Community open houses to reimagine the Rupert-Renfrew SkyTrain Station Area

Share your vision and make ecological art with Still Moon Arts and the City of Vancouver

by Clea Moray

Still Moon Arts Society will be leading a collaborative art project at the City of Vancouver’s open houses this month to reimagine the area surrounding the Rupert and Renfrew SkyTrain stations.

Community members are invited to join in and help to develop the Rupert and Renfrew area plan by sharing in conversation and creation, contributing your ideas and imagination to co-create a vision of the neighbourhood’s future.

You’ll join artists Carmen Rosen and Varsha Gill from Still Moon Arts Society to create a participatory Community Vision Quilt. The colourful quilt will be felted from locally raised wool and will depict our collective vision for what the Rupert-Renfrew area could be. The artists will guide community members in needle-felting elements of their choosing, which will be incorporated into the overall design.

Once your imagination has been sparked at the quilting table and at six other activity stations, you’ll have the opportunity to talk with planners from the City of Vancouver to let them know how you’d like the community to evolve. This could include ideas about community spaces, arts and culture, heritage, natural areas, housing options, spiritual spaces, educational spaces, transportation, shops and services, and the stories and places that are important to you.

These open houses build on a previous phase of engagement during spring 2022 where the community identified opportunities and challenges.

Open house schedule

• 5:30–8:30 pm, Wednesday, February 1 | Renfrew Park Community Centre

• 1:00–4:00 pm, Saturday, February 4 | Vancouver Technical School

• 5:30–8:30 pm, Monday, February 6 | Thunderbird Community Centre

• 6:00–8:00 pm, Thursday, February 9 | Renfrew Public Library

For other ways to give input into the area plan, visit www.ShapeYourCity.ca/ Rupert-Renfrew-Station-Area-Plan.

Read more about the presentation to city council about the early stage of the plan presented on January 18, 2023 at www.Council.Vancouver.ca/20230118/ Documents/PSPC3Presentation.pdf.

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