Fieldhouse programs in parks

Doing It For Love: Five Stories from Creative Communities in a Global Pandemic

Filmed and edited by artist Israel Seoane, this short documentary series reflects on the creativity, resilience, and richness of artists, and community working together in difficult times.

Come explore activities at fieldhouses located in our parks.

Vancouver Park Board's Fieldhouse Activation Program transformed former care-takers’ suites in parks or underused facilities across Vancouver into active spaces for community engaged creative practices.

In each cycle artist collectives, local food, and environmental groups are given access to these spaces in exchange for engaging neighbours, colleagues, and curious visitors in imaginative, collaborative work in parks.

These inspiring projects lead communities into deeper conversations about living in the urban environment.

Washroom and Fieldhouse Implementation Plan

This strategy will help to shape the use, renovation, and renewal of Vancouver's fieldhouses.

How fieldhouse residences work

Find out how the fieldhouse residencies work and how to get involved.

Arts and social engagement residencies

Amy Walker

Theme: Arts

Adanac Park fieldhouse
Everyone is invited to the Adanac Fieldhouse for tea, snacks, music, and art-making including needle felting, mandala painting, and stitching of all sorts.

The focus of the residency is on The Art of Everyday Life: building relationships while making useful, sometimes beautiful items including clothing, textiles, baskets, lanterns, and other functional objects.

Engagement with neighbours is the top priority as is hearing what they’d like to co-create. Expect a schedule of weekly, free public art-making sessions and workshops, plus Amy will be available as a ‘maker’s helper’ to assist with your own projects as appropriate.

Amy ‘Biker’ Walker is a multi-faceted maker who has a particular love for cycling transportation. She was a co-founder of Momentum Magazine in 2001, and since 2018 operates a mobile art activation service called Makemobile with the help of a big, red cargo bike. Her favourite scenarios are designing and bringing to life collaborative, hands-on activations in public spaces, and making cool, useful things out of discarded scraps.
- About Adanac Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Community Arts Council of Vancouver

Theme: Arts

McBride Park fieldhouse
Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) provides a free and low barrier space for artists in Vancouver to connect with community through the arts. Artists are invited to activate the Fieldhouse as 3 types of spaces (artist studio space, exhibition space, and public projects/ workshop space).
- About McBride Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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El Mashup Collective

Theme: Arts

Clinton Park fieldhouse
/ˈmaSHˌəp/ noun, "A mixture or fusion of disparate elements"

El Mashup Collective is an eclectic mix of personalities and artistic disciplines à la Latin-style. The Collective is excited to offer skills and vibes to surrounding communities and beyond, working and creating on unceded Coast Salish lands and in the specific context of the Clinton Park Fieldhouse.

Made up of emerging and established artists Adrian Avendaño (sound, experimental music), Daniela Rodríguez (experimental film, creative writing), Dora Prieto (poetry, interdisciplinary), Brenda Torres (multidisciplinary, animation, performance), and Valentina Acevedo (performance, cooking, curator), El Mashup Collective draws inspiration from multiple layers of identities, interests, and dreams of creating worlds of care and collaboration through the power of art and community.

With their beginnings in 2021 as a hybrid media arts and creative writing workshop for Latin/e/x youth in Vancouver, they are now growing and transforming. Moving to the Clinton Park Fieldhouse will allow them to expand their programming, deepen connections, reach even more youth in the region, and work with elders and communities they can’t even imagine yet.

They are thankful for the incredible support of their partners—The Cultch, Vancouver New Music, and Echo Park Film Centre North—as well as everyone who has been part of their journey, helping them establish a much-valued dedicated space where the spirit of El Mashup can thrive and shine brightly for the next 3 years! Ahí nos vidrios ;)
- About Clinton Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Enoki Knoll

Theme: Arts

Hadden Park fieldhouse
Enoki Knoll is the new satellite mushroom structure emerging from Hypha Artists’ Association. Located at Hadden Park fieldhouse, Enoki Knoll facilitates events and workshops that invite the public to actively engage in emergent happenings.

