Posts Tagged ‘Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre’

Bicycle tour of Vancouver murals


Date: October 1 and 2, 2011, 2pm
Location: Meet at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews (see map)
Website: Vancouver 125 Public Art & Murals

Join a bicycle tour of mural artworks created for Vancouver’s 125th anniversary and through the Great Beginnings program.

The meeting point for the bicycle tour is the Roundhouse Community Centre, and from there participants will ride along the seawall and through neighbourhoods including Downtown, Chinatown and Strathcona and arrive at the newly-unveiled ‘River of Crows’ mural on McLean Drive, which was created to celebrate Vancouver’s 125th anniversary and follows the Mosaic bikeway.

The tours will be approximately two hours long and there will be lots of stops along the way where you’ll learn more about Vancouver’s diverse and growing collection of mural artwork.

Meeting Point: Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews, south side (look for the courtyard opposite Urban Fare)
Please meet at the Roundhouse at approximately 1:50pm. The tour will start at 2pm with a few safety tips and housekeeping details from the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition (VACC) who will be joining the ride, and then we’ll be on our way. The murals bicycle tour will be approximately 2 hours long and will end at 1100 McLean Drive. Please bring water, a helmet and snacks and dress for the weather in case it is cool or wet.

View a map of some of the mural locations:

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The tours are free of charge, but please register in advance to secure a spot.

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Inside Vancouver: “Celebrate Vancouver 125 by free, guided bike tour of public art murals”

Posted on: September 27th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Counter Mapping


Date: January 18 – 29, 2011
Location: Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Gerry Thorne Exhibition Gallery.
Website: www.pushfestival.ca/shows/counter-mapping/

As part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Urban Crawl presents Counter Mapping. This visual art exhibition appropriates mapping technologies and disrupts the authority of maps to flatten and deaden the complex social worlds of Vancouver. Working across disciplines, artists deploy a range of tactics in their rewriting of the urban landscape. In Counter Mapping, we move from tracking individual lines of inquiry through GPS to impersonating tour guides in offering alternative histories of the city. We work from animating walking as a creative process and means of urban navigation to restaging the archive to publicize the private. From acoustic ecology to staged spatial disruptions, assembled works tender sensory narratives that constitute this unwieldy entity that we collective know as Vancouver.

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

Posted on: January 16th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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Turntable Turning: The Roundhouse Then and Now

Date:October 15, 2011
Location: Roundhouse Turntable and surrounding neighbourhood
Website: www.roundhouse.ca

The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Society presents Turntable Turning: The Roundhouse Then and Now, a series of interdisciplinary arts projects that explore and celebrate the history of the Roundhouse neighbourhood and its significance as the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Programmed events include a ghost mapping of the original Roundhouse neighbourhood complex in chalk, an aerial dance project exploring immigration and change, a celebration of the 1887 CPR Engine 374’s first arrival into Vancouver, and the official opening of the renovated Roundhouse Turntable Plaza.

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

Posted on: January 16th, 2011 by Vancouver125
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