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18sepAll Day28octFeaturedFeasting for Change exhibitState of the Practice
Cover image of Csetkwe Fortier's "We Ain't Got Fish, But..." taken by Henri Robideau, courtesy of grunt gallery. *** A Vancouver Park Board residency project in partnership
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Cover image of Csetkwe Fortier’s “We Ain’t Got Fish, But…” taken by Henri Robideau, courtesy of grunt gallery.
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A Vancouver Park Board residency project in partnership with Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Sustenance Festival, and Wild Salmon Caravan.
“Food will be what brings the people together”
– Secwepemc Elder William Jones ‘Wolverine’ Ignace
What does a just transition to building a regenerative practice look like in the arts? In this exhibit, guest curator Dawn Morrison of Wild Salmon Caravan draws upon a creative arts practice embedding Indigenous perspectives of regeneration, sustenance, and life spirit.
A regenerative practice moves away from linear, production-oriented thinking and shifts towards holistic perspectives. It is a life-giving paradigm to regenerate society, reflect on our daily lives and give ourselves time to work and heal in different ways.
“The life cycle of wild salmon provides a powerful metaphor for a regeneration of life spirit. The relationship between wild salmon and Indigenous people are interlinked as keystone species for biodiversity and cultural heritage. With loss of cultural diversity, we lose biodiversity. A regenerative paradigm underlines our Indigenous worldviews. Human creativity is critically important to address environmental and social crises in the world we live in today.”
– Dawn Morrison, guest curator
Inspired by these ideas of a regenerative practice, this exhibition explores a selection of community-engaged arts to push the boundaries between art, culture, food, and life spirit.
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Exhibit Opening: September 19, 2019
5:00pm-7:00pm, Free!
MC’d by Tuy’t’tanat Cease Wyss with opening words from Dawn Morrison.
Please register in advance to save your spot: https://bit.ly/2lIeGYZ
This is part of an annual exhibition titled “State of the Practice” that highlights Vancouver Park Board’s long-standing commitment to artists working in community to engage citizens in creative practices. Presented in partnership with Sustenance Festival, Wild Salmon Caravan, Vancouver Park Board and Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.
Sustenance Festival banner by Joyce Liao.
September 18 (Wednesday) - October 28 (Monday)
Free
For Radical Access Mapping Project’s Full accessibility audit of the Roundhouse see here.
Mobility Access: The Roundhouse is wheelchair and scooter accessible, including washrooms, ramps and elevators, and wide entrances and exits. The entrances are at street level, with ramps, and while there are elevators in the building our event remains on the ground floor.
Parking: There is no designated wheelchair accessible parking, only street parking around the neighbourhood, and 2 parkades nearby.
Transit: Plan your trip. Address: Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews Vancouver
Bathrooms: There are a mix of single stalled and multi-stalled bathrooms, and a mix of gender neutral and trans-inclusive, each with clear signage. All washrooms are accessible for wheelchairs and scooters.
Roundhouse Community Centre 181 Roundhouse Mews (Davie & Pacific), Vancouver, V6Z 2W3
01oct1:00 pm2:30 pmIntroduction to Vertical GardeningWorkshop
In this workshop with Dr. Yael Stav, learn about the opportunities and benefits of growing food in vertical gardens in an urban setting. Discuss the different systems and technologies available for
In this workshop with Dr. Yael Stav, learn about the opportunities and benefits of growing food in vertical gardens in an urban setting.
Discuss the different systems and technologies available for vertical gardening. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to successfully grow vertical food gardens on fences, walls, and balconies, including tips for watering, weight, light and plant choices.
Village Vancouver will have a community seed library present – pick up some free seeds for your garden, swap or donate seeds.
(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Thunderbird Community Centre
2311 Cassiar St
Free
Village Vancouverross@villagevancouver.ca
02oct7:00 pm9:00 pmLearning Medicinal Actions of Herbal Medicine Through The SensesWorkshop
Join us for an experiential and informative talk on incorporating herbal medicine into your lifestyle through learning the energetic of plant medicine. This is a continuation of the learning the basics
Join us for an experiential and informative talk on incorporating herbal medicine into your lifestyle through learning the energetic of plant medicine.
