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What you'll find at our fieldhouses
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Here's a look at our program themes.
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Arts
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Environment
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Garden and local food
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Social engagement
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Sport
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Come explore activities at fieldhouses located in our parks.
Vancouver Park Board's Fieldhouse Activation Program offers space and access to local individuals, groups, and organizations to create activities that engage the community – and your participation is wanted!
Activate a fieldhouse: apply by September 17, 2018
Animate your neighbourhood. Host arts, culture, sport, environment, or local food activities in a park fieldhouse.
Five program themes
There is something for everything, with each fieldhouse program focused on one or more themes.
The Loco Moto Art collective has been developing unique indoor and outdoor arts experiences, creating with community:
Invasive species disturb wildlife habitat, take over our gardens and parks and even pose safety risks.
The Contemporary Art Gallery partnership opens up opportunities for community to work with local and international artists whose practices move beyond conventional exhibition-making.
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.
Experiments in Living is a project designed to question our surroundings and
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Media artists in Iris Film Collective create, screen, and exhibit film-based artworks, seeking to increase the visibility and accessibility of experimental media arts.
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.
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.
Mr. Fire-Man (artist David Gowman) invites community to explore the craft of building musical instruments from local wood.
Written on the Body represents a way of working, practicing, experimenting, creating, and collaborating between 
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.
The food hub is a central gathering place for a thriving neighbourhood food system and food-based community activities, events, and celebrations.
chART: Public Art Marpole is a long-term research partnership between the community of Marpole and Dr. Cameron Cartiere of Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Dance Troupe Practice is a movement based performance collective, creating work that combines dance, voice, video, and installation.
Night Hoops has been helping at-risk youth in Vancouver since 1996. 
Instant Coffee (IC) is a service-oriented collective of artists, curators, and designers based in Vancouver and Toronto.
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.
Attend programs, workshops, and events about producing, preserving, and preparing food. Share food and skills, and create collaborative food art with community partners in Strathcona. Create positive local responses to our climate change and food system challenges.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
