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Will Woods

Will Woods is the founder and Chief Storyteller at Forbidden Vancouver, a walking tour through Vancouver’s dirty prohibition history. Will specializes in designing and staging interactive, theatrical outdoor events that provide immersive experiences for participants. As a local history enthusiast Will’s passion is sharing Vancouver’s history with both Vancouverites and visitors, especially the rich histories […]

Art Walks for Strollers: June 2012 Series

Seniors Walk Series

Catherine Pulkinghorn

Catherine Pulkinghorn has worked in site-specific embodied and experiential practices for 2 decades. During the past 8 years she has extended her focus to including socially based work, therefore moving away from researching and producing independently, to working collaboratively, engaging community members as key contributors to resolving the queries of her work. Within the walking […]

Tacit Past: Review

Essay by Catherine Pulkinghorn in response to Tacit Past: Marks of Vancouver’s History lead by Samantha Knopp on November 13, 2011. I am so pleased to be able to write about our walk in central and historic Vancouver with emerging artist Samantha Knopp. Samantha was a participant in the first iteration of the Walking Home […]

Lindsay Brown

Lindsay Brown is a writer, designer and 4th generation Vancouverite. She is currently writing a book on Vancouver’s Habitat Forum of 1976, a major civic event that brought Mother Teresa, Margaret Mead, Buckminster Fuller, Maggie and Pierre Trudeau, Paolo Soleri, Barbara Ward and many others to Vancouver to talk about sustainable, equitable cities http://habitat76.ca. Brown […]

Habitat Forum 1976

Seasonal Posters

                              Posters designed by Hailey Whitt

Hailey’s Granville Street Drawing

Image by: Hailey Whitt

Art Walks for Strollers

Friday April 20, 2012 at 10-11:30am $5/session Yaletown is rich with preserved history as well as contemporary art and dynamic urban development. Babes in strollers and their adults join artist and educator Catherine Pulkinghorn on a walking exploration of public art and public spaces in the Roundhouse neighbourhood. Catherine highlights obscure and hidden treasures, while […]

Money Tree

Money Tree Brian McBay A lot of streets that are too wide end up engaging with its pedestrian traffic only along its length – relying on the crosswalk as a bridge to the other side. However, Commercial Drive is narrow enough to easily cross the street, creating meaningful friction that might be key to its […]

Stacey Ho

Biography Stacey Ho dabbles in art-making, art-curating, art-writing, and art-participating, focusing on sound, photography, performance, and printed matter. The research and documentation of written and oral narratives is an integral part of her work. Holding a BFA from NSCAD University, she has recently performed in events through Montreal’s Nuit Blanche and the FADO Performance Art […]

Through the Looking Glass

Dec 3, 2011 Artist Walk in False Creek with M. Simon Levin Stacey Ho This past Saturday, I had the chance to take an artist-led walk through the area around False Creek. My guide: M. Simon Levin, an artist and educator whose practice is very much embedded in this placid and highly constructed environment. As […]

Transforming Authority

March 25, 2011 Response to Ghost Walk in Chinatown with Artist Ken Lum Brian McBay As a precursor to this project, I was invited to The Twister, a symposium of Vancouver-based artists, curators, and directors hosted by Centre A at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue where I reconnected again with artist Catherine Pulkinghorn. In the […]

Community Connections

Artists Walking Home is a project that produces immersive walks for public audiences. We co-present with professional artists, designers and critical thinkers who join us in challenging participant perspectives and understandings of the sites we visit. We are also dedicated to creating accessible, innovative programs for youth and other community members. Using a framework for […]