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July 4, 2017
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One day soon after the November 2015 terrorist attack in Paris, Shazia Suleman was walking home from a neighbourhood park with her two young children when a man started yelling at her. “Go back to your country! Go back to your country!” “He’s right behind us and yelling,” she says, recalling how...
February 16, 2017
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Community can start with carrots —along with rosemary, squash, rhubarb and pumpkins. That’s been the experience of Carlson Hui, Matt Cooke and other residents at a 155-unit condo complex called James. Located in Olympic Village, the 14-storey high-rise has managed to transform the pervasive sense...
April 25, 2016
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Vancouver Foundation is pleased to announce Neighbourhood Small Grants are available again in Victoria (Hillside-Quadra). These grants are made possible through a partnership between Vancouver Foundation, Victoria Foundation , and Quadra Village Community Centre . The Neighbourhood Small Grants...
February 2, 2015
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Sometimes vegetable stew includes turnips. Usually it has potatoes, onions and carrots, but it might also include grains and seasonal farmers market produce like squash or zucchini. Each time it’s made in one of the workshops put on by Collin van Uchelen, PhD, it’s different. It all depends on what...
October 30, 2013
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The story of two women who built a community in the streets of Surrey. January 2012: An idea is born It’s a dismal winter night. Linda Kompauer and Laura Krowchenko are taking friends home through Whalley, a densely populated community in Surrey. Kompauer is driving while Krowchenko navigates. They...
June 14, 2013
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The best-known sign in Deaf culture, the one for “I love you,” was a big hit at a Surrey housing complex during a five-day workshop last summer. Posters and T-shirts were emblazoned with the gesture – one hand with the thumb, index finger and pinky finger pointing up, and the ring and middle...
June 10, 2013
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Indonesians have been creating colourful and intricate patterns on fabrics since the seventh century. Called batik , it’s used for everything from ceremonial attire to textiles that bring luck to modern high-fashion. The process can be elaborate and lengthy, but has a special way to bring people...
May 26, 2013
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When Tricia Keith and her family moved to a new housing development in Whalley, they felt, like their neighbours, that the area needed some fresh energy. It needed some inspiration and a little colour to better reflect the character of the new families in their new community. So, with her good...
May 13, 2013
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When Judy Kenzie set out to spread the word about the benefits of growing your own food in small spaces, she took her message to the streets of Vancouver… in the back of a pick-up truck. Kenzie wanted to connect her community and share her passion for sustainable living with locally grown and...
May 13, 2013
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Nathan Coburn is the Origami Kid – and a stealth community nurturer. The enthusiastic 11-year-old with the nimble fingers paws through a vat of his brightly coloured origami creations to show off some of his favourites: a surfer on a wave, two grooving dancers and a sheet of complicated folds that...
May 13, 2013
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It starts with one ball... dropping onto the hard gym floor at RayCam Community Center in East Vancouver. The basketball hits the floor with the distinctive “thunk” of rubber on laminated wood, and bounces high, back into an excited pair of nine-year-old hands. Then another ball hits the floor, and...
May 13, 2013
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Traditionally, children have told stories through drawings, written reports, and oral presentations. What happens when you combine all these pieces, throw in music, moving images, and some imagination? You get a digital story – an exciting new form of creative expression that kids at Graham Bruce...
December 18, 2012
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Never underestimate the power of an apple pie. That simple dessert became a catalyst for building community last year, inspiring nine women – originally from Germany, Brazil, Venezuela, France, China, Taiwan, Japan, Egypt and Iran – to begin cooking together and teaching each other how to make...
December 17, 2012
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There are more than 200 parks in Vancouver, and Julien Thomas has added another to the list. It’s small. Really small. About three square metres (or 0.0003 hectares). So small that if you blink while cycling by the intersection of 10th Avenue and St. George Street in east Vancouver, you’ll miss it...
December 18, 2011
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The kitchen at Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House in east Vancouver is buzzing. Busy cooks are mixing, stirring, tasting; and the place smells great. It reminds visitors of Kitchen Stadium on the popular cooking show Iron Chef, only the cooks in this kitchen are all about 12 years old, leaping about...
May 26, 2010
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In the summer of 2010, South Hill Vancouver community resident and artist, Shary Bartlett, was inspired to develop a project in her community that could bring her neighbourhood together. She envisioned an art piece that could be displayed in public spaces and during some of the local South Hill...
December 18, 2009
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“The classroom was so quiet that community centre staff kept peeking in. They thought the kids may have lost interest in my workshop and gone home.” This is the way Doug Harder describes the first model-building workshop he offered for free to kids living in the South Burnaby neighbourhood of...
December 17, 2009
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It starts with one ball … dropping onto the hard gym floor at RayCam Community Center in East Vancouver. The basketball hits the floor with the distinctive “thunk” of rubber on laminated wood, and bounces high, back into an excited pair of nine-year-old hands. Then another ball hits the floor, and...
December 17, 2009
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Susan Faehndrich-Findlay is a grassroots community leader in south Vancouver, a mother of four and until recently a wannabe canner. Living sustainably is important to her. And so is the health of her family. These factors, combined with her knowledge about preservatives and dangerous chemicals such...
December 17, 2009
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The lined faces of the senior citizens watch in awe as Master artist Siu Chang Wong gently glides his fine, horsehair brush over the delicate rice paper. With a few fluid strokes, a beautiful image is born. The audience is impressed. But they are also watching carefully, because soon it will be...
December 17, 2007
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Neighourhood Small Grants and Youth Philanthropy Council The Youth Philanthropy Council and South Burnaby Neighbourhood House know their communities. Vancouver Foundation entrusts them with selecting projects to fund in their communities, because of connections and understanding of the issues. The...