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All sustenance festival Events (10)
October 18Thursday
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*Check out our Assets evening at Sustenance Festival
October 18, 2012 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Roundhouse Community Centre Get your FREE ticket here: http://checkoutourassests-esli.eventbrite.com/ CHECK OUT OUR ASSETS: How could your Parks and Community Centre make your neighbourhood a better place for local food? Th… Organized by Trish Kelly and the Vancouver Food Policy Council Neighbourhood Assets Working Group, Village Vancouver and others | Type: sustenance festival
October 19Saturday
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*FREE Beginners and Advanced Seed Saving Workshops This Weekend
October 19, 2013 from 9am to 10:30am – Mt. Pleasant Community Centre - Multi Purpose Room #3 Offered by Village Vancouver as part of the Sustenance Festival. Beginners: The basics of seed saving with a focus on annual and biennial food plants. We'll identify self-pollinators and cross-pollin… Organized by Village Vancouver (Ross Moster), Maria Hunter, Leoni Croy, and Sustenance Festival | Type: mt. pleasant, main st., workshop, seed saving, community resilience, sustenance festival
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*FREE Advanced Seed Saving Workshop
October 19, 2013 from 11am to 12:30pm – Mt. Pleasant Community Centre - Multi-purpose Room #3 Offered by Village Vancouver as part of the Sustenance Festival. For those who understand the basics of seed saving. We'll discuss topics that relate to saving more challenging food plants, such as c… Organized by Village Vancouver (Ross Moster), Maria Hunter, Leoni Croy, and Sustenance Festival | Type: mt. pleasant, main st., workshop, seed saving, community resilience, sustenance festival
October 20Sunday
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*FREE Bike Maintenance Basics Workshop
October 20, 2013 from 10am to 12pm – Roundhouse Community Centre - Exhibition Hall Making 86% of trips by walking, cycling and transit has been identified as number one among the 'Top 5' biggest potential Ecological Footprint-reducing contributions being used by the Greenest City L… Organized by Village Vancouver (Ross Moster and Joy Jolie) and Sustenance Festival | Type: yaletown, downtown, workshop, bicycles, bike maintenance, lighter footprint, energy reduction, sustenance festival
October 22Tuesday
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*From Here to There 4: Cultivating a Lighter Footprint
October 22, 2013 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Museum of Vancouver 2013 SUSTENANCE FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT EVENT How can we cultivate a lighter footprint in Vancouver, especially as cheap energy sources peak and climate change intensifies? In partnership with the Van… Organized by FED-AP Working Group (Vancouver Food Policy Council and Village Vancouver) and Museum of Vancouver | Type: vancouver, fed-ap, food, energy, lighter footprint, sustenance festival, community, resilience, resiliency, transition, energy descent, edap
October 3Saturday
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*Aberthau Flax=Fibre+Food Project returns for a morning! (Free VV workshop @Sustenance Festival)
October 3, 2015 from 10am to 12pm – Aberthau Mansion (WPGCC) at Village Vancouver Permaculture Demonstration Garden (north of the Mansion, off of Marine Drive) Did you know that linen comes from flax? And that flax was one of humanity's most ancient agricultural crops, with many myths and legends about making it into cloth? Come down to the Aberthau Garden… Organized by Ross Moster, Rebecca Graham, and VV Neighbourhood Food Networks | Type: point grey, workshop, flax, fibre, food, sustenance festival
October 13Tuesday
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*Introduction to Seed Saving (Free Marpole-Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network workshop @Sustenance Festival)
October 13, 2015 from 7pm to 9pm – Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre Do you want to start saving your own seeds? In this workshop, Mel Sylvestre will provide you with the knowledge needed to understand the basic principles behind seed saving and the skills necessary t… Organized by Ross Moster, Mel Sylvestre, Marpole-Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network (Village Vancouver), and Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre | Type: marpole, oakridge, seeds, seed saving, workshop, sustenance festival
October 20Tuesday
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*Introduction to Seed Saving (Free VV workshop @Sustenance Festival) --TO BE RESCHEDULED
October 20, 2015 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Mt. Pleasant branch, Vancouver Public Library Hi all,We're going to reschedule this workshop. In the meantime, check our seed savers gathering this Saturday. Do you want to start saving your own seeds? In this workshop, Mel Sylvestre will prov… Organized by Ross Moster, Mel Sylvestre, Village Vancouver Seed Savers, and Mt.Pleasant branch, VPL | Type: mt. pleasant, seeds, seed saving, workshop, sustenance festival
October 22Saturday
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*Saturday afternoon -- Learn to Make Kimchi -- FREE workshop ($7 materials fee)
October 22, 2016 from 1pm to 3pm – Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre, Lower Lounge Update - Currently 1 space left. Learn to make kimchi: a traditional fermented Korean side dish in this free VV Marpole-Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network ElderGreens workshop facilitated by Alyssa… Organized by Marpole-Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network and VV ElderGreens | Type: marpole-oakridge, workshop, fermenting, kimchi, marpole-oakridge neighbourhood food network, sustenance festival
October 23Sunday
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*Seed Savers Club Launch
October 23, 2016 from 1pm to 4pm – Kerrisdale Community Centre, Seniors Centre Craft Room Join Kerrisdale Village Vancouver for the official launch of the Kerrisdale Community Seed Sharing Library and Seed Savers Club. Help build the seed library box and find out how the library works. Le… Organized by Kathy McKay, Keiko Honda, Ross Moster, Farrell Segall, Kerrisdale Village Vancouver, VV Neighbourhood Food Networks | Type: kerrisdale, seeds, seed library, seed savers, kerrisdale village vancouver, sustenance festival
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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
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