Following the principles of relational aesthetics,this art is created through interaction and social engagement. Through active play and improvisation where the ocean meets the sand and the mountains smile upon us, they live to honor the land with the art that emerges from within.
- About Hadden Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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The Fig Tree Palace

Theme: Arts and social engagement

Location: Jonathan Rogers Park fieldhouse
The Fig Tree Palace is a project of the New Page Foundation whose aim is to support formerly incarcerated people through art, culture, and food justice as they come back into outside society. The Fig Tree Palace hosts arts workshops such as screen printing, beading, and writing. Food justice projects such as gardening, processing, cooking, and eating. Community events such as poetry readings, drum circles, and other cultural events. Their work builds community through art and food justice for formerly incarcerated friends and the community at large. Collaborators include the Vancouver Prison Justice Day Committee, Joint Effort, and the Stark Raven media collective.
- About Jonathan Rogers Park
- Fig Tree Palace
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Foolish Operations

Theme: Dance

Riley Park fieldhouse
Foolish Operations’ creations welcome babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and all the generations in their circles of support in performances and workshops filled with irresistible invitations to participate. They collaborate with artists, educators, and specialists to spark inspiration between communities, disciplines, and fields of knowledge, using play as the glue.

Foolish Operation's current creative inquiry is inspired by "moving", "resting", and "nesting". They research creative physical expression (moving), mindfulness practices (resting), and attachment theory (nesting). This includes finding ways to discover and respectfully interact with our environment, birds, and trees in particular.

Foolish Operations’ primary creative incubator and learning platform is “Dancing the Parenting”, a program for children 0-5yrs and their caregivers. They explore moving, resting, and nesting through extensive community engaged creative processes. This includes mentorships, performance creation, presentation, conferences, and workshops with communities of various origins in French and English with the support of artists, guest specialists, and knowledge keepers.

Foolish Operations' team is excited to grow roots and become good neighbours in Riley Park/Little Mountain.
- About Riley Park
- Foolish Operations
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Holding Ground

Theme: Arts

Pandora Park fieldhouse
Holding Ground is a collaborative project of Cait Gentle (Gentle Geographies) and Sarah Comyn (Time & Times)—emerging from the compost pile of Hives for Humanity (2012-2024), a community-serving non-profit which was grown alongside the Healing Garden at 117 East Hastings Street, on the shared, unceded, ancestral and occupied territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

In the residency at the Pandora Park Fieldhouse, the artists are offering public programming in “Eco-Processing”—exploring the relationship between the Healing Garden and Fieldhouse Program and how one might grow a Medicine Hub concept; where one can practise relationship and embodied care technologies, process plant materials, redistribute abundance, and work in rhythm with the seasons.
- About Pandora Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Residency in Stanley Park

Theme: Arts

Second Beach
T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sto:lo, Hawaiian, Swiss) is an educator, interdisciplinary artist, and Indigenous ethnobotanist engaged in community-based teaching and sharing. Throughout a 30-year practice, Wyss’s work encompasses storytelling and collaborative initiatives through their knowledge and restoration of Indigenous plants and natural spaces. Wyss has been recognized for exchanging traditional knowledge in remediating our relationship to land through digital media, site-specific engagements, and weaving.

Wyss has participated and exhibited at galleries, museums, festivals, and public space. They were the 2021 ethnobotanist resident at the Wild Bird Sanctuary, and in 2022 were awarded an honorary PhD from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

This cultural residency supports a community member from the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), or səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations to work in a creative, activated and community-engaged space in a part of their unceded territory currently known as Stanley Park.
- T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss's website
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Opera Lirica

Theme: Arts and music

Oak Park fieldhouse
Opera Lirica is a Vancouver-based opera company founded in 2014 by artistic director Trudy Chalmers.

Opera Lirica aims to bring a wide range of musical events and activities for the communities of Marpole and Oakridge, including free concerts, workshops, opera screenings, masterclasses, a community opera chorus, and more.

They hope to bring people together, help them build confidence through singing and movement, break social isolation, and challenge the perceived social and financial barriers of this art form.
- About Oak Park
- Learn more about us and our events
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Patchbay

Theme: Arts

Elm Park fieldhouse
Patchbay is a station where people of all ages and abilities may gather to play music together, learn and share skills in music technology and creative expression, discover new ways of listening, and experiment with music and sound in a supportive environment.

