*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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Anita,
Welcome to 'underground' Vancouver, a self-generated rhizomatous movement to create some semblance of community in this social and economic desert of Vancouver. Thanks for remembering the URL.
Starting just 2 years ago, we are building this on-line community to organize a wide-ranging set of activities more openly and collaboratively. Please feel free to contribute to a discussion, attend or even enter a new event, join a working group, and also join the nearest Village to yourself, which would be mine: the Main Street Neighbourhood. (Click on this link and then select JOIN in the upper right of the page.)
Our village, which is convened by Randy Chatterjee (me) and Jason Mertz, is comprised mostly of people within Mount Pleasant and Riley Park. We sometimes hold large events at Heritage Hall (Main at 15th Ave) and meet every month--usually the first Tuesday--for a potluck and workshop at Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (Main at 24th Ave). Next month it is on June 5th, and we've yet to choose the topic for the workshop. The food is always great!
Coming up really soon are several fun, community-building activities. Tomorrow (Tuesday night at 7pm) is a meeting at the Mount Pleasant School to plan a massive 'street mural' (click this link for more information). This is, on the surface, a public art project to beautify a street and slow down the traffic by painting a stream-scape onto it. 'Under the surface,' this is part of a plot actually to "daylight" the historic stream that currently runs in a culvert (pipe) under the street and could someday become a massive urban and natural water-park and playground. We hope to "demap" (decommission) the street so no cars anymore would run on it, for at least 2-3 blocks, and also thereby clean up the run-off water that otherwise pollutes False Creek.
Then, Wednesday night is a meeting and potluck dinner of the Resident's Association of Mount Pleasant (which organized the Jane's Walk) to plot the overthrow of City Council. (No, I am not kidding. This one is a tad more serious.)
Thursday night is a planning meeting for Village Vancouver's Car Free Day "Village," literally a dozen tents covering a whole block of Main Street that all fit together as a "portable community" with living room, library, solar-powered kitchen, a garden in portable planters, a chicken coop, beehives, art space, etc. Basically its 2 dozen people converging on one of 21 blocks of Main Street for "Carfree Day" on Sunday June 17 with their "stuff." To see a video of what Carfree Day is all about (made by yours truly), click here.
Finally, please update your home page ("My Page" above) with more comments about your interests or a short bio. This will help us all connect with people with similar interests in sustainability, or any other activities. Maybe find a nice photo to upload, too. :-)
Randy
randy@villagevancouver.ca