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The French Quarter Parklet is the first parklet to be built under the new VIVA Vancouver Pilot Parklet program. The project was initiated by Kathleen Corey while a student intern at PWL Partnership, and soon evolved into a community partnership between designers, carpenters, and local residents. Given its name by Car Free Day, its shape by a Park(ing) Day installation, and its public introduction by a collaboration with Livable Laneways, the new space spans two parking stalls, and bridges the boulevard to the sidewalk. Big Picture, Small Space is a public intervention to celebrate this more permanent and formal phase!

Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014

Location: The French Quarter Parklet* on 21st Avenue at Main Street Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm Admission: Free

This all-ages event is an exciting, creative opportunity to engage the community in an afternoon with new takes on fostering dialogue, chalk trails, and live local music. Local artist Sophia Sengsuriya will write on picture frames the thoughts expressed by neighbours about their neighbourhood and event experience. While these activities take place, local musicians will play for those gathered at The French Quarter Parklet. And there will be large scale chalk drawing for everyone!

This public intervention is a fun, experimental process of repurposing simple resources to program the space and engage the community in rethinking the role our streets play in the public realm. 

NeighbourMaker is made possible through support from the Vancouver Foundation and bazinga! Additional support provided by VIVA Vancouver and CityStudio.

*Mini-FAQ

Q: What is a Parklet?

A: Parklets transform on-street parking into places for people to sit, relax, and enjoy the city. Traditionally, parklets consist of an extended platform over a parking space and can include benches, tables, chairs, landscaping, and bike parking.

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The Campfire Project

We were super pleased to present the CAMPFIRE BOOTH at the Yale Town Farmer's market this weekend, as part of the Museum of Vancouver's (MOV) Neighbourmaker project. 

The Neighbourmaker project is a public program and design challenge that supports and encourages artists, activists, students, designers, and members of the public to design experiences in public spaces to help build social connectedness.

(The Campfire Project team L-R: Peggy Wong, Robert Morton & Stuart Dow)

For this project, a team of CityStudio students were granted the space and small budget to create a "Campfire Booth", which offered a "campfire experience" complete with the warm glow of a (faux) fire, a starry sky, and even s'mores! The idea, part of a larger project called The Campfire Project, was to initiate a dialogue around creating legal fire pits at select public beaches.

Some great images of the event can be found here.

Thanks to the entire team at the MOV, City Studio and of course Peggy, Robert and Stuart for putting this together. What a great afternoon!

Here's to starting a conversation, to meeting our neighbours and to campfires on city beaches!

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For now, we are keeping the cover design of the NeighbourMaker Catalogue a secret. We will reveal it soon. We promise! 

For now, above is the size and colour scheme. Yes pink! 

Book Launch Release Date: Thursday Sept 4th, 7pm! @ The Museum of Vancouver - Join us for extremely inspiring speakers, chats, and demonstrations of what NeighbourMaking looks like! We will be roasting S'mores btw... more info on the event soon. Until then, please contact asinclair@museumofvancouver.ca to pre-order your copy. 

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More great photography from the Campfire Project at the Museum of Vancouver. Thanks to William Selviz. 

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This was the first NeighbourMaker event: Campfire Booth! Event description below: 

S'mores! Night Sky Projections! Crackling "Campfire"  The Museum of Vancouver presents NeighbourMaker, a public program that supports and encourages artists, activists, students, designers to design experiences in public spaces to build social connected-ness. Daytime Campfire Booth@ Yaletown Farmers Market The Campfire Booth is an all-ages, interactive campfire-like experience taking place within Tin Can Studio's Streamline trailer mobile project space. The Campfire Booth is a fun and free activity where folks can enjoy a faux fire pit featuring the sounds and trappings of a real one. It will feature the friendly feel, the crackling sounds and the campfire songs played all day. This experience is a great fit for children and families as they "roast" marshmallows, snack on s’mores and feel the warmth.  *Campfire Project is a CityStudio student created initiative that aims to introduce a pilot firepit this summer to make the case for public firepits on select Vancouver beaches.  **NeighbourMaker is made possible through support from the Vancouver Foundation and bazinga! Additional support provided by VIVA Vancouver and CityStudio.

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The Museum of Vancouver presents NeighbourMaker, a public program and design challenge that supports and encourages artists, activists, students, designers and members of the public to design experiences in public spaces to help build social connectedness. NeighbourMaker: Let’s Make Neighbours! Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Location: Offsite at Main Street Station Farmers Market | 1100 Block Station Street along Thornton Park, across from the VIA Rail Station and near the Main Street-Science World Skytrain Station Time: 3:00pm-7:00pm Admission: Free Peeple Panorama is about engaging people with ideas about their future community through making. The concept of a 3-way mirror is the starting point for creating an immersive installation to allow the public to engage with their immediate lived surroundings through design. Peeple Panorama makes the invisible visible, and reveals what people would like to see in their neighbourhoods using panorama building tools, markers, and a little imagination. No mad drawing skills are necessary. Stick figures welcome! Peeple Panorama is a sister project to Peeple. Peeple establishes visual understandings of public spaces slated for significant changes, and was originally designed for the City of Vancouver. NeighbourMaker is made possible through support from the Vancouver Foundation and bazinga! Additional support provided by VIVA Vancouver and CityStudio.

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Museum of Vancouver presents the first #neighbourmaker supported project: #campfireproject @museumofvan - thanks to CityStudio, bazinga!, and the Vancouver Foundation for support! fb link. For more info about #neighbourmaker contact asinclair@museumofvancouver.ca

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Tickets here! (limited capacity)