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Hanging Baskets on East Hastings from PHS Community Services Society and Hastings Folk Garden Society in Vancouver DTES
Hanging baskets with Robbie and the team: every year PHS Community Service Society and the Hastings Folk Garden Society re-plant the hanging baskets that line E. Hastings:
A new bee hive for Hastings Folk Garden in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
The newest addition to Hastings Folk Garden is a brand new bee hive!
Downtown Eastside residents in the community garden program will have an exciting opportunity to learn about bee keeping.
Honey Bees bring so many benefits to our lives, flowers and vegetables including the sweet treat of delicious honey!
“Unique among all God’s creatures, only the honeybee improves the environment and preys not on any other species.” ~ Royden Brown
“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live?” ~ Albert Einstein
Hastings Folk Garden at 117 East Hastings, right beside InSite in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Excited DTES residents prepare Hastings Folk Garden for new planting season!
Below is Jim speaking about prepping the soil, planting seeds and having events!
Description
Our vision is: To create a welcoming, beautiful, safe place for community members to enjoy as a calm green space where they can engage in therepeutic activities; To link supportive programming from the Lifeskills Centre and greater PHS Community Service
Upcoming:
In March come get involved in preparing the garden for the growing season: turn over the soil, get your hands dirty, help us build planter boxes, benches and vertical garden space out of recycled materials! Come ask at Lifeskills if you want to get involved: tel 604 678 8278
In April the garden will be open Noon – 3 Weekdays for community access!
Smudges are Ongoing!
Aboriginal Front Door cares for a Native Plant Garden within the space!
Past Events have included Sprouting Workshops and Outdoor Movies, look for these again in the summer!
DTES HONORING ELDERS POW WOW on Sat Oct 15 in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
PHS (Portland Hotel Society) Community Services Society’s DTES Honoring Elder’s Pow Wow committee, invite you to share with us, a celebration to honor our elders who reside in the DTES with a traditional style pow wow.
Our elders come from all across ndn country, and rarely make it out to cultural events, so PHS Community Services Society pow wow committee want to bring a cultural celebration to them!
It will be held in the new park, protected by large tenting. Hope you can make it!
*The committee, respectfully invited our Tuesday night drums groups and dancers to participate.
*INVITED DRUMSs:
Love Medicine
Indian Time
Sitting Still Thunder
Oceanside Dakota
HOST DRUM: Oceanside Dakota who have support DTES events, actions over the years.
*DANCERS: Who will share about their style of dance:
(confirmed thus far:)
Curtis Joe: Men’s Chicken Dance
Riannon Nahanee: Women’s Fancy
Will Visser: Men’s Fancy
Jr. Waskewitch: Men’s Grass
Invited: Unconfirmed:
Keith Nahanee: Men’s Traditional
Women’s Traditional: Gloria Nahanee
Robin Prince: Women’s Jingle
VENDORS INFO: This event an exhibition style Pow Wow, no commercial tables please, but local artists can bring their own blanket to display their arts and crafts
**** ALL DANCERS WELCOME! ****
Emcee in Training: Ian Bee
Assisted by John Miller
Below are photos of hard working Downtown Eastside residents working on transforming the empty lot to a beautiful community gathering space.
The Portland Hotel Society is a non-profit organization that was created in 1993 to advocate, develop and implement creative and responsive services for persons living with concurrent disorders.
The Portland Hotel itself was initiated in 1991 by Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA). The Association converted a local hotel and named it after the US city of Portland, where Canadian organizers had been inspired by housing programs for homeless people. The facility was transferred to the Portland Hotel Society on its completion. The program moved to a new building (re-named the Portland Hotel) in the downtown eastside in 1999.
The program is funded by the British Columbia Housing and Mortgage Corporation (a provincial Crown corporation) and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.
PHS Hastings Folk Garden And The Lifeskills Centre Present: Sprouting Workshops and Movies in the Garden In Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Home sprouting workshops with Chris Thoreau
Growing sprouts at home is easy, affordable, and a great way to
improve your health! In just minutes a day you can grow all the
vitamins and minerals you need! Join Chris Thoreau as he walks you
through the steps of home sprouting. In seven days or less you’ll have
tasty, nutritious sprouts to eat whenever you like!
Chris is an urban farmer in Vancouver who specializes in soil-grown
sprouts. He holds a degree in Agroecology from UBC where he
specialized in soil science. Chris is a former certified organic
farmer and an IOIA trained organic inspector. Read more about Chris
and his sprouts at www.myurbanfarms.ca!
Sprouting Workshop #1
Wednesday, August 3, 10am-12pm
Sprouting Workshop #2
Wednesday, August 17, 10am-12pm
MOVIES IN THE GARDEN!
Tuesday, August 9, 9pm
The Rock
W/ Nick Cage, Sean Connery, and Ed Harris
“Losers always complain about doing their best….Winners go home and
**** the prom queen”.
Tuesday, August 23, 9pm
Face Off
W/ Nick Cage and John Travolta
“I want to take his face…off”.
Capacity: 30 people
Popcorn and juice provided!
PHS 17 E. Hastings St. Beside Insite.
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