Dates: May - June, 2011
Location: South East False Creek area

Workshop Dates: May 21 & 28, June 4, 2011, 12:00-4:00
Location: Multipurpose Room, Creekside Community Centre (1 Athletes Way)
All levels of experience with design and gardening welcome
All workshops are free
To register, call Creekside Community Centre at 604.257.3050
Website: www.othersights.ca

Other Sights for Artists’ Projects Association’s project GROW consists of a series of walks, lectures, workshops and experiments focusing on Vancouver’s growing identity as a sustainable city. This program will explore various notions of sustainability through the site of South East False Creek. Seasonally planned events include a series of walks in the area led by artist Holly Schmidt, generative workshops on urban design and sustainable growing practices, and lectures about ecological and social sustainability.

Join artist Holly Schmidt, Vancouver Design Nerds, Ocean Dionne and Alicia Medina Laddaga and a team of gardeners for a workshop exploring the possibilities for growing food in the urban environment. Through observation, discussion and hands-on prototype building you will create and share new ways to grow veggies, greens and herbs in the city. Small pocket gardens will be planted at Creekside and then suspended on chain link fences near the Grow project site. Take a miniature garden of your own to add some green to your neighbourhood.

The first in this series of walks takes place this Saturday, May 7th, 2011 from 1:30-3:00, meeting at the main entrance to Creekside Community Centre, 1 Athletes Way.

Holly Schmidt has invited sustainability educator, Duane Elverum to join her for a walking dialogue through the Olympic Village and South East False Creek. Duane will draw from his experience in sustainable design and community engagement to consider the urban design issues of our growing and changing cities, as well as the social and ecological issues raised by Vancouver’s “greenest” development. Holly will explore the question of how sustainability can be enacted not just built into our urban environments.

This walk is part of Jane’s Walks in Vancouver.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.