ArtsConnect’s ArtsCalendar is a work in progress. Presently, we are working with a small group of arts organizations from across the Tri-Cities to develop the ArtsCalendar before we open up submissions from all arts organizations and we are not accepting direct submissions at this time. If your organization is interested in joining the ArtsCalendar in the future, please email your name, address, and a brief description of your organization to: [email protected]
This resource has been made possible through the financial support of ArtsConnect’s members. If you would like to support the further development, please consider becoming a member here: Membership
ArtsConnect Jane’s Walk: Port Moody
On Saturday 2 May 2026, join your neighbours for a series of Jane’s Walks taking place across the Tri-Cities. Informative and engaging walking conversations about the people and places and spaces and stories that make up our communities will take place through downtown Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam City Centre, and along Port Moodyโs shoreline.
Just what is it that makes a city the city that it is? What goes into what goes on in the streets and parks and paths that wind through the places that we live? What works? What doesnโt? What would you change? Why would you change it? What is it about the places we live and the spaces that we share that calls community together?
Janeโs Walk Port Coquitlam
Date: Saturday 2 May 2026
Time: 10:30am โ 11:30am
Starting location: Gateway of Giants, 2150 Wilson Avenue, Port Coquitlam
Walk Leader: Marnie Maule has been instructing in various mediums and age groups in Port Coquitlam for the last fourteen years and is pleased to find herself instructing on behalf of the City of Port Coquitlam in the Arts and Culture Department. Following a lifelong interest in learning art techniques and art history, she is enjoying making connections and sharing her love of clay, watercolour, collage and printmaking. Marnie is happy imparting her experience and passion with her community through her work and volunteering
on behalf of Girl Guides.
Janeโs Walk Coquitlam
Date: Saturday 2 May 2026
Time: 1:00pm โ 2:00pm
Starting location: In front of the Town Centre Park Community Centre at 1207 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam
Walk Leader: This will be a collectively led walk facilitated by ArtsConnect and designed for people to share stories about the past, thoughts about the present and ideas for the future of downtown Coquitlam. We will share some history and share some visions for how we can work together to shape a dynamic and vibrant city with the arts and artists at the centre. This walk ties into the 23 May 2026 Artist-Run Suburbs program to be held at the Evergreen Cultural Centre and the 20 June 2026 talk by Kamala Jasmine Todd presented in partnership with the Coquitlam Public Library.
Janeโs Walk Port Moody
Date: Saturday 2 May 2026
Time: 3:30pm โ 4:30pm
Starting location: Rocky Point Park at the Rocky Point Pier, Port Moody.
Walk Leader: Les George is a member of the sษlilwษtaษฌ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation, where he lives on the north shore of Burrard Inlet. He is the grandson of the late sษlilwษtaษฌ Chief Dan George and is connected through family to the Sแธตwxฬฑwรบ7mesh (Squamish) and xสทmษฮธkสทษyฬษm (Musqueam) nations. Les attended the Native Education College in Vancouver. In 2017 he was invited to return, giving a performance and prayer at the opening of their cultural gathering space. For 23 years, Les George was a First Nations Support Worker with the North Vancouver School District, working closely with at-risk youth and those with special needs. He shared stories, drumming, songs, and held restorative justice circles with students. Les also works for Takaya Tours, the premier First Nation owned eco-tourism venture in the Lower Mainland. As a guide, he keeps groups safe as they paddle Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm in replica ocean-going canoes or sea kayaks, all while sharing sษlilwษtaษฌ songs, legends, and information about village sites.
These walks will be conversational and you are free to ask questions and to share your own stories, observations and ideas but you are as free to listen and take in what others share. Please also feel free to participate in the walk to your own interest or abilities. Every effort has been made to ensure that these walks are accessible however, unforeseen things may arise on the day that reduce accessibility.
Each year Janeโs Walks take place in over 500 cities throughout the world. Starting in 2025, ArtsConnect has signed on to organize Janeโs Walks in neighbourhoods across the Tri-Cities. These walking conversations about how we make the cities in which we live and work and play are inspired by Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) a writer, urbanist and activist who championed a community-based approach to city-building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 book, โThe Death and Life of Great American Cities,โ introduced important ideas about how cities function, evolve, and even how they fail. Jacobs lived in Greenwich Village until 1968 when she moved to Toronto. In both cities, she helped derail the car-centred approach to urban planning and invigorated neighbourhood and community activism. Her activism and many writings continue to engage many of todayโs architects, planners, policymakers, activists, citizens, and other city builders.
Jane’s Walks take place on the ancestral and unceded territories of the kสทikสทษฦฬษm, sษlilwษtaษฌ, qฬicฬษyฬ, xสทmษฮธkสทษyฬษm, qiqรฉyt, Sแธตwxฬฑwรบ7mesh, and Sto’:lo.
ArtsConnect gratefully acknowledges the support of the PoCo Foundation and the City of Port Coquitlam Community Cultural Development (CCD) Investment Program, the Village of Anmore and the Spirit of Coquitlam Grant program.