Stewarding the fieldhouse are Charlie Cooper and c. o. valenza—composers, performers, and close friends who collaborate on collective sounding and listening practices. We hope to bring folks together over a curiosity for music and the sounds of the neighborhood.
- About Elm Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Patchwork Repair Network

Theme: Arts

Slocan Park fieldhouse
Patchwork Repair Hub is committed to fostering a culture of repair.

Their mission is to empower the community through hands-on workshops, skill-sharing events, and accessible resources. Projects include DIY mending nights, tool maintenance pop-ups, and large-scale group projects that are inspired by people who walk through their doors.

By centering repair in everyday lives and art practice, Patchwork Repair Hub promotes sustainability, reduces waste, and builds stronger social connections. Its work prioritizes equity and accessibility, ensuring all community members have opportunities to learn, share, and contribute to a resilient, sustainable future.
- About Slocan Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Sankofa Sanctuary

Theme: Arts

Falaise Park fieldhouse
Sankofa Sanctuary is an African-inspired cultural conservation project that aims to collect and safeguard traditional knowledge, history, and practices that exist within the Vancouver community.

Every month, we are holding space for a member of the community to lead a culture sharing session and invite folks to bear witness to the unique histories and traditions that make this city what it is.
- About Falaise Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Xinema

Theme: Arts

Norquay Park fieldhouse
XINEMA [zin-em-a] is an artist-run experimental film series founded and based on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and the Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). They strive to deinstitutionalize experimental film practices through alternative, low-barrier settings, and engagement structures.

XINEMA's main priorities are to remain low-barrier by accepting free, ongoing, and unlimited submissions regardless of year or premiere status; to prioritize underrepresented artists and media forms; and to connect filmmakers and film-lovers of various backgrounds, disciplines, and career levels.

Their fieldhouse residency is a hybrid non-traditional curation project, which supports the responsive exchange between artists of varying disciplines and experience levels to collaboratively create new artistic works, such as films, workshops, and curated screenings.
- About Norquay Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice

Theme: Arts

Maclean Park fieldhouse
Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice supports youth and low-income immigrant seniors in Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside.

Yarrow is looking to hold space for different community groups and minority groups that historically shared space in the DTES, Chinatown, and Strathcona neighbourhoods.

Yarrow encourages intergenerational interaction and knowledge keeping, and invite the public to unlearn and relearn their relationships with green spaces. They develop community gardening initiatives at MacLean Park that bring together community members to provide support for food security actions.
- About Maclean Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Local food and environmental residencies

Earthseed Sanctuary

Theme: Environmental Stewardship

Moberly Park fieldhouse
Earthseed Sanctuary is increasing community climate resilience, biodiversity, and food sovereignty through culturally-rooted arts programming on the shared, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Together with the community, they will steward the Moberly Medicine Garden and build a community medicine and seed library, and medicine maker space. Join them for land-based events and eco-arts workshops like natural dyeing, weaving, writing, music, among others.
- About McBride Park
- Find information on events and workshops
The Potting Studio

Theme: Garden and local food

Riley Park garden
The Potting Studio will be used to:
- House garden tools and supplies
- Host community meetings to discuss food literacy and education programs
- Facilitate workshops
The educational workshops held in the space will reflect our garden groups’ core vision to improve food security, ecological sustainability, and community development.

How we'll implement our vision

The space is located close to the Riley Park Community Garden where our vision can be implemented by:
- Supporting food literacy programs
- Using public spaces for skill development
- Creating a hub for discussion
- Ensuring that the garden green space is community-based
- Working with local artists and groups on multicultural art displays and community celebrations
The Fieldhouse and Community Garden projects are supported by Little Mountain Neighbourhood House.

The Potting Studio is used to:
- House garden tools and supplies
- Host community meetings to discuss food literacy and education programs
- Facilitate workshops
The educational workshops held in the space reflect the garden groups’ core vision to improve food security, ecological sustainability, and community development.
- About Riley Park
- Learn more about us and our events
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Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation (VUFFF)

Theme: Land based learning

Burrard View Park fieldhouse
Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation (VUFFF) is an intergenerational, cross-cultural, knowledge sharing hub of workshops, events, and land-based learning. They are a collective of diverse neighbours, individuals, and grass roots organizations. VUFF is rooted in the community through Chén̓chenstway Healing Garden and Indigenous Food Forest in Oxford Park (down the street from Burrard View Park) on Wall Street as well as with various other offerings such as the annual Neighbourhood Food Week event.

