that shaped the evolution of this histor… Organized by Louis Villegas, Urbanist | Type: mount, pleasant, walk, history, community, architecture, planning
May 3, 2015 from 10am to 12pm – VV Permaculture plot at Cottonwood Community Garden Join us for our weekly work parties (mostly on weekends) at our plot at Cottonwood Community Garden. It's fun, it's educational - no experience necessary, we teach you. RSVP here or to ross@villagev… Organized by Ross Moster, Jill Ineson, and Village Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks | Type: strathcona, permaculture, gardening, potluck, learning opportunity, cottonwood community garden
May 3, 2015 from 10am to 12pm – VCC Clark Skytrain Station This route could accommodate a ground level Light Rail Transit system at a lower cost and a more rapid construction program than a Broadway Subway.This bike tour is 7 kilometers long, and will cover… Organized by Adam Fitch | Type: walk, history, planning, transit
May 3, 2015 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm – Kits, please RSVP for location Village maintains Green Street garden space in Kits. Join us for our weekly work party. New volunteers welcome. No experience necessary. RSVP/info: ross@villagevancouver.ca. Organized by Ross Moster and Kits Village | Type: kits, gardening, collaborative gardens, community gardens, green, spaces", permaculture, pollinators
May 3, 2015 from 1:30pm to 4pm – Kits, near beach Our 5th season. Volunteers welcome, no experience necessary. Please contact for us for details at ross@villagevancouver.ca. Organized by Kits Village Collaborative Garden | Type: kits, gardening, collaborative garden, community garden
May 3, 2015 from 3pm to 7pm – Kits, near beach We've folded over one thousand seed packets at our previous work parties, and will now be filling them with seeds. New volunteers welcome and you don't need to know anything about seed saving to help… Organized by Ross Moster and VV Seed Savers | Type: kits, seeds, seed saving, seed libraries, community resilience, earth day, potluck
May 3, 2015 from 4pm to 6pm – Jericho Sailing Centre This tour unearths the history of Habitat Forum, a major public event at Jericho Beach that was part of the UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements held in Vancouver in 1976. This was the largest… Organized by Lindsay Brown | Type: walk, history, planning, transit
May 3, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Kits We currently have two dinner groups. Our 1st group started in 2012, and our 2nd group started last Spring. Typically, one or two households take turns creating a meal for everyone else in the group o… Organized by Ross Moster and Kits Village | Type: kits, dinner group, potluck
May 3, 2015 from 7pm to 8:30pm – Kits, near beach Join us for a potluck following our seed packet work party. Bring some food or drink to share! Organized by Ross Moster, Laura Lee Coles, and Kits Village | Type: kits, potluck
Village engages individuals, neighbourhoods & organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities & have fun doing it. Join us!
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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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