Attend Homelessness Action Week events in Vancouver from October 13 to 19 – an annual regional campaign across Metro Vancouver aimed at raising awareness about and building community capacity and partnerships for local solutions to homelessness.
Click here for a full list of HAW events occurring in the City of Vancouver.
Click here for information on HAW events across Metro Vancouver.
HAW event highlights:
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Gala Art Evening – Art Sale, Silent and Live Auction
Come to a lively public art gala that follows a week-long exhibition of artwork by well-known established artists and by homeless, at-risk, and recently-housed artists. This is your opportunity to purchase art in all mediums, along with creatively and beautifully transformed art and functional umbrellas. More…
Date: Friday October 18
Time: 7pm
Location: Atrium, Vancouver Community College Downtown Campus, 250 W. Pender St. (enter from Hamilton at Dunsmuir)
Register here
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Out of the Rain – Week-Long Art Exhibit
Visit this unique art exhibition where many of Vancouver’s established, homeless, at risk, and recently housed artists are exhibiting their work, with art as the medium to highlight the benefits of safe and decent housing. Preview auction items for the October 18th Gala Art Evening, and place an advance bid if you can’t attend the Gala. More…
Dates: Friday October 12 – Friday October 18
Times: The exhibit will be open for viewing during regular College hours (closed October 14 Thanksgiving Monday)
Location: Atrium, Vancouver Community College Downtown Campus, 250 W. Pender St. (enter from Hamilton at Dunsmuir)
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Beauty and the City Beast: Art, Nature and Health in the Built Environment
A presentation by Dr. Trevor Hancock
Come to this thought-provoking and engaging talk by Dr. Trevor Hancock. According to Dr. Hancock, we cannot underestimate the role that beauty plays in health and well-being – beauty being visual art, performance, music, dance, other art, and the connection we have with nature. More…
Date: Tuesday October 15
Time: 7pm (doors 6:30)
Location: Room 240, Vancouver Community College Downtown Campus, 250 W. Pender St.
Reserve your seat here
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Put on your dancing shoes and join us for an hour of fun and inspiring community dance prior to Dr. Hancock’s presentation. More…
Date: Tuesday October 15
Time: 5pm-6pm
Location: Atrium of Woodward’s building at 111 West Hastings St.
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Invisible Night: An Evening of Art, Film, and Dialogue about Youth Homelessness
Join local social justice film-screening group, Reel Causes, for an awesome evening of art and film to raise awareness about youth homelessness. Attend a special art reception, and come watch, Sugar, the 2013 award-winning film of a young girl with a toubled past trying to surive on the streets of Venice Beach, California. Post-film panel discussion with Sugar director Rotimi Rainwater by Skype, Judy Graves (Advocate for the Homeless), and others. More…
Art reception (limited tickets!)
Date: Thursday October 17
Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm
Location: Atrium, Vancouver Community College Downtown Campus, 250 W. Pender St. (enter from Hamilton at Dunsmuir)
Screening of Sugar and panel discussion
Date: Thursday October 17
Time: 7pm (doors 6:30)
Location: Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 149 W. Hastings St. (near Abbott)
Buy tickets here
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