Their endeavours include hosting food, plant, medicine related workshops, resurfacing Indigenous history, and working toward "ReconciliAction". Amplifying the voices of underrepresented community members and providing opportunities for neighbours to create, participate, and connect together.

At the Burrard View Park Fieldhouse, VUFF creates a warm and welcoming gathering space, using the small kitchen for various forms of food workshops and programming, preserving, and drying foods, adorning the space with a small library of art and garden books, hosting outdoor movie nights, community potlucks, and other community connecting activities. What would you like to see, do and find at the Burrard View Park Fieldhouse?
- About Burrard View Park
- Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation
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Working Group on Indigenous Food

Theme: Garden and local food

Strathcona Park fieldhouse
The Working Group on Indigenous Food will work to activate the fieldhouse with community-engaged arts activities, community meetings, workshops, Indigenous food systems, networking, and educational events for the Wild Salmon Caravan and Indigenous Food, and Farm School projects that they lead.

Their goal is to facilitate relationship building to better understand each other and our unique relationship to Indigenous land and food systems.
- About Strathcona Park
- Find workshops and events
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Sport residencies

Hastings Community Little League

Theme: Sports

Hastings Community Park fieldhouse
Hastings Community Little League’s vision is to become a central hub of community engagement around youth sport – for both youth and their families – that becomes a model for other sports communities in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

Hastings Community Little League strives to provide children with a safe, fun, and positive oriented baseball program that demonstrates the ideals of:
- Good sportsmanship
- Fair play
- Teamwork
- Dedication
- Competition
- Courage
- Respect for others
Hastings Community Little League is a non-profit sports organization established in 1953 which provides baseball programs in five divisions for boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 12.

Come join us for family nights in the park!
- About Hastings Community Park
- Learn more about our league and events
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Vancouver Minor Baseball Association

Theme: Sports

Nanaimo Park fieldhouse
Vancouver Minor Baseball Association's sports location since 1958 has been at Nanaimo Park in East Vancouver (Nanaimo & East 45th). They're thrilled to have been granted into the fieldhouse activation program in the same park.

VMBA would like to continue to create a community engaged sports hub in the neighbourhood for both youth and families to enjoy.

Vancouver Minor Baseball currently offers spring, summer, and fall baseball programs. They also offer winter clinics for local children, youth, and adults, where they teach all aspects of the game of baseball.

VMBA also runs a concession stand near the baseball fields during the season that members and neighbors can enjoy the convenience of. The concession employs local high school students with food safe and serves ball park favorites.
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Parks and people: Innovative participation in public urban green space

In 2016, Sue Palmer was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to undertake research into innovation in participation in public urban green space in three cities: Berlin, Germany, Portland, Orgeon, and Vancouver.

Learn about her travels and research

Parks offer a gateway to nature in the city. As a community, we can care for parks together and use these spaces to get closer to nature and each other.

Learn how to get involved

Past residency artists and projects

2019 - 2024
Cloudscape Comics Collective

Theme: Arts

Memorial Park South fieldhouse

Cloudscape Comics Collective, a diverse collective of over 60 members, takes advantage of Kensington's cultural diversity to promote cultural cross-pollination with sharing stories.

Stories created in workshops are incorporated in the community comics library.

Stay updated on comic-sharing, online challenges, and weekly drawing contests on Cloudscape's blog .
- About Memorial Park South
- Cloudscape Comics Collective website
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Echo Park Film Centre

Theme: Eco-arts

Moberly Park fieldhouse

Echo Park Film offers an open invitation for a convening around community film, food, and garden.

Through an ongoing series of free public workshops and screenings, neighbours and friends will use organic materials grown in the community garden and surrounding area as ingredients to create eco-friendly films that celebrate growing, community, and connection to the urban landscape.

