Grey to Green

An Intersection Media Project

Community Introduction Event
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Date:   Sunday, September 27th.
Time:  From 3 pm to 7pm
Location:  150 Cordova Street – Parking Lot

“Grey to Green” is a unique introduction of community arts into an unlikely space: a parking lot and back alley in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Infrastructure improvements and programming will revitalize this formerly challenged space, turning it into a stage, a screen, and an outdoor gallery.

The purpose of this event is to introduce the community (residents, local arts organizations, other organizations, and businesses) to the recently refurbished parking lot at 150 Cordova Street. The event will preview for the community the future plans for the lot and surrounding lane area that include:

1) A mural project for the back wall of 319 Main Street.
2) An “Art Fence’ project that will turn the fence that surrounds the parking lot into a canvas for the local artists.
3) Special public events to be held by local arts and community groups in the lot.
4) The inclusion of the parking lot and laneways as a student design project at the BCIT Architectural Ecology Institute’s fall of 2009 class.
5) Future open-air movie nights – to be held in the renewed lot.

The Event will feature:
•Raymond Chow’s  “Fastest Draw in the West” painting competition featuring local artists and Raymond in a fast draw competition with a Raymond Chow print awarded to the winner.

•Booths set up to introduce the Art Fence and the Wall Mural projects to the community, with sign-up sheets for local artists that would like to be considered for these art-ventures.

•Tables for DTES arts organizations to introduce themselves and to encourage the networking of local arts groups. 

• Acoustic music will be performed by live ensembles and/or individual performers. A one hour “jam” session for downtown eastside musicians is part of the plan

• Looped video montage, of the lane’s transformation will be projected.  This footage will feature the ‘before’ and ‘after’ images of the lot.  

• Coffee and Sweets will be served.

Intersections would like to thank The City of Vancouver, District 319, William Vince Foundation, Terrafirm Enterprises and T. Moscone Bros.  for their support of the Grey to Green Lane Renewal project.

We would also like to thank A&B Partytime Rentals, Waves Coffee, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Sony Canada and MVCC for their support of the Grey to Green Introductory event.