2024-04-25T00:47:25Z http://www.villagevancouver.ca/video/video/listTagged?tag=children&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:www.villagevancouver.ca,2013-06-05:4670368:Video:94686 2013-06-05T05:29:21.612Z Randy Chatterjee http://www.villagevancouver.ca/profile/RandyChatterjee

<a href="http://www.villagevancouver.ca/video/city-repair-intersection-painting"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="135" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1946078494?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=135" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>For the past 13 years, a Portland OR non-profit called City Repair has been hosting a “place making” festival that encourages residents to put a special stamp on their neighborhoods.<br></br> <br></br> On June 1, residents who live near Northeast Rodney Avenue and Northeast Tillamook Street (located in the Eliot neighborhood) celebrated the festival, known as the Village Building…

<a href="http://www.villagevancouver.ca/video/city-repair-intersection-painting"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1946078494?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=135" width="240" height="135" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />For the past 13 years, a Portland OR non-profit called City Repair has been hosting a “place making” festival that encourages residents to put a special stamp on their neighborhoods.<br /> <br /> On June 1, residents who live near Northeast Rodney Avenue and Northeast Tillamook Street (located in the Eliot neighborhood) celebrated the festival, known as the Village Building Convergence, painted a mural in their intersection.<br /> <br /> WW was there to capture the 12-hour effort in a time-lapse video.<br /> <br /> “This really did what it was supposed to do,” says Nancy Zimmermann Chung, one of the organizers of the event. “It got us all together working on a project, and that’s what VBC is all about. Turning a road that used to be a divider between people into a tool to bring them together.”