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Past Events (3,773)
May 3Sunday
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*Kits Village Green Streets garden work party
May 3, 2015 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm – Kits, please RSVP for location Village maintains Green Street garden space in Kits. Join us for our weekly work party. New volunteers welcome. No experience necessary. RSVP/info: ross@villagevancouver.ca. Organized by Ross Moster and Kits Village | Type: kits, gardening, collaborative gardens, community gardens, green, spaces", permaculture, pollinators
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Jane's Walk: An affordable alternative to the Broadway Subway
May 3, 2015 from 10am to 12pm – VCC Clark Skytrain Station This route could accommodate a ground level Light Rail Transit system at a lower cost and a more rapid construction program than a Broadway Subway.This bike tour is 7 kilometers long, and will cover… Organized by Adam Fitch | Type: walk, history, planning, transit
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*VV Permaculture Plot work party and potluck
May 3, 2015 from 10am to 12pm – VV Permaculture plot at Cottonwood Community Garden Join us for our weekly work parties (mostly on weekends) at our plot at Cottonwood Community Garden. It's fun, it's educational - no experience necessary, we teach you. RSVP here or to ross@villagev… Organized by Ross Moster, Jill Ineson, and Village Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks | Type: strathcona, permaculture, gardening, potluck, learning opportunity, cottonwood community garden
May 2Saturday
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Jane's Walk: Renters' Union Guide to Mount Pleasant
May 2, 2015 from 3:30pm to 3:30pm – Mount Pleasant Community Centre This walk will focus on Vancouver's long history of working class housing activism. In recent years, Mount Pleasant has become a hotspot for gentrification and evictions, but it has also emerged as a… Organized by Nathan Crompton, Jannie Leung | Type: mount, pleasant, walk, rent, history
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Let's Learn About Honeybees
May 2, 2015 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Terry Salman Branch Library (Hillcrest Community Centre complex) Join local beekeeper Derrick To for a conversation about honeybees. Learn about their life cycle and how we depend on these incredibly important insects. Worldwide, honeybees are dying. Find out some… Organized by Terry Salman Branch Library | Type: main st., little mountain, riley park, workshop, bees, honeybees, pollinators
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Jane's Walk: Architectural Heritage and Human Scale Urbanism in Mount Pleasant
May 2, 2015 at 1pm to May 3, 2015 at 3pm – Quebec Manor in Mount Pleasant Join us for an Architectural Heritage and Human Scale Urbanism Walk in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver's original suburb. Find out about the urban design principles that shaped the evolution of this histor… Organized by Louis Villegas, Urbanist | Type: mount, pleasant, walk, history, community, architecture, planning
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Mastering Macro Photography
May 2, 2015 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden With the help of a macro camera lens, the centre of a flower becomes an otherworldly landscape, an insect transforms into a fearsome monster, and a leaf can reveal beautiful texture. Jenni will discu… Organized by VanDusen Botanical Garden | Type: garden, photography, macro
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*Seedy Saturday: Garden care and seed saving
May 2, 2015 from 11am to 1pm – Vancouver Public Library - Kensington branch Registration for the second workshop in the 2015 Seedy Saturday series is now open! On May 2nd, 2015, the CCFN and Vancouver Public Library – Kensington are presenting a workshop on garden care and s… Organized by Cedar Cottage Food Network & Vancouver Public Library | Type: kensington-cedar, cottage, workshop
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Jane's Walk: An affordable alternative to the Broadway Subway
May 2, 2015 from 10am to 12pm – VCC Clark Skytrain Station This route could accommodate a ground level Light Rail Transit system at a lower cost and a more rapid construction program than a Broadway Subway.This bike tour is 7 kilometers long, and will cover… Organized by Adam Fitch | Type: walk, history, planning, transit
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*VV Permaculture Blitz! (part 2)
May 2, 2015 from 10am to 4pm – Aberthau Mansion garden Join us for a free educational work party to kick off the 2015-17 Aberthau Garden Project, hosted by Village Vancouver. Building on our successful April 18th blitz where we built an herb spiral and h… Organized by Ross Moster and VV Neighbourhood Food Networks | Type: pt. grey, permaculture, blitz, work party, gardening, resilience
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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).
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