Approx. 15 minute introduction and 1 hour walking time, followed by a half hour open discussion.

Meeting Location: NE corner of East 8th Avenue and Kingsway, south side of Mount Pleasant Community Centre [map]

Mount Pleasant is an eclectic mix of painted spaces and places that continue to shake and shape, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Over the past century, this area’s small and large-scale construction has been a bellwether of social, cultural, economic, colonial and political forces that have cemented themselves onto these unceded lands. In recent years, it has also been awash with the Vancouver Mural Festival’s colourful contributions.

Paint is a critical component in construction and art creation, and its processes of drying, hardening and curing are integral to its longevity. This soundwalk continues historical, cultural and socioeconomic explorations from earlier soundwalks, by listening to paint dry, by listening to the pulses of this community, as well as probing places where we too may have hardened and cured. Between the layers of neighbourhood paint, we will tune in to growth that develops when discovering something new, when rediscovering essential and elemental experiences that may have been forgotten. Blended with the sounds of traffic, people, commerce and construction that whitewash our urban environment, we will listen for equally important echoes of this neighbourhood, the less obvious auditory renderings of absence as well as presence that form this poetics of space.