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May 23, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Gordon Neighbourhood House Join us for a collective neighbourhood art project! - an on-street mural on Cardero intersection between Comox and Nelson Streets. Please RSVP by email at westendmural@gmail.com. Organized by Sonja Mulabdic | Type: west, end
June 3, 2012 from 10:30am to 12pm – West End Community Centre, Stanley Court Room West End Neighbourhood Food Network, Community Food Asset Mapping Workshop -- The Potential for Food Security & Food Growing We will list up all the elements in the West End relating to food grow… Organized by Randy Helten | Type: west, end, workshop
June 7, 2012 from 6pm to 8pm – West End Community Centre. Room 1. Imagine a green, clean, sustainable Vancouver. Bring some goodies, plates, utensils, and some ideas for your sustainable neighbourhood. WECC, Room 1. Organized by Peter Kennedy | Type: west, end, potluck.
June 16, 2012 from 11am to 12:30pm – West End Community Centre Food Scraps and Composting Forum(West End, and Vancouver)When: June 16, 2012, 11 am to 12:30 pmWhere: West End Community Centre Purpose: To inspire and inform by providing information and covering th… Organized by Randy Helten | Type: west, end
June 21, 2012 from 6:15pm to 8:45pm – West End Community Center Join us for the West End mural project if you would like to connect with your neighbours, build strong community, celebrate diversity create colourful street art and HAVE FUN! The on-street mural wil… Organized by Sonja Mulabdic | Type: west, end, community, art, project
June 30, 2012 from 12pm to 5pm – Kits Beach Walk over Burrard Bridge to Sunset Beach The year was 1982. Against the backdrop of the escalating nuclear arms race, 170 different groups cooperated to create Vancouver's first Walk for Peace. 35,000 people gathered that first year, then 6… Organized by Walk for Peace Vancouver | Type: kitsilano, village, west, end, peace, walk, free, music, speakers, food
July 3, 2012 from 1pm to 4pm – Community Centre Auditorium Please join us on Tuesday, July 3, from 1 to 4pm, to discuss the importance of TaxiSavers and why they should be re-instated. TransLink Board Member Don Rose will be there, so this is a rare opportu… Organized by Jill Weiss | Type: west, end, advocacy
July 7, 2012 from 10am to 1pm – West End Community Centre A Food Scraps Drop Spot will be launched at the West End Community Center, between the Community Centre and school on June 16. It will be here every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm until October 20. Volu… Organized by Randy Helten | Type: west, end
February 2, 2013 from 12:30pm to 5pm – Panorama Place Common Room Building on the foundation of the Pachamama Alliance’s “Awaken the Dreamer” initiative, the Awaken and Change Symposium is a thought-provoking, challenging, and deeply moving multimedia presentation… Organized by Be The Change Earth Alliance | Type: west, end
May 8, 2013 from 7pm to 8:30pm – Gordon Neighbourhood House Come to one of the following meetings in May to learn more about how to start up a food scraps recycling initiative in your own building, meet like minded folks in your community, and share engagemen… Organized by Cheryn Wong and Murray Mollard | Type: community, meeting, in, west, end
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Local, organic, rural, and/or urban, food production is a mainstay of life, and doing it well leads to wellness. From farm to kitchen, discussions relating to food--and the community arising around it--belong here.
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If you have to leave your village, how will you get where you want to go? By car? Preferably not, both for your wallet and the earth’s sake. This category is for all discussions relating to how we all get around.
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A human right? After food, most feel shelter is the most important necessity. A place of shelter is also the start of a community. This category is for all things relating to shelter, housing, affordable housing, homes, renewable heating systems, green buildings, heritage, and our built environment in general.
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