An important part of Echo Park’s mandate is their focus on marginalized communities becoming active participants in the creation and dissemination of experimental and documentary film in order to truly share the many powerful voices and visions that make up the fabric of contemporary life.
- About Moberly Park
- Find information on events and workshops
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Experiments in Living

Theme: Arts

Elm Park fieldhouse

Experiments in Living is a project designed to question our surroundings and better understand the things we take for granted in our daily lives.

We hope to re-imagine objects and activities found within a typical home through a series of dynamic collaborations with artists, community members, recreation centres, and local businesses.
Girls Rock Camp

Theme: Arts

Falaise Park fieldhouse

Girls Rock Camp Vancouver is a non-profit society that builds self-esteem in girls and non-binary children and youth through collaborative song writing, music creation, and performance.

By providing workshops, technical training, and space to create, experiment, rehearse, and perform, they build leadership opportunities, cultivate a supportive community of peers and mentors, and encourage social change and the development of life skills.

Creativity, positivity, and community are key elements of personal and collective empowerment and transformation.
- About Falaise Park
- Find workshops and events
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Mr. Fire-Man

Theme: Arts

Maclean Park fieldhouse

Mr. Fire-Man (artist David Gowman) invites community to explore the craft of building musical instruments from local wood.

All-ages workshops, gatherings, and events will include:
- Tool-making
- Sustainably harvest local wood from Cottonwood Garden
- Wood-curing
- Horn-making
- Playing and musical improvisation, with assistance from the Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra
Mr. Fire-Man (artist David Gowman) invites community to explore the craft of building musical instruments and spoons from local wood.
- About Maclean Park
- Learn more about Mr. Fire-Man
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P’ipa:m Lelum – Frog House

Theme: Social engagement

Clinton Park fieldhouse

Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House has been part of Vancouver Park Board’s (VPB) Fieldhouse Activation Program since 2019. The Clinton Park Fieldhouse is now an intercultural hub. It holds Indigenous plant workshops, decolonizing dialogues, and art programs, which are all guided by a land-based approach that invites us to explore our personal and societal connections to living on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), sə̓lílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

This fieldhouse was given a Salish name by elder Shane Pointe; P’ipa:m Lelum, which means Frog House. In Indigenous culture, the call of the frog in the springtime is a call to action. It signifies that the dormancy of winter is ending and the time for work is beginning anew. Our work aims to motivate the community to take action and make the changes they want to see in themselves and the community.

Built through the lens of Indigenous principles and leadership, the Clinton Park Fieldhouse has become a place to honour Indigenous history, peoples, and the land; a place of song, art, nature, and connection, and where we turn ideas into action.
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Publik Secrets

Theme: Arts

Hadden Park fieldhouse

Led by George Rahi and Robyn Jacob, Publik Secrets is a team of musicians, fabricators, and visual artists who re-imagines public spaces as participatory gathering places.

The team works to spark wonder and play through multi-disciplinary, community-driven arts projects and events, with a focus on participation and re-uniting art with the daily life of the community.
- About Hadden Park
- Learn more about our events
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The Alder Eco-Arts House

Theme: Eco-arts

Slocan Park fieldhouse

The Alder Eco-Arts Hub offers eco-art projects, workshops, space, and, teaching to the East Vancouver community.

We create a safe welcoming environment for neighbours to gather and learn from Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, artists, youth, scientists, and each other. Connecting across cultures, generations, and disciplines, to appreciate nature and respectfully create with natural materials, while fostering belonging in nature and community.

Workshops and events give participants knowledge of natural systems and awareness of traditional and contemporary Indigenous knowledge. All programs are low cost, have subsidies, or offered free.
- About Slocan Park
- The Alder Eco-Arts House
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Village Vancouver and partners Loco Moto Art

Theme: Garden, local food, and eco art projects

McBride Park fieldhouse

This Village Vancouver residency will have a food, gardening, and environmental focus.

Happenings in the community will include:
- Seed sharing libraries
- Plant swaps
- Pollinator and indigenous plant walks
- Events about producing, preserving, and preparing food
- Neighbourhood village potlucks
Other park activations will include partnerships by artist collectives like Loco Moto Art whose work has an ecological focus. Their hope is to create positive local responses to our climate change and food system challenges.

