Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities
Kitsilano Transition Village
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Neighbours who share an interest in community, sustainability and resiliency. Potlucks, collaborative gardening, permaculture, demonstration sustainable village, block parties, drop-in spaghetti nights, emergency preparedness, community arts, vegan soup night, seed library/seed collective, canning, plastic recycling depot, sew-op, straw/feed deliveries, dinner groups, slow food/slow everything day, work parties, movie nights, folk festival, 5th Ave. Micro-Village, bees, chickens, Thanksgiving get together, participation in Westside Food Collaborative, sustainability library, Celebration of Light, Salon d'Elan Vital, impromptu gatherings, less consuming and more fun! COMMUNITY RESILIENCE and SELF-RELIANCE.
KITS VILLAGE POTLUCK
2nd Sundays of the month from 6:30-8:30.
Next potluck April 14
VEGAN SOUP NIGHTS (followed by optional story telling)
3rd Sundays of the month from 5-6:30. Storytelling ($6) activity follows nearby.
Plastics recycling depot
Usually every other month on the Thursday before the 3rd Friday. Time varies, appoximately 6:30-8pm
Location: Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish Territory. Please contact Ross (ross@villagevancouver.ca)
Members: 171
Latest Activity: Mar 4
Kits Transition Village Upcoming Events/About Kits Village
We're part of Village Vancouver's Transition Town initiative. The Transition Town movement started in England a few years ago and has quickly spread all over the world. TT's are a way to generate
a grassroots,
community wide response to Climate Change and Peak Oil (have you noticed that we seem to be depleting a lot of our "natural resources" rather quickly?), and to the economic instability and insecurity we seem to facing more and more nowadays.
What it really all boils down to is that connecting with your neighbours can be one simple, but
very effective way of dealing with some of this stuff in tangible (and fun and satisfying) ways.
Ongoing activities...
KItsilano Neighbourhood Food Network
Kits Village is one big neighbourhood food network.
Gardening and other workshops. Details posted on the events page and here as they're scheduled. We refer to these as "Reskilling" workshops because these are skills we've collectively tended to have more of in years past. Learning and relearning (and applying) these skills helps us to reconnect to healthy, nuturing food, and to grow and preserve more of our own food and become more self reliant as a community. This in turn helps creates a more sustainabe and resilient neighbourhood in very tangible ways.
Neighbourhood potlucks and work parties We gather to share and celebrate around food on the second Sunday of each month starting around 5:30pm. (These are "on hold" awaiting hosts. May start up for the summer again as picnics and backyard bbqs).
A feature of the potlucks are work parties, where we get together before the potluck to help our host out. We often meet at 4 pm and help out with gardening, clearing some junk out, and with helping setup for the potluck. A good time to set up a "free store" if you're cleaning up - or bring things for giveaways.
If you'd like to host a future potluck/work party, please contact Mary Bennett (maryinvancouver@gmail.com or on her VV page).
How does our garden grow?
Do you know of opportunities or potential opportunities to garden collaboratively (growing together and sharing the harvest) in Kits? Imagine if this was going on in a number of locations. Have a front lawn or a back yard you're not using? Know of a strip between the sidewalk and street where food could be grown? Other ideas for growing spaces?
There are lots of other ways to potentially plug in around food and other areas of interest...
Interested in helping start a neighbourhood seed saving collective or a chicken coop co-op or a beekeeping group or a dinner co-op? Holding a block party? Hosting a drop-in spaghetti night or the next monthly potluck/workparty? Swapping plants? Do you have space in your yard to offer to someone who's looking for gardening space? Starting something new in Kits that will help us become a more sustainable and resilient neighbourhood? Helping each other figure out how to make a transition to living well while using substantially less energy? Or?
Transition is not a spectator sport! One of the beauties of Village Vancouver is that there's room for just about everybody..
Bring your ideas and interests and join the party!
Discussion Forum
Kits In home concert: Jess Reimer from Winnipeg Tomorrow Evening (Tuesday, March 6)
Started by Ross Moster Mar 4. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Tuesday, March 6, 2013 from 7pm to 9:30pm Location: Kits Point Street: Walnut Ave.City/Town: VancouverPhone: Judy Milliken 604 261-4951 or email judithmilliken@telus.netThis is an upcoming folk/blue grass/country duet-singer/songwriters from…Continue
Community Drop in "Spaghetti" Night Celebration Potluck this Friday Evening!
