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 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 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 […]
January 27th, 2011 Walking Home Projects Woodward’s walk + special screening at NFB
January 27, 2011 – 8:21 am
WHPender January 27th 2011 Walking Home Projects Explores the Woodward’s Development Part II Review By Sam Knopp The meeting spot for this week’s Walking Home Projects walk was a little unusual, as instead of the typical street corner, the instructions given to all the participants were to meet at the top of the strange spiralling […]
January 20th, 2011 Walking Home Pender Street begins! By bringing a great group of kids to Woodward’s
January 20, 2011 – 8:17 am
January 20, 2011th 2011 Walking Home Projects Explores the Woodward’s Development Part 2 Presenter and Review By Sam Knopp Today I had the amazing opportunity to lead a walk for the first time. It felt a little strange, since my role in the program has shifted so quickly from participant, to intern and now… a […]
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 […]