This poster summarizes our partner organizations and the presenters who helped us explore during the Winter 2011 Pender Street series.
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March 17, 2011 Walking Home Projects visits Cause + Affect
March 17, 2011 – 9:56 am
Click below to listen to Cause + Affect’s Founding Principal and Creative Director, Steven Cox:
March 17, 2011 Walking Home Projects Q&A at Cause + Affect + walk through DTES
March 17, 2011 – 8:03 am
March 15, 2011 Walking Home Projects’ Q&A at 221a A Participant’s Response
March 15, 2011 – 11:38 am
WHPender 2011 – Q&A with 221A Artist Run Centre By: Sam Knopp Walking Home Projects Q&A at 221A Artist Run Centre provided a unique opportunity to hear what young designers Brian McBay and Laura Kozak do, and more importantly for many students thinking about a future career, how they got there. As an aspiring artist, […]
March 15, 2011 Montessori Students show Walking Home Project’s Director Catherine Pulkinghorn their final projects
March 15, 2011 – 11:14 am
Walking Home Pender Street – Montessori Student Final Projects Review by: Diane Macqueen, teacher Maple Grove Elementary After three separate walks with Walking Home Projects in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Chinatown, students began doing research and making projects in our classroom, reflecting their experiences. I gave suggestions, but also tried to stay out of […]
March 13, 2011 Day 2 of Walking Home Projects Mapped Workshop
March 13, 2011 – 10:21 am
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
February 9th, 2011 Walking Home Projects + Emily Carr Students mapping the neighbourhood
February 9, 2011 – 6:53 pm
On February 9th, 2011 Walking Home Projects had the special privilege of taking ECUAD Instructor Simon Levin‘s Walking As Knowing As Making Soc-300-S002-2011 class on a walk through Chinatown and the DTES. The following are guest responses from the students. Market Alley and Chinatown: an eye-opening experience Guest Response by: Claire Odecki The description of […]
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 […]
Walking Home Pender Street Winter 2011
January 19, 2011 – 10:41 pm
This poster summarizes our partner organizations and the presenters who helped us explore during the Winter 2011 Pender Street series.