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Jul. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

Knowledge Network: Form + Place

Another elegant documentary from the Knowledge Network: “The people, places and things that have left their mark on BC’s unique…
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Jul. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

How Colour is Coming to Vancouver

Viewpoint (Daily Scot in particular) has been railing for many years on the absence of colour in Vancouver architecture –…
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May. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Biennale: The Controversy du Jour

It wouldn’t be a Biennale without a controversy. Some Vancouverites may not know that the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale is…
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May. 19, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Alex & Michelle Stoney’s Inspirational Aerial Landform Art

True artists express their creativity and do great works of art because it is the right thing to do. During…
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May. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

BIKEnnale/WALKennale 2021 is Open Now

From the Vancouver Biennale: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN |  BIKEnnale/WALKennale 2021 What’s the BIKEnnale/WALKennale? It’s the quintessential COVID-safe way to combine…
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May. 03, 2021 / Gordon Price

Crooning in Robson Square on a Sunny Afternoon

(Click title for videos.) Buskers are quickly discovering that the 800 Block is the best place to perform in the…
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Mar. 29, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

1960’s Hippies of Fourth Avenue: Vancouver’s Haight Ashbury

The City of Vancouver was wondering what to do with the “hippies” who were concentrated largely in the Kitsilano area.…
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Mar. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Proud Youth

A new work from the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale has appeared on the False Creek seawall at the foot of Drake…
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Mar. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stan Douglas’s Art in the Moynihan Train Hall

The greatest loss in the heritage history of America was the demolition of Pennsylvania Station in 1964.  From the grandeur…
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Feb. 10, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

How the Notorious Kingsway Triangle Became a Public Park Space

  CBC Journalist Justin McElroy visited EVERY  park  in Vancouver and published his  ranked visits here. One of those parks…
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Feb. 01, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Toronto Area Libraries Reach Out to Pandemic Isolated Seniors Through Library Cards

Who touches every household during the pandemic and knows where seniors live? Canada Post still goes door to door in…
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Jan. 05, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Secretive Fountain,the Hideous Hoarding & the Public “Paint~In” at the Vancouver Court House~April, 1966

April 1966 was a heady time in Vancouver~it was the year before Canada’s centennial year, and was the City of…
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Jan. 04, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Staying Lit through the Long Metro Vancouver Winter?

The Duke of Data at Simon Fraser University’s City Program Andy Yan suggested it first: if you have Christmas lights…
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Jan. 04, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

“2020 Get Lost”~ Songwriter “Son of James” Sums it All Up

  Via historian and author Catherine Clement, Son of James with musician Shon Wong sings for many in his latest…

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