This past weekend was a flurry of festivals and events split between Councillor Kerry Jang and myself to give the greetings, cut the ribbons and thank the volunteers for putting on fantastic events for their communities.
A short summary: East Vancouver Farmers Market, Marpole Community Days, East Vancouver Area Scouts 2nd Annual Picnic, Party in the Park for First United's 125 Anniversary, Fan Zones on Granville and Hamilton, Chinatown Night Market opening, Italian Day on the Drive, the Fair in the Square, and Love Vancouver, Love Your Planet.
There's also a list of festivals I didn't make it too. Even with transit, biking and car pooling you can only get to so many things that start at the same time.
No Fun City? Not any more! Between all the events, I got to spend the weekend with 250,000 people enjoying sunshine, great food, new information and of course an excellent hockey game.
On top of all that the City of Vancouver hosted it's first ever Housing Unconference this past Saturday. No balloons or face-painting but alot of creative citizen-led ideas on dealing with the chronic housing affordability challenge for Vancouver residents.
Cleaning out my bag this morning, I have a stack of brochures on great ideas and...more festivals, events and happenings coming up in Vancouver!
Some items you might be interested in:
Modelled after a San Patrignano in Italy, Woodwynn is a "193 acre organic farm for our therapeutic community for the homeless, offering an opportunity to change peoples’ lives with educational and work programmes based on responsibility, dignity, independence and the principles of peer-to-peer help."
A web-based marketing & communications program created to facilitate the financing, marketing and sales of affordable homeownership projects.
NOTE: User name is Friend, password is Friend.
Creative Tech Summer Camps for Inner-City Children
W2 is offering their second annual summer camp program where kids age 8-14 to learn about DJing, VJing, letterpress, digital photo, community TV, community radio, social media and more. A girls only stream is also available. (note: can't find anything on W2 website yet but if you email info@creativetechnology.org you can get information.
A nifty project which has four themed maps (Shopping, Attractions, Public Art and Parks) on how to visit popular downtown destinations by bike. A joint project of the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition and Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association
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