Greater Victoria Placemaking Network (GVPN) and the City of Victoria have teamed up to coordinate improvements to the William Street Greenway in Vic West. This coming spring, a road mural will be installed at the upgraded crosswalk at Langford and Hudson Street. The City will add … [Read more...]
Explore local places on IG
In the spirit of the flâneur (one who saunters around observing urban life), three local Instagram accounts share cool perspectives (and pics, of course) on place in Greater Victoria. Masami Teramachi tells CHEK News she 'has fallen love with Victoria' and walks whenever … [Read more...]
Curbside Colour brings art & history to streets
Greater Victoria Placemaking Network's Curbside Colour project is one of six community-led projects that has won funding through the City of Victoria's 2021 Participatory Budget initiative. Projects that promote 'Neighbourhood Spaces' were screened by a volunteer Steering … [Read more...]
Fence painting as placemaking
It was a long grey-blue fence, the kind of blank, uniform surface that often gets tagged. And so it got tagged. Then one spring day a group of street artists approached the owner with an offer. Could they create something a little more interesting on his fence, something that … [Read more...]