This is a continuation of the learning the basics of herbal medicine talk – and we will be covering different herbs through accessing our senses and taste. This talk offers gems for new and seasoned herbalists alike!
We will discuss some back-to-nature home remedies and effective herbal medicines will be an opportunity to ‘sample the flavors’ of some gentle herbs during this talk (so bring a spoon and a drinking mug!).
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
UBC Farm
3461 Ross Drive
$29 Standard ($25 UBC Student) + GST
04oct6:30 pm8:30 pmEat Think VoteVancouver-Quadra
Eat Think Vote is a campaign that gathers community members across Canada to speak with federal candidates ahead of the upcoming election. Our goal is to make food an election
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Eat Think Vote is a campaign that gathers community members across Canada to speak with federal candidates ahead of the upcoming election. Our goal is to make food an election issue, and to make sure that the incoming government develops policy that encourages a food system that nourishes everyone. The focus of the event will be building a food system where no one goes hungry and where food is healthy and sustainably-produced.
The 2019 Eat Think Vote at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House provides the opportunity for Vancouver-Quadra community members to share their food-related concerns with federal candidates. All are welcome!
A light meal will be provided, prepared by the Kits Cares Cafe and Kits House with produce donated by the UBC Farm – Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the Greater Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
(Friday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
2305 West 7th Ave
Free
Kits Neighbourhood HouseZoeL@kitshouse.org
05oct10:00 am12:00 pmKorean CookingWorkshop
Learn to cook traditional Korean food! Dishes will include kimchi fried rice, bulgogi (thinly sliced ribeye bbq beef), and kimchi pancakes (kimchi jeon).
Learn to cook traditional Korean food!
Dishes will include kimchi fried rice, bulgogi (thinly sliced ribeye bbq beef), and kimchi pancakes (kimchi jeon).
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Killarney Community Centre
6260 Killarney Street
$15
05oct10:30 am12:30 pmMedicinal Garden Stewardship
Come to the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre to join Indigenous herbalist Lori Snyder in planting, growing and harvesting medicinal herbs in the Moberly Herb Garden in South Vancouver.
Come to the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre to join Indigenous herbalist Lori Snyder in planting, growing and harvesting medicinal herbs in the Moberly Herb Garden in South Vancouver.
(Saturday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre
$5
Moberly Arts and Cultural Centreoliver.mctavish-wisden@vancouver.ca
05oct2:30 pm4:30 pmCedar WeavingWorkshop
In the Haida and many Indigenous Northwest Coastal cultures, cedar is referred to as the tree of life. Many Haida teachings come from the cedar tree; there is a lot
In the Haida and many Indigenous Northwest Coastal cultures, cedar is referred to as the tree of life. Many Haida teachings come from the cedar tree; there is a lot to learn from her.
Participants will learn traditional Haida knowledge of cedar, including the historical and spiritual importance of cedar and the steps of harvesting cedar bark. Learn how to weave cedar bark into a beautiful bracelet to take home.
Great for families!
All supplies included.
(Saturday) 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Champlain Heights Community Centre
3350 Maquinna Drive
$28.57 + tax
Todd Devriesgiihlgiigaa@gmail.com
06oct1:00 pm3:00 pmGrowing Japanese Fall VegetablesWorkshop
Learn how to grow easy and nutritious Japanese fall vegetables. Take home plant starts, seeds and sample these vegetables in simple vegan Japanese recipes. Reduce travel miles, while increasing your ability
Learn how to grow easy and nutritious Japanese fall vegetables.
Take home plant starts, seeds and sample these vegetables in simple vegan Japanese recipes. Reduce travel miles, while increasing your ability to support sustainable organic food production.
This workshop is presented by the Tonari Gumi (Japanese Community Volunteer) Gardeners.
For more information, contact Makiko at tg.gardeners@gmail.com
(Sunday) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$13 or free for 50+
Village Vancouverross@villagevancouver.ca
10oct10:00 am3:30 pmGenerosity Event: Indigenous 'Wealth' and the Sharing Economy
Hosted by the Resurfacing History Project at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, explore interactive exercises and dialogue around the sharing economy. Participants will deconstruct the historical disruption of the sharing economy that
Hosted by the Resurfacing History Project at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, explore interactive exercises and dialogue around the sharing economy.
