New Westminster will take part in the Jane’s Walk tradition for the first time, with a walking conversation to meet and interact with others, including the people who hope to represent you in Victoria.
We are happy to announce 5 Candidates for MLA have agreed to take part in this unique event.
Tenth to the Fraser, NEXT NewWest, and the NWEP have collaborated to bring voters and candidates together for this first ALL CANDIDATES JANE’S WALK, starting at Sapperton Park at 5:30pm on Sat, May 4.
Along the way, candidates have a spot where they can stand on the soapbox and address the crowd for 3–4 minutes. The rest of the walk, we encourage citizens to take their questions, concerns, or ideas directly to them on a one-on-one or small group basis, to have a true walking conversation.
- 5:30 pm: Start at Sapperton Park
- 5:35: Remarks Judy Darcy, BC NDP Candidate (Sapperton Park);
- 6:00: Remarks Hector Bremner, BC Liberals Candidate (stairs of former BC Pen);
- 6:15: Remarks James Crosty, Independent Candidate (Victoria Hill);
- 6:35: Remarks Terry Teather, BC Green Party Candidate (Albert Crescent);
- 7:00: Remark Paul Forseth, BC Conservative Candidate (Hyack Square);
- 7:05: Wrap up & migrate to Paddlewheeler.
Jane’s Walks are becoming a global event, held in hundreds of cities the first weekend in May. Around the world, neighbourhood groups organize free community walks to honour the memory of Jane Jacobs.
A ground-breaking urban activist, and possibly the world’s first “urbanist”, Jane first rose to prominence in the 1950s for leading a fight to Protect Washington Square Park and her beloved Greenwich Village neighbourhood. She wrote the influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, was influential in the modernization of the urban form of Toronto, was an Officer of the Order of Canada, and is sometimes referred to as “the mother of Vancouverism” for the influence her writings and research had on the development of post-freeway Vancouver.
Jane’s Walks are meant to honour Jane, but also to honour cities, urban areas, as diverse, exciting, and interesting places for people to live, work, and play. Drawing urban neighbours together to take a walk through their own city, not to get from A to B, but to have a “walking conversation”, meet neighbours, learn something new about their own backyard, and ultimately increase citizens’ connection to their urban home.
At 7:00 pm, we will be wrapping up the walk at the River Market, where we will have some space reserved at the Paddlewheeler Pub, to continue socializing and networking in the NEXTNewWest Tradition!
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