This poster summarizes our partner organizations and the presenters who helped us explore during the Autumn 2010 Carrall Street series.
Tag Archives: Walking Home Carrall Street
December 2, 2010 Walking Home Projects interviews City School Students
December 2, 2010 – 10:22 am
Walking Home Projects was thrilled to have City School Students and teacher Gary Davis join us on seven intensive walks along Carrall Street in Vancouver. This group of twenty or so youth walked with us for a few hours each week from Sept 28, 2010 to November 9th, 2010. Each walk we brought in a […]
November 25, 2010 Walking Home Projects at Pecha Kucha Night #14
November 25, 2010 – 3:12 pm
November 25th, 2010 – Pecha Kucha #14 Review written by: Sam Knopp Pecha Whatcha? Pecha Kucha? How do you say that? Well, whatever, I’m in! That’s my story of joining Walking Home Projects for a special evening at the Vogue Theatre on Thursday, November 25th. A group of 10 young adults quickly snagged the ten tickets for Vancouver’s monthly Pecha […]
Walking Home Projects Residency at Interurban Gallery
November 18, 2010 – 9:15 am
November/December 2010 Most of the work of Walking Home Projects (WHP) happens in public spaces in Vancouver, exploring our streets, parks and other interesting places while walking and talking together. Following months of being outside it was great to have a residency at Interurban Gallery during November and December of 2010. We were able to […]
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 12th CRAB Park with Annabel Vaughan: Intern Architect and Community Activist
October 12, 2010 – 8:03 am
October 12, 2010 Review Written by: Samantha Knopp Can someone really find the history of a city on one street? That was the skeptical question in the mind of almost every student as our guest speaker for another session of Walking Home Carrall Street, Annabel Vaughan (intern architect, Adjunct Professor at the University of British […]
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, […]
Walking Home Carrall Street Autumn 2010
September 27, 2010 – 10:25 pm
This poster summarizes our partner organizations and the presenters who helped us explore during the Autumn 2010 Carrall Street series.