Participants will deconstruct the historical disruption of the sharing economy that existed in Indigenous communities. Learn how these practices still exist today, can be applied to the urban context, and explore where can they go from here.
(Thursday) 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Free
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood Housejandrew@mpnh.org 800 East Broadway, Vancouver
12oct5:00 pm6:00 pmNew (Taste) Buds Youth Food ShareCommunity Dinner
Youth at Frog Hollow Neighborhood House invite you to share food traditions at this community dinner. This event highlights the vibrancy that immigrant and refugee families contribute to Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood
Youth at Frog Hollow Neighborhood House invite you to share food traditions at this community dinner. This event highlights the vibrancy that immigrant and refugee families contribute to Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood in Vancouver
Dinner will be provided. Registration is required.
This event is located in the vibrant Hastings-Sunrise and north Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhoods of East Vancouver, on the traditional, unceded and occupied territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
(Saturday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House
2131 Renfrew Street, Vancouver
Free
Frog Hollow Neighbourhood Houseeva@froghollow.bc.ca
16oct2:00 pm4:30 pmWorld Food Day Celebration
Strathcona Community Centre invites you to celebrate World Food Day 2019 with us. This event will take place on the first floor of the Strathcona Community Centre and include family-friendly
Strathcona Community Centre invites you to celebrate World Food Day 2019 with us. This event will take place on the first floor of the Strathcona Community Centre and include family-friendly activities and light refreshments.
(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Strathcona Community Centre
601 Keefer Street Vancouver, B.C.
Strathcona Community Center Associationlorraine.holubowich@vancouver.ca 601 Keefer St, Vancouver, BC
16oct7:00 pm9:00 pmSix Primrose Film Screening + Panel Discussion
On World Food Day, the Cathedral's Maundy Cafe presents Six Primrose, a feature-length documentary film about the power of food to build community. Filmed on location at the Dartmouth North Community
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On World Food Day, the Cathedral’s Maundy Cafe presents Six Primrose, a feature-length documentary film about the power of food to build community.
Filmed on location at the Dartmouth North Community Food Centre, Six Primrose takes us into a community where strengths are highlighted, people are welcomed, and food is included in every engagement. Labels of single mother, new immigrant, disabled, addict, poor are left at the door. This is a community where lives are celebrated and opportunities are explored.
By tracing the lives of community members, Six Primrose chronicles the dramatic impact accessing healthy food and a social network has had on the people of this community, revealing the Food Centre’s deep effect on the entire neighbourhood.
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
Christ Church Cathedralandrew@thecathedral.ca 690 Burrard Street, Vancouver
17oct7:00 pm9:00 pmCommunity Open Mic Night
This social coffeehouse is the perfect opportunity to share stories through song and spoken word. The "Try it Out" Open Mic night runs every third Thursday of each month at
This social coffeehouse is the perfect opportunity to share stories through song and spoken word. The “Try it Out” Open Mic night runs every third Thursday of each month at the Barclay Manor. Here you can come to express yourself in an inclusive and welcoming environment, perfect for all generations.
For the month of October, our theme will be inspired by the Sustenance Festival. Come share your stories of food and culture through song, poems, script and more. We welcome all ages and abilities.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
19oct12:30 pm3:00 pmApple Festival
A multicultural event celebrating our cultural and biodiversity. Taste and learn 10+ varieties of apples, sample dishes from other countries using apples, cider pressing with Windfall Cidery and more. This is an
A multicultural event celebrating our cultural and biodiversity.
Taste and learn 10+ varieties of apples, sample dishes from other countries using apples, cider pressing with Windfall Cidery and more.
This is an opportunity to share recipes, meet new friends and learn about local grown apples. Free to attend. Translation provided upon request.
(Saturday) 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Free
Little Mountain Neighbourhood Housejoanne_mackinnon@lmnhs.bc.ca 3981 Main St. Vancouver BC V5V 3P3
19oct3:30 pm5:30 pmSharing Food. Sharing Culture.
