November 2nd, 2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp We started our 5th Walking Home Carrall Street session at the new Woodward’s Development, one of the largest initiatives currently underway to revitalize the Downtown Eastside(DTES). Since it opened just a few months ago, this was the first glimpse of the development for most of the participants. […]
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October 26thHistorian John Atkin takes us to the Alleys of Carrall Street
October 26, 2010 – 5:52 pm
October 26th, 2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp For today’s Walking Home Carrall Street session local civic historian and author, John Atkin, once again treated us to the “off-the-record” account of Vancouver’s past. Last week, John had given us an overview of Carrall Street, but the agenda for today took us off our usual route […]
Purple City – A Little History of Vancouver’s Vault Lights
October 23, 2010 – 4:56 am
By Samantha Knopp If you walk around Vancouver’s older parts of town you might stumble upon some beautiful stretches of sidewalk where pieces of purple glass are embedded in the pavement. This is not just sidewalk décor, but rather an architectural system of lighting known as vault lights or sidewalk prisms. The glass tiles were […]
October 19thHistorian John Atkin telling us the “Real” stories behind Carrall Street
October 19, 2010 – 4:35 pm
October 19th, 2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp One of the motifs popping up in every session of Walking Home Carrall Street is the perspectival nature of history. Our walks have demonstrated that seeking out the past is not as simple as reading a text book to get the facts. Rather, “what really happened” is […]
October 12th CRAB Park with Annabel Vaughan: Intern Architect and Community Activist
October 12, 2010 – 8:03 am
October 12, 2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp Can someone really find the history of a city on one street? That was the skeptical question in the mind of almost every student as our guest speaker for another session of Walking Home Carrall Street, Annabel Vaughan (intern architect, Adjunct Professor at the University of British […]
October 5th Waterfront Station and CRAB Park with Bruce Macdonald
October 5, 2010 – 7:50 am
October 26th, 2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp Another beautiful day was in store for our second session of Walking Home Carrall Street. After the group met at the corner of Seymour and Pender, we took off down Seymour toward Waterfront Station. We gathered outside Vancouver’s central public transportation hub, and Catherine told the group […]
September 28th, 2010 First Meeting and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gardens
September 28, 2010 – 7:48 am
September 28th,2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp Stepping off the #019 bus near the corner of Carrall and Pender Streets, twenty students from City School at King George Secondary eager to abandon the confines of the classroom embarked on their first session of Walking Home Carrall (WH Carrall Street). Accompanied by their teacher, Gary Davis, […]
Walking Home Carrall Street Autumn 2010
September 27, 2010 – 10:25 pm
This poster summarizes our partner organizations and the presenters who helped us explore during the Autumn 2010 Carrall Street series.
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art Summer 2010
August 21, 2010 – 7:30 pm
This poster summarizes our partner organizations and the presenters who helped us explore during the Summer 2010 Yaletown Public Art series.
Thank you!
August 20, 2010 – 6:34 pm
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art 2010 I first want to say thank you very much to Catherine Pulkinghorn for introducing us to such a great experience during the summer. Walking Home Yaletown Public Art is one of those experiences that you want all your friends to have. It was so inspiring, fun and provided so […]
August 19th, 2010 What if there was some colour?
August 19, 2010 – 10:09 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art final project by Neudis Abreu
July 31st, 2010 Storyboard Journal by WHYPA Participant Jennifer Sarkar
July 31, 2010 – 10:57 am
Walking Home Final Project Description by Jennifer Sarkar When the Walking Home Yaletown Public Art program (WHYPA) participants were asked at the very beginning of the WHYPA program to think about our own final project I went blank. I was thinking about it but honestly not too much. I had overheard other peoples’ ideas: picture […]
July 31st, 2010 “My name… is Laurie, Ellen, Dawson…?” – The Personal Privacy of Public Art.
July 31, 2010 – 9:42 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art Final Project Description by Hiiro Prince Having the honour to work with Laurie Dawson in the Walking Home Yaletown Public art program (WHYPA) gave me priceless insight into the medium of radio/audio arts. It helped me understand the industry and reflect on the many waysof archiving and capturing information from […]
July 29th, 2010 Veda Hille Live at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
July 29, 2010 – 10:22 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 29 2010 – Wrap-up Session at the Yaletown Roundhouse Community Centre by Samantha Knopp Our final session took place today out by the back entrance to the Yaletown Roundhouse Community Centre. We met on the lawn for the last time to share our experiences, reflections, and individual projects […]