Started by Ross Moster Jan 30. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Drop in "Spaghetti" Night Celebration PotluckFriday, Feb 1 from 6pm to 8pmSt. Marks1805 Larch Street in KitsilanoVillage Vancouver, the Drop in Spaghetti Night Team and Kitsilano Neighbourhood House are collaborating to bring you a celebration of…Continue
(Reposting, as some people didn't receive) Six more Kits Village Drop-in "Spaghetti" Nights in January! Community-wide DISN celebration Feb 1
Started by Ross Moster Jan 16. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Hi all,I'm reposting, as some Kits Villagers reported not receiving this yesterday. Our apologies if you received it more than once.Over 40 people have signed up for the upcoming spaghetti nights, but there's still plenty of room and we hope to see…Continue
Six more Kits Village Drop-in "Spaghetti" Nights in January! Community-wide DISN celebration Feb 1
Started by Ross Moster. Last reply by Ross Moster Jan 16. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Join us at an upcoming "spaghetti" night.Share a meal w/neighbours, prepared by a neighbour.A series of neighbourhood Drop-in "Spaghetti" Nights (DISN's) hosted by Kits Villagers around Kits, followed by a large community-wide DISN celebration at…Continue
Reminder: Kits Village November Potluck Sunday evening
Started by Ross Moster Nov 9, 2012. 0 Replies 0 Likes
6:30-8:30 pm.For further details, and to RSVP: http://www.villagevancouver.ca/events/kits-village-novemeber-potluckCheers, RossContinue
*Impromptu Chili and Salad get together in Kits tonight (Sunday) at 6
Started by Ross Moster Oct 14, 2012. 0 Replies 0 Likes
In lieu of tonight's drop-in spaghetti night (moved to Nov 23). Mary has generously offered to feed us veggie chili at her place.If you feel like it, bring a salad or bread -- or just yourself.RSVP on events page or to ross@villagevancouver.ca for…Continue
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Comment by Angela Squires on January 23, 2011 at 3:49pm -
Kits Community Garden at Billy Bishop Legion 1407 Laburnum St
Our proposal to use planting beds and areas for growing food in exchange for maintaining their existing landscaping received the approval of the House & Grounds Chair; it will be ratified by their Executive early Feb. Ross and I are going to check out the soil and develop plans/logistics for utilizing the good soil from KNH before construction begins.
I like the idea of integrating food crops into existing landscaping in an aesthetically pleasing manner like we did at KNH, rather than the usual separation of landscape from 'kitchen garden' areas. We hope that this will stimulate other locations to make space available for community gardening in neighbourhoods.Please let us know if you are interested in participating in our Billy Bishop Community Garden. In February we will be doing some much needed pruning of shrubs that have been neglected and planning our crop planting and soil preparation.
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Comment by Angela Squires on January 10, 2011 at 1:15am
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Thanks for coming out to the Billy - what a yummy selection of food! I'm glad you enjoyed it there.
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Comment by Ross Moster on January 9, 2011 at 9:24pm -
That was great fun tonight at the Billy! Thanks for organizing, Angela.
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Comment by Angela Squires on December 28, 2010 at 11:24pm
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Potluck January 9th, Billy Bishop Legion, Plough Sunday
The VMM will not be coming to the Billy but may be enjoyed on Granville Island. They perform at the Triangle Square area in front of the French Bakery at 1pm and 3pm.Angela will be going to their performances.
VV will meet at 5.30pm onwards at the Billy whose members are welcome to bring a dish and join our potluck. The event will be advertised to Billy members. A Celtic style jam group meets from 7pm. and have been invited to come early and join in the potluck.
Queries: call Angela at 778 322 8778 or post message here.
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Comment by Ross Moster on December 28, 2010 at 4:55pm
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Sounds good. See you at film night.
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Comment by Angela Squires on December 27, 2010 at 2:08pm
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Yea Ross! I'd really like to access a copy of that Automatic Earth DVD when we get it. I've been telling people about it, there's a lot of interest among thinking folks. I'd buy it only I'm broke right now. I think my Skeptics group would be interested in seeing it too. See you on Wed.
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Comment by Ross Moster on December 27, 2010 at 1:37am
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All's well then!
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Comment by Angela Squires on December 26, 2010 at 5:37pm
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OK I've straightened Pia out and she now knows it's this Wed 29th!
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Comment by Angela Squires on December 26, 2010 at 4:59pm
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Just ran into Pia on Dec 26th - she seems to think the potluck/movie night at her house is tomorrow 27th yet the advertising says Dec 29th which is Wednesday - I don't have Pia's phone No and she's not on the Kits Village list.
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Comment by Angela Squires on December 9, 2010 at 11:44pm
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January Potluck Sunday, Jan 9th, at the Billy Bishop Legion, 1407 Laburnum Street, 5pm onwards. 604 738 4142. No minors please - 19 years or older.
The theme and surprises are still being pulled together but we are hoping to celebrate Plough Sunday with the Vancouver Morris Men for whom the pub is their 'village church' in Canada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough_Sunday
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