Help Design the Grandview-Woodland Community Mural (Workshop 1)

Memory is power. Imagination is action!

Join us in shaping a new public mural that will stretch across the Woodland Bike Bridge in Grandview-Woodland.

This workshop invites neighbours, organizers, artists, families, elders, youth — anyone connected to this area — to help imagine what belongs on that wall. Through reflection, conversation, and hands-on artmaking, we’ll gather the stories, symbols, and shared values that will guide the mural design.

Together, we’ll explore:

• What has mattered here?
• What matters now?
• What do we want to grow next?

Using archival images, gentle movement, and creative conversation, we’ll listen to one another and respond through drawing, collage, mark-making, and texture. This is your chance to leave a mark — and help shape the visual language of the mural itself.

There will be three artist-led stations, each holding space for a different moment in time:

Past, Neighbourhood memories, local histories, and lived stories.

Present, What’s happening now — relationships, challenges, care, and shared needs.

Future, Hopes, bold ideas, and the kinds of connection we want to see grow.

You can spend time at one station or move through all three. Each station offers a slightly different creative approach, working with archival imagery, noticing what’s around us, and responding through oil pastels, collage, rubbings, and textured materials.

This is a space to think together, feel together, and make something together.

Stay for the full 2-hour experience and go deeper with guided reflection and layered artmaking.

Passing by? You’re welcome to drop in. Contribute in 5–10 minutes through postcards, quick prompts, or mark-making. You can even take a card home and return it at the next workshop.

This mural will carry the voices and visions of the people who live, work, and care about Grandview-Woodland.

We’ll gather themes, symbols, and stories from each session and translate them into a mural that reflects the neighbourhood’s history, resilience, care, and imagination.

This project builds on past community organizing and ongoing collaborations rooted in collective care and neighbourhood strength.

This project was initiated by artists Allison Chow, Carol, and Emily, who came together to imagine a mural shaped directly by community voice.

They are joined by Serena, whose background in mixed methodologies and community data practices helps translate stories and visual contributions into themes that inform the mural design.

Dawson, a longtime neighbourhood connector and informant, brings deep local knowledge and lived experience of Grandview-Woodland to the process.

Together, the team blends art, listening, research, and relationship-building to create a mural rooted in shared memory and collective imagination.

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