Review of Walking Home Projects’ Mapped: Youth Navigating DTES Written by: Samantha Knopp After a full day of discussion and experiential learning on Saturday March 12th, 2011, with Walking Home Projects Mapped: Youth Navigating the Downtown Eastside (DTES), many participants returned to 221A Artist Run Centre for the second half of this two-day workshop on […]
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March 12, 2011 Day 1 of Walking Home Projects Mapped Workshop
March 12, 2011 – 9:39 pm
Review of Walking Home Projects’ Mapped: Youth Navigating DTES Written by: Samantha Knopp On Saturday March 12th, a dozen youth gathered at 221A Artist Run Centre for Walking Home Projects Mapped: Youth Navigating the DTES, Walking Home Projects’ first map-making workshop and first “for youth, by youth” event. I had been given the opportunity to […]
Youth Map the DTES & Chinatown with Walking Home Projects
March 12, 2011 – 10:21 am
An event not to be missed! On March 12th and 13th, 2011 Walking Home Projects hosts an extensive map-making workshop, for youth, by youth. At this event participants will have the opportunity to explore the DTES and Chinatown, and express their experience by creating their own artistic maps to be displayed in a local gallery. […]
March 10, 2011 Walking Home Projects takes a French Immersion Grade One Class from Lord Strathcona Elementary on a walk
March 10, 2011 – 11:41 am
A walking experience to Chinatown and Classical Chinese Garden Review written by: Maureen McDonnell On the afternoon of March 10th, the French Immersion Grade 1 class from Strathcona Elementary School had an opportunity to participate in a walk of the neighhourhood given by Walking Home Projects’ Director, Catherine Pulkinghorn and Walking Home Projects’ Intern and […]
March 3rd, 2011 Walking Home Projects goes on a scavenger hunt!
March 3, 2011 – 10:39 am
Walking Home Pender Street Walk # 3 – Scavenger Hunt Review by: Diane Macqueen, teacher Maple Grove Elementary This was the last of the Walking Home Projects’ field trips for our class. Rather curiously, we had weird weather for the first two sessions – with snow both times, and the third threatened thundershowers. But we […]
February 24, 2011 Walking Home Projects takes a walk through Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Market Alley and Yue Shan Society’s Interior Courtyard with a stop at New Town Bakery
February 24, 2011 – 10:03 am
WH Pender February 24th, 2011 Guest Review by David Gawne February 24th was cold and windy, and the sun was busy behind the clouds the whole day. Besides producing a lot of snot and chattering teeth, the cold and wind gnawed at everything but our zeal, for the group had silently resolved to be as […]
December 8th, 2010 Walking Home Projects visits the Rennie Collection
December 8, 2010 – 10:00 am
December 8, 2010 Review Written by Sam Knopp Stepping into the Rennie Collection at the Wing Sang Building it suddenly seemed as though we had left the busy streets of Chinatown behind. From the outside, the only distinguishing feature of this heritage building was the nice clean paint job. Once inside, the stark white walls […]
December 5th, 2010 Walking Home Projects presents Ken Lum Ghost walk in Chinatown
December 5, 2010 – 8:34 am
December 5th, 2010 Review By Samantha Knopp Today’s walk began with a large group gathered at the 221A Artist Run Centre for a rare opportunity to go for a walk with Ken Lum, one of Canada’s most internationally recognized contemporary artists. At home in Vancouver, Ken is most well-known for his numerous public artworks adorning […]