Village Vancouver has a long history of inspiring individuals, neighbourhoods, and organizations to build sustainable communities while having fun.
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- Imapon website
- Facebook
Vines Arts Festival

Theme: Arts

Pandora Park fieldhouse

Vines Art Festival is Vancouver's only eco-arts festival. They are committed to capturing the imaginations of new audiences and inserting creativity into everyday Vancouver spaces.

This residency will create platforms for culturally diverse local artists, performers, and community participants to create with and on the land, steering their creative impulses toward work that focuses on the environment – whether a deep love of nature, sustainability, or climate justice.
- About Pandora Park
- Find workshops and events
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2016 - 2022
Merakos Fieldhouse

Theme: Social engagement

Riley Park fieldhouse

The Merakos Fieldhouse is a collective of social entrepreneurs and creative Vancouverites hosting a variety of projects.

Find anything from yoga mat recycling to weekly drop-in tutoring.

Merakos fuses together traditional community building with innovative problem solving.

Our events

Join us at the fieldhouse for events such as:
- Photography shows
- Salsa nights
- Community dinners
While you're visiting, check out how green products are made, or see the newest ideas emerging from our business incubator program.

Keep up to date on our happenings by popping in for a cup of tea during our opening hours, or visit our blog by selecting 'Read more'.

The Merakos Fieldhouse is a collective of social entrepreneurs and creative Vancouverites hosting a variety of projects. Find anything from yoga mat recycling to weekly drop-in tutoring.
- About Riley Park
- Learn more about us and our events
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Iris Film Collective

Theme: Arts

Burrard View Park fieldhouse

Media artists in Iris Film Collective create, screen, and exhibit film-based artworks, seeking to increase the visibility and accessibility of experimental media arts.

Their key interest is in working in community with celluloid film, at a time when this medium is shifting from an industrial model to an artisanal one.

Iris will host regular screenings of film work by local, national, and international artists, and offer hands-on workshops and projects for community members of all ages.
- About Burrard View Park
- Find workshops and events
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2019 - 2021
Moresports

Theme: Sports

Jonathan Rogers Park fieldhouse

By working with citizens and community partners, and utilizing existing assets in the neighbourhood (spaces to practice, youth as coaches, existing resources), the Moresports strategy creates the conditions to provide sports for all.

Moresports responds to the needs and diversity of the community because it’s developed and run by the community.
- About Jonathan Rogers Park
- Find volunteer opportunities, programs, and events
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Night Hoops

Theme: Sport

Ross Park

Night Hoops has been helping at-risk youth in Vancouver since 1996.

They run a free basketball program to keep kids active and off the streets at night.

Each year, they link hundreds of boys and girls to mentors and coaches who will teach them about basketball and life skills.

Life skills workshops

Night Hoops also runs life skills workshops for youth in the community.

These workshops tackle various topics, including:
- Financial tips for avoiding debt and paying taxes
- Health advice on dieting and avoiding drugs
- Community information on school and job resources
Events

Outside of basketball games, Night Hoops also runs events for the youth in the program.

This has included basketball clinics, nights out to watch a basketball, soccer, or baseball game, movie nights, and barbeque picnics.

Our mission is to encourage healthy life choices for youth through the context a pro-social late night program.
- About Ross Park
- Learn more and find workshops and events
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2015 - 2018
Loco Moto Art collective at Aberthau Mansion, West Point Grey

The Loco Moto Art collective developed unique indoor and outdoor arts experiences, creating with community:
- Large-scale digital mosaics
- Video and sound installations
- Collage boxes
- Digital storytelling
- Real-time computer graphics displays
- Live multimedia performances
Read posts, find out about events and workshops, and more on Loco Moto's blog.

Written on the Body at McBride Park Fieldhouse

Written on the Body represents a way of working, practicing, experimenting, creating, and collaborating between Elisa Thorn (harp & composition) and Dayna Szyndrowski (percussive dance) at Written on the Body.

"Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights, the accumulations of a lifetime gather there.” Inspired by this text from Jeanette Winterson, the concept began as a collaborative performance between Szyndrowski and Thorn and has since developed into a larger artistic practice that navigates the intersections of music and dance, tradition and innovation, and composition and improvisation.

Through creative work and play with community members of all ages, the pair aim to develop methods to look within in order to look outwards in art and beyond.

