Vancouver Public Space Network
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vancouverpublicspace.ca
It's the great pumpkin! Happy Halloween everyone. It's beautiful to see the city adorned in all sorts of colourful and spooktacular costumes. Ghouls and goblins a-wandering; little urban explorers everywhere!
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's the great pumpkin! Happy Halloween everyone. It's beautiful to see the city adorned in all sorts of colourful and spooktacular costumes. Ghouls and goblins a-wandering; little urban explorers everywhere!
*** HOLD THE DATE ***
Our next volunteer orientation on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30pm. We'll use the time to provide an overview of the VPSN, and to talk about some ongoing and upcoming public space and placemaking initiatives.
RSVP: volunteer [at] vancouverpublicspace [dot] ca
Our next volunteer orientation on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30pm. We'll use the time to provide an overview of the VPSN, and to talk about some ongoing and upcoming public space and placemaking initiatives.
RSVP: volunteer [at] vancouverpublicspace [dot] ca
October 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
*** HOLD THE DATE ***
Our next volunteer orientation on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30pm. We'll use the time to provide an overview of the VPSN, and to talk about some ongoing and upcoming public space and placemaking initiatives.
RSVP: volunteer [at] vancouverpublicspace [dot] ca
Our next volunteer orientation on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30pm. We'll use the time to provide an overview of the VPSN, and to talk about some ongoing and upcoming public space and placemaking initiatives.
RSVP: volunteer [at] vancouverpublicspace [dot] ca
Coming up Oct 18 (11am-4pm) - Repair Fest 2025 at Kamloops-Hastings Plaza. Celebrate International Repair Day with the Patchwork Repair Hub.
Bring your sweaters with moth holes, broken electronics, cracked ceramics, and more. They'll help you fix them! ❤️🩹🧵Info: instagram.com/repairfest
Bring your sweaters with moth holes, broken electronics, cracked ceramics, and more. They'll help you fix them! ❤️🩹🧵Info: instagram.com/repairfest
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Coming up Oct 18 (11am-4pm) - Repair Fest 2025 at Kamloops-Hastings Plaza. Celebrate International Repair Day with the Patchwork Repair Hub.
Bring your sweaters with moth holes, broken electronics, cracked ceramics, and more. They'll help you fix them! ❤️🩹🧵Info: instagram.com/repairfest
Bring your sweaters with moth holes, broken electronics, cracked ceramics, and more. They'll help you fix them! ❤️🩹🧵Info: instagram.com/repairfest
A note of gratitude for all the beautiful parks, plazas, beaches, high streets, community centres and neighbourhood houses, libraries... and other public spaces in Vancouver - along with the many folks that look after this incredible commonwealth.
Wishing you all a very happy thanksgiving!
Wishing you all a very happy thanksgiving!
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A note of gratitude for all the beautiful parks, plazas, beaches, high streets, community centres and neighbourhood houses, libraries... and other public spaces in Vancouver - along with the many folks that look after this incredible commonwealth.
Wishing you all a very happy thanksgiving!
Wishing you all a very happy thanksgiving!
The future of the park board will be put to a public referendum. We support the province introducing this requirement.
October 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The future of the park board will be put to a public referendum. We support the province introducing this requirement.
This weekend: a Mid-Autumn festival and "Journey Through the Five Senses - at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden.
📅 October 4 - 5, 2025
⏰ 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St
🎟️ Child (ages 5 -12): $8 | General: $10
📅 October 4 - 5, 2025
⏰ 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St
🎟️ Child (ages 5 -12): $8 | General: $10
October 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This weekend: a Mid-Autumn festival and "Journey Through the Five Senses - at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden.
📅 October 4 - 5, 2025
⏰ 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St
🎟️ Child (ages 5 -12): $8 | General: $10
📅 October 4 - 5, 2025
⏰ 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St
🎟️ Child (ages 5 -12): $8 | General: $10
On Truth and Reconciliation Day, we take this opportunity to honour the survivors of Residential schools and think of the children who never returned home, their families and communities, and everyone who carries the burden of their loss. /2
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
On Truth and Reconciliation Day, we take this opportunity to honour the survivors of Residential schools and think of the children who never returned home, their families and communities, and everyone who carries the burden of their loss. /2
The Granville Street Block Party is on today and Sunday. All sorts of fun and games to be had in the heart of the city!
August 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The Granville Street Block Party is on today and Sunday. All sorts of fun and games to be had in the heart of the city!
Meanwhile, in #Yaletown, several large butterflies have alighted at #BillCurtisSquare. Beautiful!
August 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Meanwhile, in #Yaletown, several large butterflies have alighted at #BillCurtisSquare. Beautiful!
At the same time, the new permanent design for Bute/Robson plaza continues to take shape. It's almost nearing completion, and looking good!
August 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
At the same time, the new permanent design for Bute/Robson plaza continues to take shape. It's almost nearing completion, and looking good!
Sidewalks along key stretches of Robson Street have been widened - providing a more generous environment for people walking and rolling. The street feels more comfortable as a result, with less lanes for cars and more lanes for public life (and amenities like this rain garden).