Come and learn from four remarkable newcomer women chefs from Mexico, Venezuela, Philippines and Saudi Arabia, who will share their some favourite traditional family recipes and stories of migration through
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Come and learn from four remarkable newcomer women chefs from Mexico, Venezuela, Philippines and Saudi Arabia, who will share their some favourite traditional family recipes and stories of migration through food.
Learn to make sweet and savoury appetizers from different cultures. Participants will help to prepare the dishes and learn cooking techniques and hear stories behind the dishes from the women chefs. Share food together in a long-table style after cooking and discuss about the role of food in creating belonging and identity in the community.
We want to make this event accessible and affordable at $10 per ticket but no one will be turned away at the door.
Please email Trixie at trixie@flavoursofhope.com or Ian at gwfcnetwork@gmail.com for more information or questions.
(Saturday) 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Britannia Community Centre
1661 Napier St., Vancouver
$10, no one turned away for lack of funds
Grandview Woodland Food Connectiongwfcnetwork@gmail.com
19oct7:00 pm10:00 pmSukkot Harvest PotluckCommunity Dinner
Join JQT Vancouver and Or Shalom Synagogue for a special evening of food sharing and revelling in the fruits of our labour in celebration of the Jewish autumnal harvest festival
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Join JQT Vancouver and Or Shalom Synagogue for a special evening of food sharing and revelling in the fruits of our labour in celebration of the Jewish autumnal harvest festival of Sukkot.
Please bring a vegetarian dish and a libation of your choice to this potluck and get ready to kick back, drink, eat, and share stories. Everyone is welcomed: Jewish, Jew-ish, Jew-curious and friends! Rumour on the street is that there will be a fruit and vegetable garnishing expert waiting in the sukkah to add a little extra love and joy to our potluck dishes.
This queer and trans positive event is part of Vancouver Foundation’s “On the Table” series and takes place on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples.
This is a free event and registration is required. If you have any questions, please email projects@orshalom.ca or jqtvan@gmail.com
Please access the Social Hall through lower front door; it is wheelchair accessible.
(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Or Shalom Synagogue
710 E. 10 Avenue
Free
Parking: Street parking only (non-metered)
Bussing: Bus #8, 9 & 99 all stop along Broadway at Fraser. The synagogue is 2 blocks from Broadway.
Accessibility: For all, please access the Social Hall through lower front door; it is wheelchair accessible. All washrooms are gender-neutral with a wheelchair accessible washroom on same level as Social Hall. If door is locked, please knock and a friendly face will open the door to let you in 🙂
26oct4:30 pm6:30 pmCool Food StoriesStorytelling + Community Dinner
Cool Food Stories at the CNH Annex will showcase the cultural storytelling work of community members and artists in the neighbourhood of Renfrew-Collingwood. This event is supported by Collingwood Neighbourhood
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Cool Food Stories at the CNH Annex will showcase the cultural storytelling work of community members and artists in the neighbourhood of Renfrew-Collingwood. This event is supported by Collingwood Neighbourhood House and the Sustenance Festival. Refreshments will be provided.
How do our environments influence our food cultures and traditions? In this upcoming event, supported by Collingwood Neighbourhood House and Sustenance Festival, guests will be treated to an evening of storytelling. Following, guests will be encouraged to share their own memories of food with each other over a three-course meal.
Featuring local speakers:
Please contact Crecien Bencio at cbencio@cnh.bc.ca to share dietary / accessibility requests.
(Saturday) 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
CNH Annex
3690 Vanness Avenue
Free
Venue has physically accessible doorways for wheelchair, elevator/ramp to access event space, and physically accessible washrooms. Venue has gender neutral washrooms.
Bus tickets and dinner is provided,
Free to attend.
ASL and Translation will be provided upon request. Please request ASL or translation by September 30, 2019.
Collingwood Neighbourhood Housecbencio@cnh.bc.ca
Brenda Racanelli, Community Arts Programmer
Arts, Culture & Engagement | Vancouver Parks Board
sustenance.festival@vancouver.ca
Sustenance Festival maintains a deep commitment to responding to global trends and current issues which impact Vancouver’s food systems and its diverse people. Sustenance recognizes its occupation upon xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh homelands, unceded Coast Salish territories.