HelloChowder invites the community into an open-air neighbourhood living room to view community artwork, reflect together, and help shape what goes on the Grandview-Woodland Mural.
Time & Location
- Woodland BikeBridge ParkVancouver, BC
- June 13, 2026
About the event
An open-air neighbourhood living room, view community artwork, reflect together, and help shape what goes on the Grandview-Woodland Mural.
Reflection & Co-Curation Gathering
Pull up a chair.
After the Past. Present. Future. workshop, HelloChowder turns the plaza into a cozy outdoor living room — a space to gather, reflect, and look at what was created together.
The community is invited to join a relaxed, drop-in afternoon where the stories, drawings, collages, and symbols contributed by the community are shared — and the group gently shapes what comes next.
No worries if you didn’t make it to the first workshop. This is a beautiful moment to jump in, contribute your voice, and help make sense of what others have shared.
Stay for a few minutes or stay awhile.
What You’ll Find
HelloChowder creates an open-air “living room” with frames and soft gathering spaces to display artwork and reflections from Workshop One.
Participants are invited to wander, pause, and notice:
What feels familiar?
What feels powerful?
What feels missing?
What belongs together?
This is a chance to see the neighbourhood through each other’s eyes.
Add Your Voice
At the reflection table, participants can:
Write or draw a response
Add new insights
Submit a postcard from the first workshop
Make connections between pieces
No attendance at the first workshop is needed.
No one needs to be an artist.
Just come as you are.
Live Meaning-Making
Throughout the day, facilitators are present to chat and gently gather themes and emerging connections.
Serena supports real-time synthesis, helping translate community reflections into patterns that guide the mural’s composition and storytelling. Ideas are visible as they form.
Why This Moment Matters
This mural is not just about images, it’s about belonging.
This gathering helps ensure the final design reflects lived experience, shared memory, and collective imagination.
A third workshop follows, where the mural design is painted together.
For now, participants are invited to sit, reflect, and help make sense of what has been created.
Want to Stay Involved?
After this gathering, the HelloChowder mural team begins translating community themes and artwork into a draft composition.
Anyone who would like to stay connected can sign up for a virtual feedback session (Zoom), where the draft mural design is shared and reflections are invited before it is finalized.
If participants took part in either workshop, or simply care about how the mural takes shape, they are welcome to join.
It is believed that public art should be shaped with the people it represents.
About the Team
This project was initiated by artists Allison , 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, 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.
Learn more about the project:
👉 https://www.communitymarks.ca/
