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There’s no place like home Busy young actor Richard Harmon finds tranquility (and angry birds) in Stanley Park’s Lost Lagoon By Sabrina Furminger
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hen the time came for Richard Harmon to move out of the family home, there was no doubt in his mind where he wanted to live: as close to Stanley Park as possible. The 21-year-old actor — who appears as the brooding Julian Randol on Showcase’s hit sci-fi crime procedural Continuum, and as Richard Sylmore on A&E’s Bates Motel — moved into an apartment a stone’s throw away from Lost Lagoon in 2012. “I’m so close to downtown, yet at the same time, when I go to sleep at night, it’s quiet outside my window,” says the West Vancouverraised thespian in a recent interview at Denman Street’s Central Bistro. “There’s so much natural beauty here.” Outdoor activities are a central part of Harmon’s West End routine: playing basketball and football in Stanley Park, running along on the seawall, and traversing the gravel paths around Lost Lagoon. This last activity is not without its hazards: namely, what Harmon playfully refers to as a frenzied ongoing turf war between himself and a gang of angry birds. It started, he explains with mock gravitas, nearly six months ago. A goose hissed at him during one of his walks. This would be followed by months of honks, hoots, and “stink-eyed stares” from a motley band of ducks, geese, and swans. “And not two weeks ago, I’m walking down my street and I hear hissing and there’s a goose on my street and I was like, ‘This isn’t your turf, this is not where you belong, sir,’” he says, laughing. In many ways, Harmon’s tranquil West End life (angry birds notwithstanding) provides a perfect counterbalance to the stress of his highprofile acting gigs. “There’s a lot of responsibility that comes with the jobs, because I want to make the people who are kind enough to actually pay me to do what I love proud of me,” says Harmon. On June 8, Harmon took home a best supporting actor Leo Award for his work as the dark and nuanced Julian on Continuum (one of seven wins for Continuum that evening). “I read the scripts and I’m wowed because I don’t know if anyone has ever trusted me to do things as much as they have,” he says. “It’s very fun to be evil.” Audiences don’t often get to see Harmon’s characters having fun, given his proclivity for grey roles. “I think it takes a lot of people by surprise when they first meet me that I’m actually a happy person,” says Harmon. “I don’t brood in real life.” If Harmon were to brood about anything at all, it would likely be his ongoing war with the Lost Lagoon birds — a war to which he doesn’t see an end in sight. “If we could just coexist with each other and respect each other’s boundaries, I think it’ll be a war well fought on both sides,” he says with a deep sigh. Continuum airs Sundays at 9pm on Showcase. Meanwhile, if your child wants to break into the challenging world of film and television, read our story about Carole Tarlington’s new book, I Wanna Be An Actor, on page 26.
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“It’s very fun to be evil,” says Leo Award-winning actor Richard Harmon, who plays Julian on Continuum (and Richard Sylmore on Bates Motel.) He renews his sense of peace, however, every time he returns home to the West End. Laura McGuire photo
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Cycle City on the path to success Urban bike tours are booming for one farsighted Vancouver entrepreneur By Kelsey Klassen
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t’s stunning. Unbelievable, really: When Cycle City opened in 2011, it was the first urban bike tour company operating in Vancouver. Two years later, there appears to be only one other business offering anything like it, and not nearly to the same scale. Founder Josh Bloomfield says he was initially suspicious of why no one else was offering the internationally established concept here. “It was a no brainer,” he says with a laugh. So, if you haven’t already heard of it, meet Cycle City — an innovative and flexible way for tourists and locals to get to know the streets of Vancouver. In fact, Bloomfield says his tours are often for people who want to get to know Vancouver better. While business was “slow at first”, Bloomfield is now seeing the daily rewards as people catch on to the idea at home. “A lot of people are looking for a bike tour. They do one in one city, like London or Barcelona, and then do ours, and then they say they’ll do one every time they go to a new city because it’s such a great experience.” Cycle City currently offers: • The Stanley (3 hrs/9kms through Stanley Park; $34 + bike rental) • The Grand Tour (5 hrs/20 kms of the city’s ‘greatest hits’ catalogue; $60 + rental) • Central City Tour (3 hrs/9 kms through the best of central Van; $34 + rental) • The Food Tour (a story of the city told through food; $74 + rental) • A limited-time-only Pride! Tour (35 years of Vancouver LGBTTQ history, people, places and events that have shaped the city; $25 + rental) • and Private and Group Tours (prices vary) With the two ladies who started the Biennale-themed Art Wheelers tour departing for other cities, Cycle City recently obtained the rights and relaunched the Art Wheelers Public Art Tour as well. “We went on the tour last year, and both of them [Carol-Ann Ryan and Rosemary
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Lennox] were moving away. We wanted to get into doing tours for locals and thought this was a great concept.” Guide and amateur art historian Dan Hayes has spent months researching and revamping it to bring you an all-new tour of the most interesting public art you didn’t even know you knew. “For me, public art is not just sculptural pieces outside of office towers,” explains Hayes. “It encapsulates any aesthetic intentionality within the city. So we’re going to covering a diverse cross-section of sculptural pieces, murals, old hand-painted signs, mosaics, manhole covers, public squares as well as architecture. We talk about things you wouldn’t necessarily anticipate on a bike tour.” The tours begin and terminate at partnering bike rental shop Spokes, at Denman and Georgia in the West End. Expect to cruise along sea walls, parkways and bike lanes, seeing more than you thought possible in the time allowed. “You cover more ground, quickly. And it’s interactive,” Hayes explains of the appeal. “If you think about it — a bike tour compared to the alternative — on a bus tour you have 40 people and a driver. Whereas with us, our maximum is 12 guests, so we get to know each of the guests and find out what they are interested in and cater the information to them.” Bloomfield and Hayes both have a background of long-haul bike touring (through the Himalayas and Northern Canada respectively). They initially flirted with the idea of the company doing supported expedition rides, but the boom in urban tourism and the rise in cycling popularity locally (4,861 people actively participated in this year’s Bike to Work Week) prompted them to focus on that market, and the results are in: with 144 reviews logged, Cycle City boasts the coveted “Excellent” rating on Trip Advisor. WE Vancouver joined along on a trial run through their new art tour two weeks ago. The itinerary was so fresh out of the box that Hayes was ironing it out on the fly. He barely looked at his notes, though; his familiarity with the subject matter was effortless. Here are a couple of abridged highlights you might enjoy along the way:
LightShed, Liz Magor (2004) Located on the downtown seawall near the Coal Harbour Community Centre, facing Stanley Park. (Pictured: below, left) A 1/2 scale model of the old boat sheds
Cycle City founder Josh Bloomfield put in the hard kilometres to establish an urban bike tour scene in Vancouver. Two years in, his company now offers six types of city tours, and have just added art and Pride tours. Rob Newell photo that used to dot the shoreline. It is not made out of wood, as one might initially assume, but, rather, is cast in aluminum, down to the most infinitessimal barnacle. “She’ll often create objects that emphasize the fakeness of their aesthetic. This looks like a wooden thing that has been spray painted silver, but it was actually meticulously cast by the ‘lost wax’ process at the Harman Foundry on the Sunshine Coast. Bill Reid did a lot of his famous bronze castings at the Harman Foundry.” At night a soft light emanates from within the sculpture.
kinetic art piece.” Four circular platforms are set in the park throughway beside the Vancouver Club. Each wooden disc has a park bench and a living indigenous tree in a round steel planter on it, and rotates at speeds based on the work week: 1 hour, 8 hours and 40 hours. The fourth platform represents the 20-minute coffee break. “I came by to do a dry run of this tour with some friends, and there were some kids skateboarding on this thing. I pointed out that it was moving and they were like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe that!’”
Working Landscape, Daniel Laskarin (1998)
Head to CycleVancouver.com for descriptions and schedules of each tour and to book. To browse the hundreds of pieces in the Public Art Registry yourself, go to app.vancouver.ca/ PublicArt_net/Default.aspx.
