Please join us for a walking tour of the Joyce-Collingwood Neighbourhood in East Vancouver. The tour will be led by UBC professor Nora Angeles, planners Brendan Hurley and William Canero, and writer Patrick Chan. Register for FREE here.

The Joyce-Collingwood Station Area comprises overlapping communities of different degrees of visibility within Vancouver’s urban imaginary. Some communities develop mutually caring relations; while others are in conflicts. Conflicts often emerge from power imbalances, and communities striving to preserve against these imbalances. And given how communities are always evolving amidst and against increasing complex global flows of resources, labour, finances and political wills, new modes of perseverance and conflicts will no doubt emerge.

We hope this walking tour will engage participants in discussions of how Joyce-Collingwood’s many communities and hubs may relate to each other today and tomorrow.

If you register for the tour and are no longer able to attend, please cancel your registration to allow capacity for others.

About the Tour Leaders

Nora Angeles: Nora is Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Program at the University of British Columbia. She is currently the Graduate Program Advisor of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also faculty research associate at the UBC Centre for Human Settlements where she has been involved in a number of applied research and capacity-building research projects in Brazil, Vietnam and Southeast Asian countries. Her continuing research and interests are on community and international development studies and social policy, participatory planning and governance, participatory action research, and the politics of transnational feminist networks, women’s movements and agrarian issues, particularly in the Southeast Asian region.

William Canero: William currently serves as a Board of Director for the Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society and the South East Asian Heritage Society. During his time at UBC, William served as Councillor for the Graduate Student Society, the Planning Students Association, and the Planning Equity Coalition. William has had the privilege of facilitating consultations with the Pilipinx community, lead non-profits through strategic and long-term planning, and has recently worked with Burnaby’s Planning Department on ethnic business and farmer protections, arts and culture within Official Community Plans, and Indigenous co-management research. He has since moved on to start his own consulting firm, Malaya Planning and Engagement, which works with non-profits around planning issues within their local communities.

Brendan Hurley: Brendan is an urban design planner who has worked on international and local transit oriented urban infill projects, including the testing of development concepts as a consultant for the Joyce-Collingwood Station Precinct Plan. He currently acts as a Community Planner for the City of Coquitlam. Brendan was born and raised as a renter in Vancouver’s east side, including in socialized housing in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood.

Patrick Chan: Pat is currently investigating how activism based on transpacific transmedia connections can realign the existing power structures that shape transpacific-based real estate.

Register for FREE here.