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Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities

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.    

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The Transition Movement

Village Vancouver is part of a global movement and integrated network in 45 countries of:

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.)

News from The Grist

 

Best wishes for a peaceful, just, and resilient 2026 from          Village Vancouver!   

                                         Community Gardens

July 4 – August 22, Saturdays: Kitsilano Community Garden
 1:45 PM – 3:45 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

July 4 – August 22, SaturdaysAberthau Community Garden

   10:00 AM - 12:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

                            

                         Spring & Summer Workshops & Events

July 15, Wednesday: Pickling
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

July 16, Thursday: Kitsilano Village Recycling Depot
 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

July 23, Thursday: WE Garden Club: Topic TBD
 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM at West End Community Centre

July 27, Monday: Kimchi
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West End Community Centre

July 28, Tuesday: Pressure Canning
 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

August 13, Thursday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

August 20, Thursday: Kitsilano Village Recycling Depot

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

August 20, Thursday: Water Bath Canning

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at West Point Grey Community Centre

August 24, Monday: Homemade Kombucha Brewing

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at West End Community Centre

August 27, Thursday: DIY Canning Soup in a Jar

 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Kitsilano Community Centre

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Village engages individuals, neighbourhoods & organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities & have fun doing it. Join us!

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Dylan S. Perera is now a member of Village Vancouver
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Ongoing Activities

Interested in getting involved or volunteering with Village Vancouver? check out http://www.villagevancouver.org/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) 

Permaculture Vancouver Meetups (3rd or 4th Wednesdays)

West End Community Potluck/WE Urban Garden Club (3rd Sundays West End Community Centre, in July 4th Thursday. 

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