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DTES Street Market crew cleans up Victory Square in Vancouver
On a sunny Friday afternoon, a crew from the DTES Street Market cleans up Victory Square in Vancouver
208th DTES Street Market in Vancouver on Sun June 1, 2014
208th DTES Street Market and 22nd Street Market of 2014
Roland Clarke, Coordinator of the DTES Street Market says:
It was a beautiful day. The sun was out, and the weather was perfect.
The two coordinators spent most of the day at Victory Square for the Fair in the Square, and the market trundled along without them for most of the day.
Many buttons and flags were given away at the Fair in the Square, with our market at Pigeon Park operating for the first time on autopilot.
This was a great experiment. It was the first time that we actually ran two events on the same day, and shows that with a little planning, we can do a huge amount with scarce resources.
DTES Street Market at Fair in the Square 2014
DTES Street Market was very proud to be a part of Fair in the Square 2014. Thanks Central City Foundation for all your wonderful support!
207th DTES Street Market and 21th Street Market of 2014
207th DTES Street Market and 21th Street Market of 2014
Roland Clarke, Coordinator of the DTES Street Market says:
It was a great spring day despite the rain.
The rain started as a mere tinkle, then progressed to a downpour later in the afternoon.
We deployed all of our 10×10 canopy tents, and this helped the vendors survive the deluge. We had over 130 vendors despite the rain.
There were a number of good interactions with the police today. At least two vendors were escorted out of the market after selling questionable items. We made a point of thanking them, because these vendors were warned by volunteers earlier that their stuff was not allowed at the market. One vendor was selling clearly tagged items, and another had a bike that was quite suspect. Our volunteers reasonably can not lay a hand on a vendor, so asking them to leave is the limit of our powers. We welcome the help from the VPD to allow us to create an orderly, safe, and family friendly market.
Jacek constructed a number of new carts out of spare parts – using the HXBIA tool share tools – and they are working great. We were able to lower the weight per cart, and now have three table carts, instead of piling them on two.
Our constantly evolving operation keeps improving and allowing us to build a better market to serve the vendors of the DTES.
In many ways, we believe that we are turning a corner.
With a small boost in operational support for things like private security, improved perimeter fencing, and a proper vendor ID tag system, we know that we can eliminate much of the negative stereotype for our market, and create the tourist attraction that the DTES desperately needs.
206th DTES Street Market and 20th Street Market of 2014
206th DTES Street Market and 20th Street Market of 2014
Roland Clarke, Coordinator of the DTES Street Market says:
It was an amazing sunny day.
This was our Victoria Day market.
Like last week, we had an overflow of vendors, and needed to get out our hose and start washing the area around the corner on Cordova St.
We sent some volunteers to check on it at 11:30 and did not see any vendors. By 12:30 we already had an angry email from Steven, the manager of the Van Horne about having to get the hose out himself and chase the binners away. They were blocking the Queen store again.
We took the hose out and made sure that the binners did not come back. A number of exchanges between the coordinators and the Van Horne people suggested that they were happy with the outcome.
We did have an incident with one of the illicit drinkers getting out of hand. We were forced to resolve the issue ourselves.
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