Connecting People Through the Arts in Anmore, Belcarra, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody
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 doesn’t? 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?
On Saturday 3 May 2025, 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 in Coquitlam’s Maillardville, Port Moody’s downtown, and along the Coquitlam River and downtown Port Coquitlam.
Jane’s Walk Coquitlam
Date: Saturday 3 May 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Starting location: SW Corner of Brunette and King Edward, Coquitlam
Walk Leader: Curator, historian and designer Markus Fahrner.
Jane’s Walk Port Moody
Date: Saturday 3 May 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Starting location: Kyle Centre Parking Lot, 125 Kyle Street, Port Moody
Walk Leader: Urban planner, Bita Jamalpour
Jane’s Walk Port Coquitlam
Date: Saturday 3 May 2025
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Starting location: NW Corner Lions Park Parking Lot, Port Coquitlam
Walk Leader: Community leader and former Chief of the Kwikwetlem First
Nation Ed Hall
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 Jane’s Walks take place in over 500 cities throughout the world. Starting in 2025, ArtsConnect has signed on to organize Jane’s 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, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” 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 today’s architects, planners, policymakers, activists, citizens, and other city builders.
Jane’s Walks take place on the ancestral and unceded territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm which lies within the shared territories of the səlilwətaɬ, q̓ic̓əy̓, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, qiqéyt, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sto’:lo.
ArtsConnect gratefully acknowledges the support of the PoCo Foundation and the City of Port Coquitlam Community Cultural Development (CCD) Investment Program and the Village of Anmore.
