Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival Brings Communities Together October 13-25, 2015 Art, Culture, Food and Sustainability – As We Are, Together
From October 13 until October 25, 2015 Vancouver’s Sustenance Festival focuses on making connections in your communities through a series of events focused on food preservation, gardening, and the right to food.
This festival is city-wide festival and includes everything from food inspired art exhibits to local food workshops on food preparation and gardening, potlucks, talks, walks, and more – all taking place in community centres and public spaces throughout Vancouver.
There are almost fifty events in this 7th year of Vancouver Sustenance Festival
Highlights
UPSTREAM Moving Images of Salmon…A collection of local artists’ work
October 10 until November 1, 2015 Roundhouse Community Centre Great Hall
Over the past few decades many artists and activists on BC’s coast have been moved by the struggle of wild Pacific salmon to healthfully inhabit the waters in and around our now extensively developed urban environment. With settlement of the last century, the salmon’s old home streams had disappeared and now lay beneath the buildings and blacktop of major cities like Vancouver.
In this unique and timely exhibit we will explore the questions: what traditional significance did the iconic salmon have to our First Peoples, then and now? How can the humans who live in the salmon’s ancestral home today make the connections between their urban life and the current health of the ocean? And much more!
YUMMY! A Right to Food Variety Show
October 16 Roundhouse Exhibition Hall 7pm-9pm (doors open at 6:30pm) Pay-what-you-can
A wildly entertaining show featuring a variety of fun and cheeky performances centered on the theme of “Food Justice” – activism no laughing matter? Once you are treated to the comedic delights of the hilarious MC and local performers, you just may eat your words! You might even walk away with a deeper understanding of the relationship of food to social justice as it plays out in our communities. This is a social event for people of all ages. Snack, chat, and have fun! And don’t miss the interactive artwork, food-related community info tables and a Demonstration Food Friendly Neighbourhood curated by Village Vancouver with displays, information and chickens!
RIPE 2015! – Harvest Celebration Dinner
October 18 Roundhouse Community Centre 4:00-8:00 PM
The annual RIPE Dinner is a true celebration of the harvest – a showcase of local ingredients from our farms and producers paired with some of Vancouver’s top chefs and restaurants, including Chef Andrea Carlson of Burdock & Co, Chef Chris Whittaker of Forage, Chef Meeru Dhalwala of Vij’s Rangoli, Chef Ned Bell of Yew seafood + bar, and Chef Quang Dang of West Restaurant. RIPE 2015 will feature 10 unique culinary creation stations, craft beverages and dessert tastings artfully prepared from fresh, seasonal and sustainably harvest food.
Neighbour Savour VI – Potluck
October 21 Heritage Hall 3102 Main St. (6-9 pm) Cost: Free and open to everyone!
Village Vancouver’s fabulous 6th annual family friendly, zero waste community potluck celebration for 300! Neighbour Savour features a great lineup of Live Local Music, Community Info Tables, a Kids Area and activities, a Seed Sharing Library and Seed Swap, Emily Carr Collaborative Design Project Display, As We Know It Community Art Project, Loads of delicious food (food from your garden is encouraged), and much more. Bring some food or a non-alcoholic bevvie to share, hang out and meet your neighbours, and have FUN! Neighbour Savour is supported by a Neighbourhood Small Grant from the Vancouver Foundation.
Complete Listing
8-Oct-15
Water Kefir: Home-made Fermented Sodas
Strathcona Community Centre
11-Oct-15
Recyclable Home Gardening
Sunset Community Centre
11-Oct-15
Kits Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner
TBD
13-Oct-15
Introduction to Seed Saving
Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre
13-Oct-15
Intro to Cheese Making
Kerrisdale Community Centre
14-Oct-15
Spice it Up – Intro to Spices
Strathcona Community Centre
14-Oct-15
Soups for all Ages
Sunset Community Centre
14-Oct-15
2016 Village Vancouver Gardening & Permaculture Opportunities Info Session
Homesteaders Emporium
14-Oct-15
Heal Your Body – Indian Food Made Easy and Fun
Britannia
15-Oct-15
Kits Village Vancouver Plastic Recycling Depot
TBD
15-Oct-15
Commercial Drive Community Potluck and Workshop
Rising Star
15-Oct-15
Food Choices and the Environment
Coal Harbour Community Center
16-Oct-15
Right to Food Celebration
Strathcona Community Centre
16-Oct-15
Fall Harvest Community Dance
Trout Lake Community Centre
16-Oct-15
YUMMY! A Right to Food Variety Show
Roundhouse Community Centre
17-Oct-15
Kits Village Vancouver Collaborative Garden Prepping the Garden for Winter Workshop Part 1 and Potluck
Billy Bishop
17-Oct-15
Introduction to Seed Saving
Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre
17-Oct-15
Native Edibles (Workshop & Walk)
False Creek Community Centre
17-Oct-15
Aberthau Garden Project: Village Vancouver Permaculture Demonstration Garden Prepping the Garden for Winter Workshop
Aberthau
17-Oct-15
The Grassroots to Resiliency Tours as part of Greenest City Walking Tours
City Hall, on the north lawn beside the community garden
18-Oct-15
Garden Fantasies
Hillcrest Community Centre
18-Oct-15
Garden Fantasies
Douglas
18-Oct-15
RIPE: 6th Annual Dinner Celebration of Vancouver Farmers Markets
Roundhouse Community Centre
18-Oct-15
West End Community Potluck, Seed & Plant Swap, & Sprouting Workshop
West End Community Centre
18-Oct-15
VV Permaculture Plots Prepping the Garden for Winter Workshop
Billy Bishop
18-Oct-15
Canning
Britannia Community Centre
19-Oct-15
Fermenting Sauerkraut
Britannia Community Centre
20-Oct-15
Soups and Stocks
Strathcona Community Centre
21-Oct-15
Neighbour Savour VI
Heritage hall
21-Oct-15
The Grassroots to Resiliency Tours as part of Greenest City Walking Tours
City Hall, on the north lawn beside the community garden
21-Oct-15
Sausage Making
Britannia
22-Oct-15
Concepts in Year Round Gardening
West End Community Centre
22-Oct-15
Introduction to Home Canning
Aberthau
22-Oct-15
Working Holiday Fermentations
Dunbar
22-Oct-15
GMO
Coal Harbour Community Center
23-Oct-15
Fairview/False Creek South Neighbourhood Potluck & Community Food Visioning
False Creek Community Centre
24-Oct-15
Seed Savers Gathering
VPL Mount Pleasant
25-Oct-15
Kits Village Vancouver Collaborative Garden Prepping the Garden for Winter Workshop Part 2 and Potluck
Billy Bishop
29-Oct-15
Slaw! Fermented Veggies
Strathcona Community Centre
