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Friday, May 9, 2014

Featured Event

*West End MAY Food Scrap Drop Spots at Gordon Neighbourhood House & WE Community Centre

May 3, 2014 at 10am to May 31, 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

*Co-creating a City Repair Village Building Work & Playshop

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
*Caring for All Creation: Land, Water and our Communities -- Mar 3/4: From Fear and Apathy to Active-Hope and Love

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
*VV Spring 2014 Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community Series

April 10, 2014 at 7pm to May 13, 2014 at 8:30pm – Strathcona Community Centre Please join us for the Spring 2014 installment of this popular series. Thursday, April 10 Grow Your Own Sprouts and Grass Workshop with Nikoo Bouromond Sunday, May 4 VV/The Hello Project Community Po… Organized by Ross Moster (VV Neighbourhood Food Networks) and Lauren Brown (Strathcona CC Food Securtiy Program) | Type: strathcona, workshops, potluck
Garden Group in South Burnaby seeks members

April 20, 2014 to May 27, 2014 – South Burnaby A wonderful little Garden Group in South Burnaby may have a few spots open this year. We share one large garden (1000 sq ft) with a 200 sq ft greenhouse, share the costs, the work, and the fabulous o… Organized by Chris Mann | Type: south, burnaby
Free BEE film screenings at the Science World!

April 24, 2014 at 2pm to May 22, 2014 at 7pm – Science world Free bee film screenings at the TELUS World of Science! Saving The Life Keepers - The new science of sustainable beekeeping. As part of Green Month, the documentary, SAVING THE LIFE KEEPERS from MON… Organized by Jocelyn Demers | Type: greater, vancouver
*Can You Dig It Community Garden Coalition Series - 1st event: Inclusive Gardens with Finding Home

April 25, 2014 at 7pm to June 12, 2014 at 9pm – Various Free sharing events for community gardens to connect, learn and share best practices about community gardens that are inclusive and welcoming, animated, growing, safe, and self managed. Each session… Organized by Cinthia and Can You Dig ItI | Type: renfrew-collingwood, mt. pleasant, burnaby, kits, surrey, sharing events, gardening, community gardens
Gardening Position with i-DIG gardening

May 5, 2014 at 6pm to May 20, 2014 at 7pm – New Westminster Hi there! I am Tracey Loslo, chief dig at i-DIG gardening. We are a very small, award winning, landscape design, property rejuvenation, and maintenance company who is looking for a new crew member. W… Organized by Tracey Loslo | Type: experienced, gardener, required
*100 in 1 Day Vancouver Workshops

May 8, 2014 at 6pm to June 4, 2014 at 9pm – Vancouver Village Vancouver is pleased to be a Community Partner for 100 in 1 Day Vancouver On June 7, Vancouver will host 100 in 1 Day Create an intervention that will make Vancouver a better place. What if h… Organized by Presented by Evergreen Cityworks | Type: vancouver, urban interventions
*Planning Meeting for VV Demo Sustainable Village on Car Free Day

May 9, 2014 from 10am to 11:30am – Vancouver, TBD If you would like to help organize our demo village, please let us know. Organized by Ross Moster and VV | Type: vancouver, planning, car free day