If you're new to Vancouver, though, you might find yourself in the middle of the winter struggling to recover a certain type of memory. Through the foggy gray mist and rain, can you remember ... sunlight? Focus on the green, look past the gray. For those cool gray rainy days of winter, here are a few reminders of what the sun can do for Raincity. We start out with views of the downtown core from the floatplanes that take off from Coal Harbour. Then we go to the Downtown Eastside to see the bright sun shining on a low-income community whose serious problems are now compounded by an aggressive wave of speculative investment and displacement. Then we explore scenes from a march for housing rights, the downtown financial district, Olympic Village, convention center, and new luxury residential development on the North Shore of False Creek. Next we visit the West End and English Bay, before heading out to UBC and Kits Beach.
Focus on the green, look past the gray. And in the middle of winter, get ready for those moments when the skies unexpectedly clear for just a few hours. This is your chance: drop everything, and run out to see the sun-drenched landscapes of your city in a new light." />
Raincity Therapy
Charles Demers holds a mirror to Vancouver to reflect the distinctive sense of place: "...as author George Bowering said, we in Vancouver and BC don't live in history, 'we live instead in geography.' (Bowering also, in a novel about George Vancouver, gave an eighteenth-century Indian chief the line, 'In the winter, it rains all the time, but we always say at least you don't have to shovel it,' which, if it isn't the best thing ever written about Vancouver, it's close.) Long memories don't go well with either consumerist or colonial-settler societies, and Vancouver's both, often at the same time." Charles Demers (2009). Vancouver Special. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, p. 20.
If you're new to Vancouver, though, you might find yourself in the middle of the winter struggling to recover a certain type of memory. Through the foggy gray mist and rain, can you remember ... sunlight? Focus on the green, look past the gray. For those cool gray rainy days of winter, here are a few reminders of what the sun can do for Raincity. We start out with views of the downtown core from the floatplanes that take off from Coal Harbour. Then we go to the Downtown Eastside to see the bright sun shining on a low-income community whose serious problems are now compounded by an aggressive wave of speculative investment and displacement. Then we explore scenes from a march for housing rights, the downtown financial district, Olympic Village, convention center, and new luxury residential development on the North Shore of False Creek. Next we visit the West End and English Bay, before heading out to UBC and Kits Beach.
Focus on the green, look past the gray. And in the middle of winter, get ready for those moments when the skies unexpectedly clear for just a few hours. This is your chance: drop everything, and run out to see the sun-drenched landscapes of your city in a new light.