The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is hosting the Public Aboriginal Art Walk throughout the city from June 17th until July 11th. This coincides with National Aboriginal Day this coming Monday, June 21st.
You can download the Art Walk kit for free online to start your walk anytime. Each sheet lists five pieces of public aboriginal art, their locations, their names, and a trivia question that you can answer by looking at the pieces.
There is a self-guided Art Walk sheet for downtown that will lead you to the Canada Line Station. If you would like to continue the walk, flip to the next sheet and the Art Walk has five pieces from the Olympic Village to Granville Island (where BIll Reid had his studio).
The third Art Walk sheet features five pieces at YVR: Vancouver International Airport. You can complete one of the walks or all three by using the Canada Line.
It’s a fantastic way to not only get out and walk about the city to discover the art, but to learn a bit more about the pieces you might see everyday.
Once you have visited each piece featured on the Art Walk’s self-guided tour sheets, you can return them to the Bill Reid Gallery by July 11th. If you filled in the correct answer to the trivia question for each, you will be entered to win a print by contemporary Haida artist, John Brent Bennett.
I had the chance to visit the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art for the first time the other day and I received a private tour from Dr Martine Reid. She shared personal stories about Bill, his pieces, and his passions. I will be following up with a seperate post about the Gallery on Monday.
In the meantime, you can follow the gallery on Twitter @BillReidGallery and use the tag #PAAW if you tweet about the walk.
Empire Field (at Empire Fields with Empire Stadium around it) will host the BC Lions‘ home opener this Sunday. I’ll be heading over for a preview tomorrow and will also be at the game on Sunday however my camera-toting husband got a bit a a preview earlier this week. Although it’s temporary (aka TEmpire Stadium) and made of scaffolding, he says it’s simply “gorgeous” – what do you think?
You can view the rest of John’s photos on Flickr.
Update June 18, 2010 I attended the media preview at Empire Field today. John was right, it’s pretty stunning once you’re inside the temporary stadium. I snapped a few shots of the facilities, the outdoor concession, and other features around the field.
The rubber pellets in the turf can be added or removed (as the specific sport being played at the time calls for them) and they are made from recycled tires. The turf is built to FIFA standards and will remain at Empire Fields as a legacy for the community. The backing on the turf is made of soybean-based polyurethane.
Capacity is 27,500. There are seats along the sides and benches in at each end.
The assembly period was 111 days and it was built by Nussli Special Events (Canada).
There are 125,000 single pieces of scaffolding that combine to make the stadium.
The four main lighting towers will also remain at Empire Fields for community use.
The President of PavCo (B.C. Pavilion Corporation) said, “all we are missing is a corn field and Ray Kinsella,” which made me giggle. I’m not sure it’s Field of Dreams but it’s a pretty spectacular structure.
Sinclair Centre, who recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, is hosting Canada Day celebrations over the course of three days.
Where
Sinclair Centre (757 West Hastings Street)
When
June 28 – June 30, 2010
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I first heard of Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Gardens when I played Vancouveropoly with my brother and sister when I was little and sadly it took me about 25 years to finally make my first trip to urban oasis.
Growing up in Surrey we didn’t make it into the city for many of our adventures. Instead, we headed East, went for drives through the valley, went camping, etc. This is the reason I haven’t done many typical “touristy” Vancouver things until recent years (such as my first trip up Grouse Mountain in 2009). It also wasn’t until 2009 that I took my first stroll through the garden in Chinatown and discovered its serenity.
I visited again a few months ago however I had never been in the “paid” part of the gardens until yesterday. Whichever way you chose to explore, this is certainly a special place in our city.
The white noise of the city fades away as giant koi swim by, passing turtles who slowly make their way from one lilly pad bed to another. Stone paths meander through groves of black bamboo and under the canopy of cascading willows.
I wandered in and out of the separate gardens and rooms with Bob from Vancouver is Awesome. It was a fantastic place to meet up and really chat for the first time about our various projects and the spotlight we each shine on our city.
The gardens are open daily from 10:00am until 6:00pm and while you can explore quite a bit for free however admission to the other half, which is much bigger than I imagined, is $14 for adults. They also host special events throughout the year and you can follow them on Twitter @VanGarden for updates.
This summer Pull Focus, an independent Gastown-based non-profit film school, will be partnering aspiring filmmakers and non-profit organizations as a part of their filmmaking for social change program.
Rhino Neal
Those interested in filmmaking can take one of five summer courses to learn everything from the basics of editing to producing documentaries. Students are not required to have a background in film but should have an interest in grassroots filmmaking and arrive prepared to plot out an idea for a documentary. The student films provide multimedia content that some organizations might not be able to afford on their own. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
