This Sunday is the last chance for West End residents to take part in a public consultation process helping to create a more artist-friendly neighbourhood.
Born out of the City of Vancouver’s West End Community Plan, the West End Art Plan is meant to ensure local residents, artists, youth and businesses are included in the process to create a “vibrant, healthy, more connected future” through the arts.
Grassroots community organization WE Arts is facilitating the West End Art Plan, which co-founder John Hewson hopes will identify community benefits for the neighbourhood.
The West End is one of Vancouver’s most artistic neighbourhoods, he notes, with some 4,100 of its 45,000 residents employed in arts and culture.
The first two planning sessions explored possible recommendations, resulting in the creation of seven committees focusing on developing arts markets, pop-up galleries, arts venues, youth activities and lane-way studios, among other initiatives.
This Sunday’s public session will provide one of the final opportunities for West End residents to give input on recommendations to be included in the plan.
“The session will also provide networking opportunities for West Enders to meet neighbours and other changemakers in the community,” said Hewson in an email. “Media, artists, community members, business, youth and those interested in the future of the West End are invited to attend and participate.”
- The West End Art Plan meeting takes place Sunday, May 31 at 1pm at the Empire Landmark Hotel, 1400 Robson. To register for the free event, visit WEArts.ca
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