Tales From

The West End

Wednesday, March 20th, 2019

 

4:30pm

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"Tales From the West End” is an evening of story-telling where we explore and experience our community through stories about our common past.  

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Wednesday, March 20th, 2019,  4:30pm to 6:00pm,

Story telling from 4:45pm-5:45pm

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J Bean Cafe, 1209 Bidwell St., (Bidwell & Davie)

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Our March storyteller is editor & publisher of 

The West End Journal, Kevin Dale McKeown

revisiting the spring 1970

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As part of his “People’s Park” story, Kevin recalls the spring of 1971 when Vancouver's  Yippie movement occupied and built a tent city on the proposed site of a new Four Seasons Hotel at the entrance to Stanley Park -- where Devonian Harbour Park is today. 

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Kevin was in the thick of the action, helping out at the camp kitchen. The protest lasted a year, Mayor Tom Campbell called it "a breakdown of society”, and obviously the campers / protesters won the battle. Today the main attraction at the site is not a glitzy international hotel but the bronze statue of a woman sitting on a park bench, apparently searching in her purse for the glasses we can all see sitting atop her head. But things could have gone differently.

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Meeting at JJ Bean on Bidwell, in what was known in the past as "Maxine's Hideaway".

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Admission is FREE for this community event. 

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J Bean Cafe, 1209 Bidwell St., (Bidwell & Davie)

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Complimentary coffee and tea thanks to JJ Bean.

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You are encouraged to listen, sketch and bring your own stories and historic photographs of the West End to share with your community.

 

 

Thanks to out community sponsors:

JJ Bean Cafe

WE Arts

Heritage Vancouver 

Minuteman Press Downtown

&

The West End Journal

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Each month we feature a different speaker:

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March 20th is our final storytelling of the spring 2019 series. 

Check back to learn more about our fall events

and September featured speaker.

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2019 Dates :

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Local Storytelling ~ Once a Month ~ September through March

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Wednesday, January 16 ~ from 4:30 to 6:00

Sunday, February 24 ~ from 4:30 to 6:00

Wednesday, March 20 ~ from 4:30 to 6:00

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