Cameron and Ashley getting ready for the Round House Community Centre exhibition Field Guides highlighting the work of all the current field house artists in residence. Opening on Thursday, Sept. 15 from 6-8.
chART will be featuring our We Are Here project including our “interactive” map of Marpole and a take-away map of favourite places in Marpole as presented by the local community. Find out the hidden gems of Marpole for a local point of view.
Hope to see you there!
Oak Park Fieldhouse is excited to participate in State of the Practice: Fieldguides, an exhibition of the city’s artist fieldhouses at the Roundhouse Community Centre.
Come join us on Thursday September 14, 6-8pm for an opening reception and get your Marpole-made community map with over 100 of your neighbours’ favourite spots in the area!
Find out more at http://roundhouse.ca/events/state-practice-fieldguides/
The Emily Carr University mural class, based at the Oak Park Fieldhouse, has been busy this summer and their amazing design can be seen at the corner of 64th and Granville Street on the wall at Starbuck’s.
The class was has been working away this week, led by chART’s amazing Ashley Guindon. Today was the community painting day, when Marpole residents could join in the fun under the gentle guidance of the students. Yes, it is like colouring in public!
As always, it was wonderful to share the experience of creating for the community with the community. Thanks to all the people who came by to paint, chat, and offer encouragement. Walk or drive on by and check out the mural for yourself and see if you can find the Anna’s hummingbird — Vancouver’s “official bird” for 2017-18.
It is that time of year and at the Oak Park Fieldhouse we are getting ready for our annual honey harvest. In addition to our regular hives, we have a Flow Hive. So while we were checking our hives in preparation for the big harvest later this month, we took the opportunity to collect a few bottles off our Flow Hive. It really does just flow off the tap. One still needs to do all the work of taking proper care of your bees, but it was a treat to simply watch the honey drain right into the jar!
A HUGE thank you to Langara instructor, Brian Campbell (and chART member) and his whole wonderful class for the new BEE GARDEN at the fieldhouse. As part of his Landscape Design class at Langara, Brian used Oak Park as a case-study for his team to design and install a garden to support not only our educational hives and native bees, but also our ongoing programming to promote art and ecology. It was a crazy day as we also had our mural refresh happening over on Granville Street. Good thing chART is a collective, because sometimes it takes an army of us to get everything done!
Those who walk past Oak Park Fieldhouse regularly on their way to the Marpole Oakridge Community Centre know that our garden was already bee-friendly, if not a bit wild. As our lawn sign can attest, we are “going for the gold” with our water-free lawn and the beautiful dandelions were almost waist high — a mini meadow.
But now the space has transformed into a demo garden with new bumblebee houses tucked in amongst the new planting. Come by and see if you can spot them and the amazing range of native bees that share the space with our honey bees.
While you will see us out there with our strategic watering of the new plants, we are still “going for the gold” with our lawn. Let’s all remember to be water-wise.
Led by chART’s mural maiden, artist Ashley Guindon, Marpole’s original street mural “Fractal” got a re-fresh during the summer event hosted by the Marpole BIA this Saturday. Thanks to all the amazing student volunteers who brought this mural back to life. Also thanks to Marpole BIA executive director, Claudia Laroye, who is always there with unending support and coffee runs.
Watch for more murals coming this summer to both Marpole and Mount Pleasant from chART and their mentored ECU student art collective GHIA.