Located at 901 West Hastings Street. (Pictured: below, right) “This looks like an innocuous public square, however its actually this really subtle
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THE WEST END Mounted Police: Vancouver no one-horse town By Kelsey Klassen
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he first time we tried to reach Cst. Darcy Henkel by phone, we were told she was in the paddock training a horse. In our second attempt, the constable who answered thought Henkel was possibly with a horse in the stables’ parking lot, located in Stanley Park. For the third try, we got Henkel to call us. “Sorry,” she starts, although no apology is necessary. “I was working with a horse, and then I had lunch, and then the farrier came.” Her breathing is slightly ragged. It’s all ‘par for the Friday’ for the distinguished member of the VPD’s Mounted Unit. And our suspicions are confirmed when Henkel explains how one comes to be a police officer who works with horses every day; it takes a long time to earn one of the seven available spots. “I’ve been on the job 24 years,” Henkel says. “I’m originally from Alberta and I came out here for a visit and saw a police officer on horseback in Stanley Park. And I was like, ‘What do you mean? You can be a police officer and ride a horse?’ So that started my love affair. But it’s a position that’s pretty sought after,” she adds, having joined the team full-time in 2011. “We don’t have a lot of members that are new to the job that come down and work here.” Rather, to move into the role, you have to acquire many years of experience in traditional policing. But one thing you don’t need is Robert Redford’s knack with horses; that, you can learn from the two trainers, one of whom happens to be Henkel. While the horses can be seen patrolling the more than 1,000 acres and 125 miles of roads and trails of Stanley Park, you are just as likely to come across them in the heart of the West End, or at Granville and Davie or Main and Hastings. In the summer, Henkel says one of the unit’s primary
roles in the park and along the beaches is tracking down children who have become separated from their parents in the crowd. They also keep an eye out for open alcohol, so sun seekers take note. The Mounted Unit, which has been in service intermittently since 1909, has evolved to take on a much larger role in the management of crowds at events like the fireworks at English Bay, and appearances at special functions such as the Santa Claus Parade. The squad also played an integral role in diffusing the violence during the 2011 Stanley Cup riot. “We had six horses out that night, and they were absolutely fantastic throughout that entire five hours of moving crowds and having things thrown at them. They just went out there and did their job calmly like it was a regular training day, and none of the horses were hurt, none of the riders were hurt and none of the general public was hurt. It’s pretty amazing when everybody gets back to the stables safe and sound and your horse has carried you through this chaotic situation. You’re pretty thankful for that.” One of our cover horses, Turbo, along with his brother, was gifted to the unit by London Drugs in 2012 as thanks for the mounted squad’s role in protecting London Drugs’ employees from looters. But, despite their intimidating appearance, there’s no high-horse mentality here. The riders welcome interaction with the public when on regular patrol, and encourage children in particular to say hi. That includes at the stables. “We had so many people come down [after the riot] with bags of carrots, baskets of apples, and lots of phone calls, just checking in to see how the horses were,” recalls Henkel. “We’ll never say no to somebody who wants to bring a bag of carrots or apples to these guys.” For additional facts about the Mounted Unit, including how they deal with those darn horse droppings, go to WEVancouver.com.
Cst. Darcy Henkel and Cst. Rich Horner of the Vancouver Police Department’s Mounted Unit, on patrol with Turbo and Clyde outside the Sylvia Hotel in the West End. Laura McGuire photo
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ow do you capture a diverse and complex neighborhood’s essence in one, easily identifiable image? The West End BIA believes it’s done that with its new logo, unveiled Wednesday night at the Stewart Stephenson Modern Art Gallery (1101300 Robson). “This new identity highlights, unifies and celebrates the area’s diverse experiences and offerings,” says a BIA press release. “The variety of independent restaurants, the eclectic mix of retail, the proud gay heritage and the stunning natural beauty are just a few of what makes the West End an iconic area.” • Three vertical bars in the W represent the neighbourhood: high rise buildings, diversity of people and growth. The bars individually represent the area’s proximity to three unique features: Stanley Park, English Bay and downtown Vancouver. • Three horizontal bars in the E represent the commercial streets: Davie, Denman and Robson. As separate streets they are some of this City’s most well-known and beloved. Together they create something more powerful. • Together the WE captures the essence of the West End: “Three Great Streets: One Amazing Neighbourhood.” The West End BIA expanded its Davie Street boundaries in April 2007 to include Denman and Lower Robson streets.
