September 2008 October 2008
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
Week 36 1 2 3 4 5 6
Week 37 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Week 38 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Week 39 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Week 40 28 29 30
Friday, 05. September 2008
Latest News and Events PDF Print E-mail

 

 

 Citywide takes an active role in many community events.

This summer we were represented at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival with a tent and we were educating the music lovers with info about our services and how to keep in touch with us through our email update service. We also had a table at the Powell Street Festival. We talk to prospective partners and hopefully we impress upon them the necessity of our role in the development of an honest housing strategy for the poorest people in our neck of the woods, a place where it is becoming increasingly dangerous to be homeless, as the police are now making it their business to clean up the streets and parks and they regularly beat up and/or displace severely downtrodden people as a means of scaring them away from the neighborhood. It’s a total lack of justice.
- hal

 

COMMENTS FROM THE DIFFERENT FESTIVALS

 

Pride Parade

“A great day! CHC, RTR, and CCAP showed off the Poverty Olympics torch! There were enthusiastic cheers and participation from the half million spectators. At Sunset beach, our table raised just pennies shy of $250 through T-shirt and drink sales. Many came to play our trivia quiz and to talk about the homelessness crisis. Over fifty people signed on to the CHC mailing list and many more signed our Emerson petition and RTR postcards.”

Anna Truong – South Van

Powell Street Festival

"At the Powell Street Festival, Aug 2nd and 3rd in Oppenheimer Park, the CAPP/CHC table attracted a lot of attention with its blue HOMES for ALL banner. Dozens of people took the time to submit themselves to Miss Wood's Housing Quiz, and dozens more accepted leaflets and bought t-shirts."

Rider Cooey – False Creek

Under The Volcano

"Despite the cloudy skies, rain and cooler temperatures people were in the festival spirit! Even when the skies opened up we had many people come by and take our Housing Quiz and sign up to the information list. We also had lots of interaction with a very supportive community and Diane's energy was not at all dampened by the clouds as she worked the crowd with leaflets."

Elizabeth Blackwood - Kitsilano
 
robert.jpg
By MIP