Blog Posts tagged: DTES
Can you give me an example of the words in your head and how they might be used while in Canada?
The following poem was read by Brad Cran (City of Vancouver Poet Laureate) at the city’s new tent village — which was set up yesterday afternoon on a vacant lot at Hastings and Abbott Street, in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The... Continue reading »
Women’s Memorial March
A crowd of several thousand people gathered in front of the Carnegie Centre for the 19th annual Women’s Memorial March. The event honours the lives of missing and murdered women – not only in the Downtown Eastside but across the... Continue reading »
Storyeum Shelter Petition
Storyeum Shelter Petition VPSN member Audrey L. has started a petition to use the recently-closed Storyeum building (on Water Street in Gastown) as a temporary housing shelter to help get people off the streets. As she notes, “the City owns... Continue reading »