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Home to the world The West End has long been celebrated for its diversity, but there are ways to make the neighbourhood better, the BIA says By Martha Perkins
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ack when city fathers — and they were all men — dreamed of creating a New Liverpool, they felt that a street car loop would help define the West End neighborhood. It worked, kind of. The street car did breath life into the neighbourhood roughly bordered by Davie, Denman, Robson and Granville. But instead of becoming a haven for British immigrants, the West End became home to the world. Today, the West End is the landing pad for many newcomers to Vancouver. It’s got a high turnover of apartment rentals because it’s the place where many people first settle when they move here, whether by U-Haul across the country or on a plane from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. But getting around the West End today isn’t as easy as it should be, say local business owners. The West End BIA is advocating that Translink bring back a streetcar line — or at least a public transportation loop — that allows people
to travel along all four of the main streets without having to transfer to another line. “How many communities have a beach as its front porch and Stanley Park in its back yard,” asks Stephen Regan, the BIA’s executive director. “We want to make it really easy for locals and visitors to get around.” And while the BIA agrees with the city’s plan to increase free bikeshare opportunities, it has also come up with a few suggestions on how to mitigate the impact on the many bike rental businesses in the neighborhood. For instance, they prefer that bike-share not include Stanley Park, a prime source of rental bike business. The overall goal is to create a sense of vibrancy and life on the streets. One idea is to use decorative lighting to define the various streets, similar to what’s already happening along Robson and Granville Streets. (Granville is not officially part of the BIA, which embraces English Bay to Coal Harbour and Stanley Park to Burrard.) “Let’s make sure there’s something interesting on the next
block, and the the block after that,” Regan says. “We want something always happening on the ground floor.” The BIA welcomes higher density but with careful planning. “In some cases you may needed to add height, but in select areas. Keep the scale lower [in general] but there may be pockets of higher density.” The present configuration of businesses along the streets works well since it allows independent restaurant and retail owners the chance to start small. It’s these small businesses which give life to the busy neighborhoods. While the West End is very walkable, there are times when you need to drive. Parking is an issue, especially on the side streets which some apartment dwellers use as a less expensive option than parking below ground in their buildings. The BIA would like rush-hour parking restrictions removed in some areas because they are needed as a way of enhancing traffic flow. An easier process for permits for such things as patio extensions would also go a long way in helping small businesses.
Stephen Regan, the West End BIA’s executive director, envisions a Translink loop along Davie, Denman, Robson and Granville Streets. Martha Perkins photo These points are all included in the BIA’s Streetscape and Design Guideline Vision, which will be the basis of discussions with the
city about the neighborhood’s future. For details go to WestEndBIA.com and Vancouver.ca/ westendplan.
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THE WEST END Not just the West End Here are other Car Free Days in the city.
June 15 and 16: Kitsilano: Block parties specifically for local residents, from noon to 6pm.
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said board chair Maddy Kipling. “We believe fewer cars means more community.” The festival, which temporarily closes portions of popular neighbourhoods to vehicular traffic, takes place in the West End, Kitsilano, Commercial Drive and Main Street. The West End festival is Sunday June 16 on Denman Street between Davie and Robson. It features the penny drive (donate your pennies), PuddleCity Arts near Central Bistro, a kid zone, square dancing, Theater Under the Stars, acoustic music, a Tango Meats BBQ and the new pet parade from 2 to 4pm at Barclay and Denmen. The festival runs from noon to 6pm while this portion of the street will be closed from 10am to 8pm.
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or me, nothing explains Car Free Day better than that awkward, disorientating moment at the very beginning of the day, when the barricades go up and the stream of cars and trucks is gone from the streets,” wrote Car Free Vancouver Society Board member Joey Moore in a guest editorial for Vancouver is Awesome. Car Free Day is a volunteer-based event, aimed at rejuvenating Vancouver’s community culture and pride. “The goal is to reconnect people in their communities, during our funfor-free festival. We really just hope to re-engage people in local arts, local businesses and local non-profits,”
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Grocery shopping as a social activity By Martha Perkins
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hen you own your own business, and that business is open seven days a week, from morning to night, the days can seem very long. But when your store is in the West End and your customers become your friends, your days can get a whole lot brighter. “The one thing that keeps me going it is the customers. They’re fantastic,” says Fanny Lo, who runs West Valley Produce with her husband Andrew and son Colin. “They say something nice and that makes my day. I’m not tired any more.” Thirty-eight years ago, Andrew Lo found an old house for sale on Bute Street, just off Davie. It wasn’t the house he liked; it was its location across from a BC Liquor Store. He also loved the neighborhood which had just experienced a huge growth spurt. He bought the house, tore it down and built the grocery store which soon became a neighborhood fixture. For 30 years, he ran it mostly on his own, with Colin and his brother Nick helping out after school and on weekends. Then, eight years ago, Colin, who has a degree in marketing from UBC, and Fanny, who used to work at Sun Life, joined him. West Valley Produce is as eclectic as the neighborhood. In the front it’s a typical fruit and vegetable store, but once you’re inside, one room
leads to a warren of shelves of products from around the world. All cultures and cuisines find a home here. “Vancouver is a melting pot,” says Colin, who loves that the West End is such a mix of people. “There aren’t ‘ethnic’ products. It’s all mainstream. There’s nothing out of the norm now. You won’t walk in and think, ‘Wow, what is this?’” While there are larger, well-supported grocery stores nearby, West Valley Produce also fills the niche for people who seek out that neighborhood feel. Some customers come once or twice a day, stopping by the store for a chat as much as to buy something. Most of the staff and customers know one another, and now second-generation shoppers are dropping by the store. “Businesses like ours serve a purpose,” says Colin. Competition is always a source of pressure, but “there’s still a place for us as long as you grow with the times and are reflective of the market. “We listen to the neighborhood and we care. We’ve been here for so long.” As time passes, Colin is making most of the major decisions. “You can never replace my father’s experience but at the same time I have a marketing degree from UBC so we have to combine our strengths to grow the business,” he says. “You can’t have one without the other. We both have to understand that. It’s how it is. It’s how it’s always been. And it’s how it will be.”
