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 5&6, 2026
About the event
Reflection & Co-Curation Gathering
Pull up a chair.
Following the Past. Present. Future. workshop, the plaza is being transformed into a cozy outdoor living room — a space to gather, reflect, and look at what was created together.
Guests are invited to join a relaxed, drop-in afternoon where stories, drawings, collages, and symbols contributed by the community will be shared — and where the next steps will be gently shaped.
Those who didn’t attend the first workshop are still warmly welcomed. This is a meaningful opportunity to join in, contribute a voice, and help make sense of what others have shared.
Guests are welcome to stay for a few minutes or stay awhile.
What You’ll Find
An open-air “living room” will be created with frames and soft gathering spaces to display artwork and reflections from Workshop One.
Visitors 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
There is no requirement to have attended the first workshop.
There is no requirement to be an artist.
Participants are encouraged to simply come as they are.
Live Meaning-Making
Throughout the day, facilitators will be present to chat and gently gather themes and emerging connections.
Serena will support real-time synthesis, helping translate community reflections into patterns that will guide the mural’s composition and storytelling. Attendees will be able to see ideas forming as they happen.
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 will follow, where the mural design will be painted together.
For now, guests are invited to sit, reflect, and help make sense of what has been created.
Want to Stay Involved?
After this gathering, the mural team will begin 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 will be shared and reflections will be invited before finalization.
Those who participated in either workshop, or simply care about how the mural takes shape, are welcome to join.
The team believes 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/
