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McBridePark Field House Residency Blog/VV Newsletter
McBride Park Field House Residency Blog 2019-2024
The Village Vancouver residency at McBride Fieldhouse was generously supported by the Vancouver Park Board's Fieldhouse Activation Program which provides project space and access to parks to foster community-engaged activity that focuses on arts, culture, sports, environment, local food and social encounters. The residency has now ended.
The Transition Movement
Village Vancouver is part of a global movement and integrated network in 45 countries of:
- 479 official Transition Town Initiatives in 23 countries, 29 official initiatives in Canada, including 11 in BC
- ...and over 750 "mullers", including 56 in Canada and 12 in BC. (Click on the map.)
Want a quick peak into a bible of Transition, The Transition Companion?
Click on this image to open the book and you'll be able to read several chapters.
Get involved
Have a desire to advance ecological sustainability, community resiliency, regeneration & self-reliance, and social well-being in Vancouver? To connect with others in your community to create positive local responses to things like climate disruption, depletion of natural assets and economic instability and inequity? Grow more food? Learn how to fix your bike or prepare for an emergency? Get your Permaculture Design Certificate? Share a meal or swap stuff with your neighbours? Save heritage seeds? Engage in placemaking in your neighbourhood ? Participate in a more localized economy and consume less? Bioremediate your community?
Check out our Villages, Groups, Networks, and Projects -- including Neighbourhood Food Networks -- VV's centres of creativity where constructive dialogue leads to connection, collaboration, and inspired action in fun and satisfying ways!
We run on people power - join our website and/or the Village Vancouver Transition Society and get involved. Don't wait for an invitation; find folks on your own and "grab the reins." (We can help! - contact projects@villagevancouver.ca.)
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Best wishes for a peaceful, just, and resilient 2025 from Village Vancouver!
Community Gardens
May 3rd - August 30th Saturday- Aberthau Community Garden
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
July 5th-August 30th Saturday-Kitsilano Community Garden
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
Summer and Fall Workshops & Events
July 22, Tuesday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre
July 24, Thursday: DIY Soup in a Jar
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
July 24, Thursday: WE Garden Club
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM at West End Community Centre
July 29, Tuesday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
August 5, Tuesday: Mandala of Dreams and Nature
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
August 6, Wednesday: Sauerkraut
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
August 14, Thursday: Kitsilano Village Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
August 16, Saturday: Healing Skin Salve Making Cancelled
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
August 20, Wednesday: Sauerkraut
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
August 26, Tuesday: Mandala of Dreams and Nature
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Trout Lake Community Centre
September 15, Monday: Introduction to Seed Saving
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre
September 18, Thursday: Cordage and Coiled Basket
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
September 18, Thursday: Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
September 19, Friday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Kensington Community Centre
September 21, Sunday: WE Garden Club
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre
September 22, Monday: Cordage and Coiled Basket
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
September 24, Wednesday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at False Creek Community Centre
September 25, Thursday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre
September 28, Sunday: Hot Water Bath Canning
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
October 2, Thursday: Growing Superfoods
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Coal Harbour Community Centre
October 5, Sunday: Growing Superfoods
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM at False Creek Community Centre
October 13, Monday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at West End Community Centre
October 15, Wednesday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
October 16, Thursday: Recycling Depot
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
October 19, Sunday: WE Garden Club
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM at West End Community Centre
October 21, Tuesday: Quick Pickles
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Kensington Community Centre
October 22, Wednesday: Permaculture Vancouver October Meetup
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre
October 23, Thursday: Grow Your Own Sprouts and Microgreens
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Trout Lake Community Centre
October 24, Friday: Healing Skin Salve Making Workshop
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre
October 26, Sunday: Planning Your Spring Garden
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM at West End Community Centre
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Greater Vancouver Permaculture Design Certificate Course at Burnaby Community & Continuing Education : Riverview campus
March 29, 2025 at 9am to June 22, 2025 at 5pm
Ongoing Activities
Interested in getting involved or volunteering with Village Vancouver? check out http://www.villagevancouver.ca/page/volunteering-1.
Regular activities:
Interested in participating in a VV garden? We have collaborative gardens/garden spaces in 5 neighbourhoods. Contact us at gardening@villagevancouver.ca. Gardening now in progress. New gardeners welcome (space allowing).
Kits Village Recycling Depot (Kits Community Centre) Next depot: Thursday, June 15th
Main St. Village monthly gatherings (1st Tuesdays Little Mountain Neighbourhood House) Currently on hold due to COVID
Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd Wednesdays VV McBride Park Fieldhouse (sometimes elsewhere) Next meetup: Special date Thursday, July 29th
West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July and August 4th Thursdays - July 22nd and August 26th.
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