Read Written on the Body's blog

Dance Troupe Practice at Pandora Park Fieldhouse

Dance Troupe Practice is a movement based performance collective, creating work that combines dance, voice, video, and installation.

Committed to a deep exploration of the moving body and creative collaboration, they look forward to connecting community needs and interests to their own practices, to explore the connections between dance and everyday life in unexpected places.

Read Dance Troupe Practice's blog

Lexie Owen at Burrard View Park Fieldhouse

Lexie Owen is an interdisciplinary artist interested in sculpture, craft in the expanded field, social practice initiatives, and curatorial projects. She explores the way new understandings form when different systems of recognition collide.

From back alley walking tours with botanists to community sewing circles stitching maps and text, Owen investigates by making objects, forming societies, and intervening in public space.

Projects like the Collaborative Embroidery Society will serve as a jumping-off point for community engagement.

Lexie Owen is an interdisciplinary artist interested in sculpture, craft in the expanded field, social practice initiatives, and curatorial projects. From back alley walking tours with botanists to community sewing circles stitching maps and text, Owen investigates by making objects, forming societies, and intervening in public space.

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Vancouver Society of Storytelling (VSOS) at Slocan Park

VSOS has a strong history of community engagement, bringing diverse groups of people together through the power of stories, from folktales and fables to personal narratives.

Over their 20+ year history they have worked with First Nations communities, schools, seniors groups, environmental organizations, and others to seek out and celebrate story exchange.

VSOS preserves the ancient art of oral storytelling while embracing opportunities to reach new audiences through community engagement.

Read VSOS's blog

The Vancouver B Movie Factory at Moberly Park Fieldhouse

Led by film producer Jimi Stewart, The Vancouver B Movie Factory works in communities to co-create imaginative social encounters that foster participation in the film and television arts.

The Vancouver B Movie Factory looks forward to creating community-based films in the studio and the surrounding park, bringing participants movie making dreams to life.

Learn more
2012 - 2016
The Bird Project at Queen Elizabeth Park Fieldhouse (2013 – 2016)

Artists Geneviève Raiche-Savoie and Jesse Garbe of The Bird Project produced socially-engaged art that raised awareness about issues concerning local and migratory birds as part of the City of Vancouver’s Bird Friendly Strategy.

Visit The Bird Project blog

Germaine Koh at Elm Park Fieldhouse (2012 – 2016)

Germaine Koh used the fieldhouse both as a studio and as the home base for the community-based project League.
League hosted weekly gatherings for people to come together to play sports and games they invented. It was problem-solving as play.

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Mark Haney at Falaise Park Fieldhouse (2013 – 2015)

Mark Haney, composer and double-bassist, used the fieldhouse for daily practice and rehearsal, and welcomed the public into his creative processes of both performing and creating.

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Re-Invent Project at Moberly Park Fieldhouse (2013 – 2015)

The Re-Invent Project, with social artist and painter Melanie Schambach, explored participatory art processes with local community, businesses, and service providers to create new narratives of belonging, inclusion, and health.

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The Art House in the Field Collective at Slocan Park Fieldhouse (2013 – 2015)

The Art House in the Field Collective joined Renfrew-Collingwood-based arts groups to build community through cultural, artistic, and inclusive experiences.

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ten fifteen maple at Hadden Park Fieldhouse (2013 – 2015)

The collective of Rebecca Bayer, Justine A Chambers, Josh Hite, Billy Marchenski, and Kristen Roos collaborates with the community on works investigating psychogeographical relationships between local histories and forms of mapping through:
- Sound
- Collective recordings
- Temporary installations
- Performances
- Screenings
- Workshops
- Conversations
- Dinners
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Urban Weaver Project at Maclean Park Fieldhouse (2012 – 2015)

Eco-based community artist Sharon Kallis and Haida cedar weaver Todd DeVries explored with community the creative repurposing of invasive plant species as a substitute for traditional weaving materials that are difficult to harvest sustainably in the city.

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Something Collective at Moberly Park Fieldhouse (2012 – 2015)

The Something Collective developed a community-mapping project, We Are Here, that interacted with the public using all the collective's artistic media.

These community maps drew out narratives from residents, asking what they value their neighbourhood and how they want it to grow and change.

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