Colin Lo is now the second-generation Lo running West Valley Produce, where some of the customers are second-generation, too. Laura McGuire photo
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nited Kingdom, Canada and Thailand — show us what you’ve got. Vancouver’s beaches and skies will light up again for the 23rd annual Honda Celebration of Light on July 27, July 31 and August 3. The fireworks competition will begin each of the three nights promptly at 10pm over English Bay, rain or shine. Music simulcast can be heard on SHORE 104.3 FM. • July 27 – United Kingdom; Pyro2000.co.uk • July 31 – Canada; FireworksSpectaculars.com • August 3 – Thailand ThailandFirework.net
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Say it with art Love the West End? It’s one of the city’s most creative places
about West End arts and artists, “exposing the unexposed.” If you’d like to suggest a story, or even write one or submit a piece of art, go to Tumblr. com/blog/gaspartmag. By Martha Perkins And if all of this seems too far in the future, go to Car Free Day on Denman Street this Sunday. (See page 12.) The Art Jam started on June 8, when n the most recent Census, nearly 10 per cent of young people gathered at the Empire Landmark all West End residents said their job was in the Hotel to paint small canvases that celebrate what arts and culture sector. That’s 4,100 people out they love about the West End. People are invited to of a population of 45,000, making the West End add to the project on June 16 by dropping by the the most creative neighbourhood in Vancouver. booth at outside When you’ve got it, King George Secflaunt it. ondary School on Thanks to grants from Denman between the Vancouver Foundation Haro and Robson through Gordon Neighbetween noon and bourhood House, West End 6pm. Paint your arts advocates have several heart out! arts-based projects in the The winner will works. be chosen at the On June 24, residents close of Car Free are invited to share their Day and awarded creative vision for the a $100 prize. neighbourhood at an arts Each of the open house. Do you think art tiles is being there should be an arts photographed and centre? Or an arts market? will be displayed How can people pool their on the Facebook resources to make their page of the Stewartistic ventures more art Stephenson feasible? And just who are Modern Art Galall these artistic people? lery. The art will Wouldn’t it be nice to meet also be displayed one another? in various public These four paintings from last Saturday’s Youth Art The time and location areas and will be Jam will adorn volunteers’ t-shirts at this Sunday’s have yet to be confirmed. included in the Car Free Day to inspire others to get involved. ArtGo to Tumblr.com/blog/ City of Vancouver ists, clockwise from top left are, Mariska, Christine, westendarts for updates. West End ComSophie and Rachael. Tangible proof of the munity Plan. West End’s artistic bent — With thanks to West End arts advocate John will be found in GASP Art Mag, which will debut Hewson and Satomi Hirano. this fall. The glossy magazine will feature stories
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The Big Chop is an incredibly fun night of paddling on the waters of Vancouver harbour. Mount Equipment Co-Op’s Big Chop, taking
place every second Thursday all summer long, meets in Vanier Park, with its starting line under the Burrard Street Bridge. Feel the setting sun in your face and the warm summer breeze on your back. Paddle the scenic course as fast as you want and in no time you’ll be crossing the finish line with a big smile on your face. After the race stay for a cold drink, a tasty hotdog and the chance to win some amazing draw prizes. And new for 2013, organizers are moving the final race to a Saturday, Sept. 14 and calling it a “Super Chop” because it’s just that. The distances will be longer and the post-race party will be killer. There will be a BBQ, a band, beer and give away tons of great prizes. The Big Chop is open to SUP, surfskies, outriggers, kayaks and canoes. The next Chop is June 20 at 7pm. For more details and to register for the Super Chop, head to BigChop. ca.
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June 13 – 19, 2013
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