Over the last month I have been tending a whole caboodle of seed starts for the spring fling. What I've learned so far is how to make newspaper pots for seedlings, that I should have started many of the seedlings a lot sooner and I may invest in some grow lamps for the fall.

The False Creek Watershed Society presents the 5th annual:
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> SALMON CELEBRATION
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> "Remembering Our History, Celebrating the Living"
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> The 5th annual "Salmon Celebration" will take place on BC Rivers Day,
> Sept 28th 2008 in Vanier Park, near the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
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> 12PM - 430 PM, Parade begins at 1:00
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Educating children, families and educators in the area of arts and environmental change based on recycling, reusing, sustainable living practices. Creating an outreach traveling to outlying communities to inspire more change through workshops, facilitation of community events, transformation of resources from "Junk to Jewels" (ie. beach debris to Mosaic Community Masterpieces.

About six months ago I started having regular meetings with local community organizer Andrea Curtis (Public Dreams, Car Free Commercial Drive, VeloFusion, etc.) about creating an affordable shared space for artists in our immediate community to meet, rehearse and develop new work.

The Vancouver Life Drawing Society, an unassuming non-profit arts organization, is moving soon to new premises – possibly to a storefront, for the first time in our 25 year history  We look forward to a higher public profile and an expanded Gallery program.

This Society is a gem, offering life drawing and painting sessions seven days per week as it has for 364 days of every year since the early 1980’s.  We are lucky to have this in Vancouver –  some much bigger cities don’t have such a reliable structure to help visual artists practice a most fundamental discipline, figure drawing and painting.  (Full disclosure – I am on the Board, and obviously am a big fan of the organization).