August 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Sidewalks along key stretches of Robson Street have been widened - providing a more generous environment for people walking and rolling. The street feels more comfortable as a result, with less lanes for cars and more lanes for public life (and amenities like this rain garden).
Weds, Aug 20 @ 6pm - Join us for the VPSN "Public Space Ketch-up!"
A summertime picnic, a gathering of urbanists, placemakers, artists and city-builders – all within one of the sweetest parks in the city.
Free, but registration requested. Details via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-spa...
A summertime picnic, a gathering of urbanists, placemakers, artists and city-builders – all within one of the sweetest parks in the city.
Free, but registration requested. Details via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-spa...
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Weds, Aug 20 @ 6pm - Join us for the VPSN "Public Space Ketch-up!"
A summertime picnic, a gathering of urbanists, placemakers, artists and city-builders – all within one of the sweetest parks in the city.
Free, but registration requested. Details via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-spa...
A summertime picnic, a gathering of urbanists, placemakers, artists and city-builders – all within one of the sweetest parks in the city.
Free, but registration requested. Details via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-spa...
A warm summer's evening... with a band striking a note at the Beatty Street Drill Hall. Public space serendipity.
July 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
A warm summer's evening... with a band striking a note at the Beatty Street Drill Hall. Public space serendipity.
This Friday, a public space treat!
Classic Italian commedia dell'arte at Pandora Park (Franklin & Templeton, 3pm) and the outdoor piazza at the Italian Cultural Centre (Grandview Hwy & Slocan, 5pm). Both shows free, fun, and fantastic.
Classic Italian commedia dell'arte at Pandora Park (Franklin & Templeton, 3pm) and the outdoor piazza at the Italian Cultural Centre (Grandview Hwy & Slocan, 5pm). Both shows free, fun, and fantastic.
July 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This Friday, a public space treat!
Classic Italian commedia dell'arte at Pandora Park (Franklin & Templeton, 3pm) and the outdoor piazza at the Italian Cultural Centre (Grandview Hwy & Slocan, 5pm). Both shows free, fun, and fantastic.
Classic Italian commedia dell'arte at Pandora Park (Franklin & Templeton, 3pm) and the outdoor piazza at the Italian Cultural Centre (Grandview Hwy & Slocan, 5pm). Both shows free, fun, and fantastic.
Vancouver's public realm incorporates aspects of architectural heritage - sometimes complete buildings, and sometimes just the building face or façade.
Check out the following project downtown - at Robson and Beatty.
Check out the following project downtown - at Robson and Beatty.
July 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Vancouver's public realm incorporates aspects of architectural heritage - sometimes complete buildings, and sometimes just the building face or façade.
Check out the following project downtown - at Robson and Beatty.
Check out the following project downtown - at Robson and Beatty.
Keeping cool under the whispering willow. Douglas Park (Heather and W 20th, in #RileyPark).
Let's hear it for our tree friends, providing shade and calm, a soothing rustle and respite on a hot summer's day.
Let's hear it for our tree friends, providing shade and calm, a soothing rustle and respite on a hot summer's day.
July 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Keeping cool under the whispering willow. Douglas Park (Heather and W 20th, in #RileyPark).
Let's hear it for our tree friends, providing shade and calm, a soothing rustle and respite on a hot summer's day.
Let's hear it for our tree friends, providing shade and calm, a soothing rustle and respite on a hot summer's day.
Street poster of the day:
"Room for Rent... Accessibility can vary due to partial detachment from local spacetime grid..."
Dunsmuir, between Cambie and Hamilton.
"Room for Rent... Accessibility can vary due to partial detachment from local spacetime grid..."
Dunsmuir, between Cambie and Hamilton.
July 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Street poster of the day:
"Room for Rent... Accessibility can vary due to partial detachment from local spacetime grid..."
Dunsmuir, between Cambie and Hamilton.
"Room for Rent... Accessibility can vary due to partial detachment from local spacetime grid..."
Dunsmuir, between Cambie and Hamilton.
Summer nights are for sitting on a park bench, catching up, taking in cool jumps, and admiring a fine mural
-- in this case Deborah Sparrow's "Blanketing the City IV" ("showcasing the resurgence and significance of Coast Salish weaving"). Cathedral Square, Downtown.
-- in this case Deborah Sparrow's "Blanketing the City IV" ("showcasing the resurgence and significance of Coast Salish weaving"). Cathedral Square, Downtown.
June 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Summer nights are for sitting on a park bench, catching up, taking in cool jumps, and admiring a fine mural
-- in this case Deborah Sparrow's "Blanketing the City IV" ("showcasing the resurgence and significance of Coast Salish weaving"). Cathedral Square, Downtown.
-- in this case Deborah Sparrow's "Blanketing the City IV" ("showcasing the resurgence and significance of Coast Salish weaving"). Cathedral Square, Downtown.
