City of Vancouver Seeks Engagement to Redevelop West End Community Hub

The City invites the public to attend the virtual launch of W.E. Connect, an engagement process that will help guide future redevelopment of the West End Community Hub, the site that includes the West End Community Centre, King George Secondary School, Joe Fortes Library, and other important facilities.

Reconciliation is at the heart of this process, and the City invites the community to hear stories that have defined this land for millennia at our online launch event, W.E. Connect: Coast Salish Chronicles of the West End, on Tuesday, September 21 from 7-9 pm. To register, visit shapeyourcity.ca/weconnect.

At the event, the public will listen and learn from local Indigenous artists and Knowledge Holders including:

• Chrystal Sparrow: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), artist, carver

• Aaron Nelson-Moody: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Knowledge Holder and carver

• Gabriel George: səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Knowledge Holder

Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the stories’ key ideas and help create a vision for the renewed West End Community Hub. They can also share their own experiences of the neighbourhood, people and land, through the online West End Experiences survey or in person by attending more than 10 themed community workshops in September and October.

This session will inform a series of surveys and workshops taking place early 2022, which will help develop a draft plan of the preferred option to the community for feedback.

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