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 […]
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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
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 […]
February 17th, 2011 – Walking Home Projects takes a walk through Centre A, Chinatown and the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
February 17, 2011 – 8:25 am
WH Pender February 17th, 2011 Review By Sam Knopp After getting off the bus stop on Hastings Street at Carrall Street, a group of Montessori students from Maple Grove Elementary School were once again readying themselves to explore the city. The group’s previous visit with Walking Home Projects took the students to the Woodward’s development […]
February 10th, 2011 – Walking Home Projects explores DTES & Chinatown with a class from Lord Strathcona Elementary
February 10, 2011 – 9:16 am
WH Pender February 10th, 2011 – Lord Strathcona Elementary School By Sam Knopp This week, Walking Home Projects took a class of Grade Two students from Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Over the course of this semester, Walking Home Pender Street has been focusing on the history of Chinatown, and while Hastings Mill School […]
Gung Hay Fat Choy & Happy Birthday! The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden Turns 25!
February 3, 2011 – 9:54 am
Happy Chinese New Year! What better way to celebrate than taking a stroll through the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden has another reason to celebrate this year… it’s 25th birthday! Walking Home Projects has been in partnership with the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden for its Walking Home Carrall Street project and currently […]
November 9th Interactive Environmental Art with Sharon Kallis
November 9, 2010 – 8:20 am
November 9th, 2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp A sudden turn of the seasons was felt this week as a chilly grey day greeted us on our last session of Walking Home Carrall Street. Meeting at the pavilion in CRAB Park (at Portside Park) we huddled together, still excited for another opportunity to walk through […]
November 2nd Gordon Price takes us to Woodward’s Development
November 2, 2010 – 8:14 am
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. […]
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 […]
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 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, […]