Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 222010 – Historical Yaletown Walk with John Atkin by Samantha Knopp Today’s Walking Home tour focused on the history of Yaletown. John Atkin, a well-known local historian and author[1] was our guide, so the group was very excited. John explained that his interest in Vancouver’s past was initially spurred […]
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July 22nd, 2010 Historian John Atkin tells it like it is with a revealing walk through Yaletown
July 22, 2010 – 10:08 am
July 20th, 2010 We lucked out for two – another walk with Bryan Newson – this time we take on Coal Harbour
July 20, 2010 – 10:04 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 202010 – Coal Harbour with Bryan Newson Written by Samantha Knopp Today we were happy to again have Bryan Newson (Manager of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program) join our walk and share his first-hand experience of the city’s public art. This session was in Coal Harbour, a […]
July 15th, 2010 Getting up close with the Vancouver Biennale
July 15, 2010 – 10:00 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 152010 – West End and English Bay Biennale Tour with Gillian Wood and Dan Fairchild By Samantha Knopp Today’s session of Walking Home Projects was quite exciting because we started in a new neighbourhood for the program, the West End and English Bay! It was also a special day […]
July 14th, 2010 Evening Walk with Catherine Pulkinghorn
July 14, 2010 – 9:53 am
Guest post by Jordan Hemsley I had the pleasure of taking Catherine Pulkinghorn’s Walking Home Yaletown Public Art tour as a guest on July 14th, 2010. It really opened my eyes– not only in terms of learning about many of the interesting homegrown art pieces interspersed throughout the Yaletown area, but also the context in […]
July 13th, 2010 Engine 374 & Red Horizontal – more goodies in Yaletown
July 13, 2010 – 9:23 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 13 2010 – Historical Roundhouse Tour and Red Horizontal by Samantha Knopp As we walked through the fifth session of the Walking Home Yaletown Public Art Project, it was exciting to see how many of the participants’ gears are beginning to shift from passive to reactive learners, spurred on […]
July 8th, 2010 Now this is a walk – Bryan Newson and Yaletown public art
July 8, 2010 – 9:17 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 82010 – North False Creek with Bryan Newson By Samantha Knopp Today marked another amazing session of Walking Home Projects Yaletown Public Art! Bryan Newson, the city of Vancouver’s Public Art Program Manager, was present to give us a guided interpretive tour of North False Creek’s public art. Newson […]
City of Vancouver Public Art Program Manager Bryan Newson gives us some background on how his position came to be [ 5:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadJuly 6th, 2010 Off to the Jennifer Kostuik Gallery!
July 6, 2010 – 9:11 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 62010 – The Jennifer Kostuik Gallery and Public Art in Yaletown By Samantha Knopp Today’s session began in the “Jennifer Kostuik Gallery” in Yaletown. This is a commercial gallery which is very different from the public galleries that most of us are accustomed to. Rather than catering to the […]
July 1st, 2010 Canada Day in Vanier Park
July 1, 2010 – 9:07 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art July 1,2010 – Granville Island, Vanier Park and the Museum of Vancouver by Samantha Knopp Canada Day marked our second official gathering which began under the Granville Bridge by Granville Island. Amidst the throngs of tourists and patriotic locals who all came to enjoy the Island’s Canada Day festivities, we […]
June 29th, 2010 Welcome to Yaletown!
June 29, 2010 – 1:27 am
Walking Home Yaletown Public Art June 292010 – Our First Session – by Samantha Knopp WHYPA June 29th, 2010 / Day 1, Where All of us Became Family; Photo by Hiiro Prince The first session of Walking Home Yaletown Public Art started at Yaletown’s Immigration Services Society, where participants were eager to hear […]
Call out to Youth!
June 2, 2010 – 9:00 am
sponsored by Immigrant Services Society of BC Walking Home Yaletown Public Art (WHYPA) is a collaborative community art education project for youth aged 15-25 where you HAVE FUN, LEARN and SHARE with others as we walk through the city interpreting Public Art. We are looking for committed and motivated young people who like to think […]