FREE! Popular event! Please come early. No ticket needed for entry. HAPA Society / Hapa-palooza presents A Last Stand for Lelu film screening with hapa environmental activists and sustainability advocates panel featuring the film’s co-director Tamo Campos (Founder of Beyond Boarding), Anne Casselman (Environmental Journalist), Toby Barazzuol (Founder of Eclipse Awards), Kai Nagata (Communications Director […]

• Opening: Fri, June 3, 7pm - 10pm • Exhibition: Fri, June 3 - Fri, June 24 • Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat, 1pm - 5pm Vancouver Foundation’s Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grants (DTES SAG) presents the 2016 Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grants Group Show, from June 3 to 24 at the Interurban Gallery. Curated […]

Tell Trudeau – No tanks! The Canadian government plans on selling $15B worth of armoured vehicles and weapons to Saudi Arabia. In addition to torturing and executing their own people, the Saudi government used these vehicles in 2011 to put down the democracy movement in neighbouring Bahrain. Organized by Stopwar.ca.

In 2012, VIPIRG released a report called "Out of Sight: Policing Poverty in Victoria, Coast and Straits Salish Territories". http://www.vipirg.ca/2012/01/out-of-sight-policing-poverty-in-victoria/ Join us for an informal discussion with Rose Henry, Kym Hothead (with a guest from Tent City), and Derek Book. We'll be gathering in Centennial Square, with lots of snacks and bus tickets. Things we'll […]

Renae Morriseau, VPL's Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence, is available to meet and share experiences with emerging storytellers and community members who have an interest in Aboriginal culture and cross-cultural connections. Please call to register for a 45-minute session. Phone: (604) 331-3603

The intention of the Wild Salmon Caravan is to nurture the creative energy that wild salmon have inspired through the ages, and affirm inter-tribal relationships that are the foundation of Indigenous trade and fisheries knowledge systems adapted over thousands of years. The collaboration and creative energy will serve to transform the darkness surrounding the industrial […]

The Port is planning to expand Centerm container terminal by infilling 7 acres in front of CRAB Park, encroachng on its natural beauty with heavy industry. Come out and show that our park is important to us! Rain or shine.

Ever want to learn how to make your own books? – those ones with the cool stitching on the spine that lie flat when you open them? Artist extraordinaire and Gallery Gachet associate member, Karen Ward, can teach you how! Please join us for a 3-hour bookbinding workshop. Karen Ward lives in the Downtown Eastside […]

Art can challenge, raise awareness and organize communities on critical issues. Since 2012, Lorelei Williams has been leading a dance troupe, Butterflies in Spirit, on a mission to raise awareness of violence against aboriginal women and girls and the missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls across Canada. Join Williams and VPL's 2016 aboriginal storyteller […]

Come to a CCAP Town Hall to talk about the growing number of "zones of exclusion" in the Downtown Eastside and about what makes a store or a service low-income friendly. CCAP will try to collect your thoughts, identify and map all the low income stores (existing and lost) and make recommendations to the city […]