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August 28: Walking Tour – Explore Hippie Kitsilano with Michael Kluckner
Sept 11: Walking Tour – Visite guidée du quartier financier de Vancouver
Sept 16: A Conversation with Brent Toderian about Heritage in Vancouver
Sept 18: Walking Tour – Mole Hill Community
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Walking Tour – Explore Hippie Kitsilano with Michael Kluckner
Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Meet at Kits House at 7th and Vine (tour ends at 4th and Vine)
Tickets: SOLD OUT
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
Join Heritage Vancouver and wander through Kitsilano with Heritage Vancouver’s first President, Michael Kluckner on a late-summer day. You’ll discover how its buildings and parks became Vancouver’s version of Haight-Ashbury, including concert venues, coffee houses and infamous crash pads. Michael explains how the original Kitsilano of a century ago became a rooming-house area ready-made for the hippie invasion of the 1960s and how it evolved into the activist community of the early ’70s. You’ll visit some critical sites where, for example, luxury highrise apartment developments galvanized neighbourhood opposition.
Author and artist Michael Kluckner lived in basement suites and garrets in the area and wrote for alternative newspapers including Terminal City Express and Around Kitsilano. A chapter of his most recent book, Vancouver Remembered, reflects on that era.
Tickets:
SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Walking Tour – Visite guidée du quartier financier de Vancouver
Quand : Le 11 sept., de 10h à midi
Ou : Rues Hamilton et Hastings (change of location added Aug 31)
Admission : $15, $10 membres Heritage Vancouver
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
NOTE: This tour is offered only in French
Venez explorer le quartier financier historique de Vancouver avec Maurice Guibord. Vous y verrez l’une des places publiques édouardiennes les mieux préservées du Canada, trois immeubles qui purent chacun se vanter d’être le plus grand de l’empire britannique, et les cariatides aux torses nus qui déclenchèrent un tollé parmi la société prude vancouvéroise de l’époque.
Vous pourrez admirer un cénotaphe touchant, un superbe dôme intérieur en vitrail, une manifestation de la force financière canadienne-française, ainsi que l’un des meilleurs trésors en Art Déco du Canada. Les incursions modernes et les efforts de préservation patrimoniale seront aussi discutés.
Venez reculer dans le temps le long d’une trame urbaine qui passe trop souvent inaperçue.
Réservations :
30 personnes maximum pour le tour
• Réservez en avance : via Paypal
• ou envoyez un cheque à Heritage Vancouver Society ,PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. Pour réserver votre place, par courriel: info@heritagevancouver.org
Thursday, September 16, 2010
A Conversation with Brent Toderian about Heritage in Vancouver
Time: 6:45pm to 9:00pm | Registration at 6:45pm; Conversation 7:00pm
Location: The Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut St.
Admission: $5; Heritage Vancouver members free
Heritage Vancouver once again welcomes Brent Toderian, Director of Planning for the City of Vancouver for our annual review of heritage priorities over the past year and a preview of the city’s heritage priorities for 2011. We work closely with the City of Vancouver to find solutions for the preservation of our heritage structures and 2010 has been no exception.
Discussions over the past year included historic theatres, heritage schools, the Bloedel Conservatory, the Green Renovation Bylaw, height in historic areas, the Heritage Density Bank and Heritage incentives.
This evening is your opportunity to participate with Brent in a conversation on an array of heritage topics. Join us in this stimulating conversation and bring along a topic that is of interest to you.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Walking Tour – Mole Hill Community: Mixed-Income Living in Renovated Heritage Houses
Time: 10am to 12pm
Location: Meet in the Community Square at mid-block in the Lane between Comox and Pendrell Streets. (Midway between Thurlow Street to the east and Bute Street to the west)
Tickets: $15.00; Heritage Vancouver members $10.00
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
Join Sean McEwen, head architect on the Mole Hill Community Housing project, as we explore the historic Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes on the block, and learn how the houses have been updated to accommodate affordable housing units, while integrating a high standard of sustainability, innovative open space planning, and heritage preservation.
Often called the oldest intact block of vintage houses in the City, construction on the Mole Hill block dates back to 1888. From the 1950’s the future of the block was uncertain, given development pressures in Vancouver’s West End and the fact that most of houses on the block were being assembled by the City of Vancouver. In the mid-1990’s, building on earlier citizen efforts to preserve the heritage on the block, the Mole Hill Living Heritage Society was formed to advocate for preservation and restoration of the houses as non-profit rental housing. Involving dozens of civic groups, the advocacy effort was successful, and the Province and the City partnered with the Mole Hill Community Housing Society to renovate 27 vintage houses on the block as a mixed-income, 170 unit affordable housing community.
The Mole Hill Community Housing project was recognized with a City of Vancouver Honour Heritage Award, and also received a Heritage Canada Provincial Award in 2004.
Tickets:
Purchase early as tour is limited to 30 people
• Online payments: via Paypal (account not required)
• Cheque: made out to Heritage Vancouver Society and mailed to: Heritage Vancouver, PO Box 3336, Main Post Office, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Y3. To hold your spot please e-mail us info@heritagevancouver.org to let us know you've mailed a cheque.
2.0 AIBC Core LUs | 2.0 PIBC LUs of Organized CPD
A few of our past events
• Wing Sang Building (1889) Tour & Fundraiser
• Heritage & the Arts – Inaugural Long Table Social
• 2010 Top 10 Endangered Sites Bus Tour
• Art Deco Movie Screening of 42nd Street, hosted by Dal Richards
• Robert Fung’s Gastown – Tour and Reception
• Walking Tour - Strathcona, Vancouver's Old East End
• Walking Tour - Chinatown
• Walking Tour - Vancouver’s West End
• The Exotic World of Art Deco World’s Fairs
• Tour of the Art Deco Marine Building & Penthouse (1930)
• The Future of Vancouver's Historic Theatres Discussion
• Shanghai and Miami - The Exotic World of Art Deco
• Robert Fung Gastown Tour & Reception
• Heatley Block Discussion
• The Penthouse tour/event with Vintage Burlesque (March)
• Our Annual Top Ten Endangered Sites bus tour (Annually, in February)
• Density Bank and Heritage Incentives Discussion
• EcoDensity Forum
• Japantown Forum
• Annual Christmas Party at Roedde House Museum
• Bowling at the Historic Commodore Lanes
• A Night of Tiki at the Waldorf Tiki Lounge
• Various Community Speakers on Heritage Issues
• Walking Tour - Hastings Street
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