Community Projects

NORTH SHORE ART CRAWL

In January 2022, the North Van Arts staff decided to postpone the North Shore Art Crawl to the fall due to the rising rates of COVID-19 and historical flu and Covid-19 trend. The next in-person North Shore Art Crawl will be held October 14-16, 2022.

FILM SERIES

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and closure of Park & Tilford Cineplex Theatre has continued to put our Film Series on hold. Staff are working hard to revive this programme for 2023. We appreciate the patience of our community, and look forward to seeing everyone again soon!

COMMUNITY PROJECT VANCOUVER MURAL FESTIVAL

Summer 2021 we partnered with the Vancouver Mural Festival to support the production of four new murals for Edgemont Village in the District of North Vancouver, as part of VMF’s Festival Neighbourhoods community outreach program. With major support from the Edgemont Village Business Association, these murals were part of the plan to support economic recovery and local placemaking efforts. Original murals were created by artists Siobhan Joesph (Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw), Jessica Fortner, Kari Kristensen, and Cynthia Tran Vo that will enhance the Village landscape for years to come.

clockwise - Cynthia Tran Vo, Accompanied By Wildlife; Kari Kristensen, Coast Range Reflected; Siobhan Joseph, Taking Care of Animals; Jessica Fortner, Heron By Sea

NORTH VAN CITY MOSAIC JUNE 2020 – JULY 2022 ARTISTS Sandrine Pelissier, Sophie Babeanu Blake Williams

Public art piece ‘At Home’ is the final stage of the North Van City Mosaic project, one of five projects created by the Mayor’s Healthiest Small City Social Resiliency Collective, formed in June 2020 as a response to COVID-19.

Phase 1: June 2020-October 2021 Digital mosaic facilitated by local visual artist Sandrine Pelissier and expressive art therapist Sophie Babeanu. Anyone who lives, works or plays in the City of North Vancouver’ was invited to share their personal COVID-19 stories through words and images on the project’s website. Each of the individual art pieces submitted were combined to create a digital mosaic image. A digital flipbook documenting each of the submissions to the project can be found online on North Van Arts’ website.

Phase 2: ‘At Home’, installed June 2022 15th Street & Grand Boulevard, North Vancouver Created and executed by visual artist Blake Williams. Images and stories shared on the digital mosaic were selected to form a public art piece representing hope and resiliency. Images from the digital mosaic form ceramic tiles, interlaced with the artist’s interpretations, that create the abstract shape of four houses, each socially distanced six feet apart. The public art piece is a commemorative site; a place of gathering and reflection available to the community for the years and generations to come.

The North Van City Mosaic Committee, a sub-committee within the collective, consisted of Mayor Linda Buchanan and representatives from North Van Arts, United Way of the Lower Mainland, North Vancouver Recreation and Culture, Family Services of the North Shore, North Shore Neighbourhood House, and North Van School District 44.

LIVING LANE ARTIST

Otilia Savina Spantulescu

Living Lane Alley, located between 100 and 130 Lonsdale Avenue, is part of the City of North Vancouver’s PLAY initiative to turn public spaces into people spaces. In the fall of 2021,a textile work was installed and brightly lit with strings of light At Home, Public Art

Living Lane