TODAY. National Indigenous Peoples Day events:
- Block Party Celebration, Carnegie CC, 12-9
- Music & dance at Grandview Pk, 12-4
- Hotlatch - all day party at the Birdhouse
- Katisha Paul & Steven Seegerts at Kitsilano Showboat 7-9
Artwork: “Syewá:l” ("Ancestors"), by Zac George, Skokaylem
- Block Party Celebration, Carnegie CC, 12-9
- Music & dance at Grandview Pk, 12-4
- Hotlatch - all day party at the Birdhouse
- Katisha Paul & Steven Seegerts at Kitsilano Showboat 7-9
Artwork: “Syewá:l” ("Ancestors"), by Zac George, Skokaylem
June 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TODAY. National Indigenous Peoples Day events:
- Block Party Celebration, Carnegie CC, 12-9
- Music & dance at Grandview Pk, 12-4
- Hotlatch - all day party at the Birdhouse
- Katisha Paul & Steven Seegerts at Kitsilano Showboat 7-9
Artwork: “Syewá:l” ("Ancestors"), by Zac George, Skokaylem
- Block Party Celebration, Carnegie CC, 12-9
- Music & dance at Grandview Pk, 12-4
- Hotlatch - all day party at the Birdhouse
- Katisha Paul & Steven Seegerts at Kitsilano Showboat 7-9
Artwork: “Syewá:l” ("Ancestors"), by Zac George, Skokaylem
Cambie and 18th Plaza, in #CambieVillage, is one of five pop-up public spaces that are receiving upgrades this summer.
The redesigned spaces will transform asphalt roadways and temporary fixtures into permanent public squares. #TacticalUrbanism
The redesigned spaces will transform asphalt roadways and temporary fixtures into permanent public squares. #TacticalUrbanism
June 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Cambie and 18th Plaza, in #CambieVillage, is one of five pop-up public spaces that are receiving upgrades this summer.
The redesigned spaces will transform asphalt roadways and temporary fixtures into permanent public squares. #TacticalUrbanism
The redesigned spaces will transform asphalt roadways and temporary fixtures into permanent public squares. #TacticalUrbanism
Getting ready for a night of music and dancing... underneath the butterflies!
#BillCurtisSquare in #Yaletown hosts jazzy get-togethers throughout the summer. A fun way to enliven this downtown plaza.
#BillCurtisSquare in #Yaletown hosts jazzy get-togethers throughout the summer. A fun way to enliven this downtown plaza.
June 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Getting ready for a night of music and dancing... underneath the butterflies!
#BillCurtisSquare in #Yaletown hosts jazzy get-togethers throughout the summer. A fun way to enliven this downtown plaza.
#BillCurtisSquare in #Yaletown hosts jazzy get-togethers throughout the summer. A fun way to enliven this downtown plaza.
Junction Market, at the foot of Granville Street, uses shipping containers to create small-scale commercial spaces for local artisans - like the good folks at Nutri Haven.
It's also a great way to activate a once quiet privately-owned public space. #JunctionMarket #GranvilleSquare #POPS
It's also a great way to activate a once quiet privately-owned public space. #JunctionMarket #GranvilleSquare #POPS
June 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Junction Market, at the foot of Granville Street, uses shipping containers to create small-scale commercial spaces for local artisans - like the good folks at Nutri Haven.
It's also a great way to activate a once quiet privately-owned public space. #JunctionMarket #GranvilleSquare #POPS
It's also a great way to activate a once quiet privately-owned public space. #JunctionMarket #GranvilleSquare #POPS
Have you seen the brand new plaza on Kitchener Street, just west of #CommercialDrive. A great addition to the neighbourhood!
Big props to Livia Forno e Vino - the restaurant next-door - for championing the creation of this new public space. @liviasweets
Big props to Livia Forno e Vino - the restaurant next-door - for championing the creation of this new public space. @liviasweets
June 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Have you seen the brand new plaza on Kitchener Street, just west of #CommercialDrive. A great addition to the neighbourhood!
Big props to Livia Forno e Vino - the restaurant next-door - for championing the creation of this new public space. @liviasweets
Big props to Livia Forno e Vino - the restaurant next-door - for championing the creation of this new public space. @liviasweets
Even though they are called rain gardens, these examples of blue green infrastructure work year 'round -- providing habitat, supporting water conservation, and adding a splash of colour to neighbourhoods.
L. St. George Rainway (St. George + E 7th)
R. Mosaic Greenway (Woodland + E 2nd)
L. St. George Rainway (St. George + E 7th)
R. Mosaic Greenway (Woodland + E 2nd)
June 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Even though they are called rain gardens, these examples of blue green infrastructure work year 'round -- providing habitat, supporting water conservation, and adding a splash of colour to neighbourhoods.
L. St. George Rainway (St. George + E 7th)
R. Mosaic Greenway (Woodland + E 2nd)
L. St. George Rainway (St. George + E 7th)
R. Mosaic Greenway (Woodland + E 2nd)
The Columbus Plaza at Clark and Grandview Hwy. For 38 years running, the loneliest public space in the city.
Part of a suite of "multicultural plazas" that were installed along the Expo Line.
Part of a suite of "multicultural plazas" that were installed along the Expo Line.
June 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The Columbus Plaza at Clark and Grandview Hwy. For 38 years running, the loneliest public space in the city.
Part of a suite of "multicultural plazas" that were installed along the Expo Line.
Part of a suite of "multicultural plazas" that were installed along the Expo Line.