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Köbberling & Kaltwasser: The Games are Open. Update September 8, 2011

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In the summer of 2010, following the Olympic Vancouver Winter Games, the artist team of Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser created a sculpture from materials salvaged from the Athletes Village on nearby interim lands awaiting future development. Taking the form of a larger-than-life bulldozer, a machine usually associated with fast and drastic change, the wheat [...]

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Grow

A Lady Bug’s Lunch with Maria Keating Friday, August 19th, 2011 12:00 p.m At the Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab (adjacent to Habitat Island in the Olympic Village) Other Sight’s is pleased to present this experience as part of the Grow project. Bring your lunch to the Bulkhead Lab and explore the macro world of our [...]

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Grow

Mason Bees with Chloe Bennett Saturday August 13, 2011 12:00-3:00 At the Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab (adjacent to Habitat Island in the Olympic Village) Other Sights is pleased to present this workshop as part of the Grow project. Please join Chloe Bennett, a student of Landscape Architecture at UBC for a lively discussion about mason [...]

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Köbberling & Kaltwasser: The Games are Open. Update July 30, 2011

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Over the course of 11 months of rain and sun, the wheat board panels swelled and contracted – exterior parts fell, and wherever they landed, we covered them with soil and seeds. The grasses have taken well, especially in the shady areas. This first crop is intended to bring nourishment to the soil and encourage [...]

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Grow

Grow Workshop Sunday July 24, 2011 12:00-3:00 At the Bulkhead Urban Agriculture Lab (adjacent to Habitat Island in the Olympic Village) Other Sight’s is pleased to present this workshop as part of the Grow project. Please join Duncan Martin and his chickens from Duncan’s Backyard Henhouses for an afternoon at the Bulkhead Lab. Duncan will [...]

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Köbberling & Kaltwasser: The Games are Open. Update July 9, 2011

The Games Are Open

Finally some summer weather! We added more soil to all of the fallen wheat board parts and then cast a healthy layer of seeds: “Ecogreen Rapid Cover Revegetation” – this is a mix of seeds that includes creeping red fescue, tall fescue, red top, fall rye, timothy, kentucky bluegrass, annual ryegrass, chardgrass, dahurian wildrye grass, [...]

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Grow

Grow Walk Saturday, June 18th, 2011 From 1:30-3:00pm Beginning at the North entrance. Creekside Community Centre (1 Athletes Way) Other Sight’s is pleased to present the second of a series of walks through South East False Creek as part of the Grow project.  Join curator and scholar Rajdeep Singh Gill and artist, writer, and activist [...]

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Grow

Grow

Please visit the Grow BLOG for updates about events May 1 – November 30 2011 Lead Artist: Holly Schmidt   Other Sights for Artist’s Projects is pleased to present Grow, a public art project that acts as a public forum, teaching tool and creative laboratory for ecological and social sustainability practices in South East False Creek [...]

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