Bulletin board in Fernwood Square, image taken by author.
Last month’s Placemaking Café felt like a success, we had a good discussion on “Greeting Neighbours” guided by our facilitator Mandy and connections were made!
Have you been wondering how you can get more involved in your community or neighbourhood? This year the Placemaking Network is hoping to give our community members more reasons and opportunities to gather and get to know each other. We’re thinking about ways we can host and nurture community: a book club, our LFL festival, painting a mural together, workshops are some of the ideas our Board is dreaming into. This month we’re hosting our second Placemaking Café of the year. If you are curious about showing up in community but not sure where to start, we’d like to offer up our Placemaking Cafés as an easy way into our community that will let you get to know about the ideas and actions the Placemaking Network is thinking about.
Each Placemaking Café will have different topics and themes that encourage us to connect and engage with our neighbourhoods, shared spaces and each other. If you have any ideas about topics you’d like us to discuss, we’d LOVE to hear from you.
Please join us for a guided conversation and exploration on the role and value of public physical bulletin boards and postering in cultivating place and neighbourhood. There will be prompts, some time for collecting your thoughts on your own, exploring in small groups, and bringing together the threads across the room.
We’ll have some snacks and refreshments available. This gathering is FREE to attend, but please register on Eventbrite to help us plan.
What: A guided conversation on PUBLIC BULLETIN BOARDS & POSTERING
When: Saturday April 18, 2-3:30pm (guided conversation part)
Where: NeighbourSpace, 708 Douglas St, beside the Victoria Conference Centre
Come and share your experiences, hopes, challenges, opinions, expertise, curiosity… Everyone is welcome, we’d love to meet you.
Doors: 1:45pm
Start: 2pm (please arrive on time so the conversation can build)
End of Guided Conversation: 3:30pm
Optional Open Conversation, Mingling: 3:30-4:30pm
There is an accessible entrance at street level and one accessible washroom.
The Greater Victoria Placemaking Network is a volunteer-run non-profit society whose mission is to inspire people, neighbourhoods and communities to create vibrant public places that promote health, happiness and well-being.
We are grateful to the City of Victoria for providing the NeighbourSpace for us to gather.
Guest Author Bio
Mandy Pearce Mandy is a member of the Placemaking Network (GVPN) who is interested in how placemaking can foster social connectedness, in particular how “places in space” develop as “places in our minds” once the build is complete.
