Arts and Culture

Ephemeral Art Legacies Around False Creek

The Vancouver Park Board is working in partnership with many organizations including Science World, VSB, Emily Carr, Other Sights for Artist's Projects, the False Creek Watershed Society, SPES and the Granville Island Cultural Society to present a series of environmental art projects at our Community Centres and around False Creek. These projects fall in line with the objectives of the City's Greenest City Action program and the Park Board's own objectives around greening.

The False Creek neighbourhood of Vancouver continues to evolve as human populations grow and the landscape of the creek itself changes to meet new demands. New communities are growing and referencing this environmental and human history. New and innovative art projects attempt to secure public spaces, educate and connect individuals so that new relationships can be built based on respect for the environment of False Creek.

BranchWeave

View photos from this project at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharonkallis/collections/72157626676192322/

Location: Stanley Park in partnership with SPES, Stanley Park Ecology Society

Workshop Dates: May 16, 17, 18, 19 from 4:30-7:30 pm
June 13, 14, 15, 16 from 4:30-7:30 pm

Sharon Kallis and Derek Irland will be doing “field work” in Stanley Park at the location of recent invasive English ivy pulls; join in for creating simple coil basket forms that will be woven together as a part of the Science World Facility Renewal Project.

Instructions to the field work site in Stanley Park below: see ivy site map here branchweave.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/site-map.docx

Stanley Park open studio drop in workshop sessions registration now available on website sidebar here branchweave.wordpress.com/workshops

Location: Mount Pleasant Community Centre
Programmer: Angela Thomson, email: angela.thomson@vancouver.ca
Creekside Community Recreation Centre
Programmer: Manabu Koshimura, email: manabu.koshimura@vancouver.ca

Dates: July/August on Tues/ Thurs from 6-8:30pm

Hosted by Science World and the Vancouver Park Board, free workshops will be held at Creekside Community Recreation Centre and at Mount Pleasant Community Centre. Working with artist Sharon Kallis, participants will learn basic freestyle weaving principals and will create large sculptural forms using natural organic materials. The woven forms that are created collectively will be installed along the Science World bike path as part of the upcoming Science World facility renewal project. Participants are encouraged to bring a bagged dinner for break time, all tools supplied, no experience necessary but some hand strength /dexterity required.

Ages 16+ maximum registration: 12 (Free)

There is limited space so pre-registration is required. Contact the community centres for registration. This is a two session workshop; attendance at both workshops is required for participation. Please check the website for workshop details. branchweave.wordpress.com

Art Is Land Network (AIL Network)

Location: False Creek Community Centre
Programmer: Cindy Gulbransen, email: cindy.gulbransen@vancouver.ca

Workshops dates: July and August

ART IS LAND NETWORK: (AILNetwork) This collective of artists will present an outdoor exhibition on Granville Island from Sept 9 to the 18, 2011 in conjunction with the Land Art Institute at Emily Carr University, which will feature a series of workshops as well as relevant lectures. The exhibit will include a site map for self-guided walking tours, artist led tours and opportunities for community engagement with artists in producing some of the works to be sited. The goal is to increase public awareness of alternative art-making methodologies that employ natural and repurposed materials in a local, respectful way. Check the web-site artislandnetwork.com for workshop and event listings.

False Creek Community Centre will be participating in this unique environmental art project and two of the artists in this collective will host free workshops, open to the community (child/family). Dates to be announced please check the website for details: www.falsecreekcc.ca

The two artists are: Haruko Okano, making paper boats that will be released as a community event holding messages and Nicole Dextras, making fish with magnolia and laurel leaves.

GROW

Locations: Creekside Community Recreation Centre
Programmer: Manabu Koshimura, email: manabu.koshimura@vancouver.ca

Workshops dates: April to July

Other Sights for Artist's Projects is hosting GROW: a series of free walks, workshops and lectures exploring issues of sustainability and urban agriculture from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Artist Holly Schmidt, will lead discussions and creative experiments in urban agriculture from Creekside Community Recreation Centre in South East False Creek. creeksidecentre.ca
Workshop details available at othersights.ca or www.creeksidecentre.ca starting from April 1.

Roundhouse Community Garden

Location: Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
Programmer: Brenda Racanelli, email brenda.racanelli@vancouver.ca

Workshops dates: September

In celebration of Vancouver's 125th anniversary, Roundhouse community GARDEN will comment on our collective obsession with Vancouver's property 'values' and our city's unique green spaces. This garden will be an evolving practice in community engagement: the re-creation of a native plant garden in the courtyard planters at the Roundhouse. Coordinated by the False Creek Watershed Society and the Roundhouse, the project will work with Evergreen Canada who will be donating plants for the garden. Children of Elsie Roy Primary School and community members will work together to re-create a historical edible garden space for public programming, education and celebration.