Join us at Heritage Hall for a family-friendly evening of storytelling, music, community booths, and light refreshments to celebrate Heritage Week.

Places that Matter launched with a plaque project in 2011 to recognize community-nominated sites that highlight some of the lesser-known people, places and events that have shaped Vancouver. A decade later, with 88 plaques installed, the online Community History Resource continues to grow with community contributions of personal stories and photographs for 125 sites.

This event is family-friendly and all are welcome to attend. By donation.

Event Schedule

6:30pm-8:30pm

Meet & Greet with Community Organizations (listed alphabetically, and subject to change)

Arts Club Theatre Society, Association of Neighbourhood Houses, BC Sports Hall of Fame, China Creek Skatepark, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Chinese Canadian Museum, Daughters in the City (Mennonite Maids), the Francophone Village, Friends of the Archives, Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Grandview Heritage Group, Joe Fortes – Hastings Mill Museum, Heather Heritage Society, Heritage Vancouver Society, Historic Joy Kogawa House, Hogan’s Alley Society, Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society, King George High School Archives, McSpadden Park Society, Militant Mothers of Raymur, Pacific Canada Heritage Centre- Museum of Migration, Roedde House Museum, Vancouver Historical Society, VanDusen Botanical Garden Association (VanDusen Garden and Bloedel Conservatory)

Meet & Greet with VHF Yosef Wosk Publication Grant recipients: Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Vancouver Fruit Tree Project and Katarina Thorsen’s “JOSEPH- the Prologue”, JQT Vancouver – The BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project” and Christine Hagemoen- Historic Walking Tours of Mount Pleasant.

7pm-7:30pm

7pm-7:30pm

Territorial Acknowledgement and Welcome (TBC)

City Councillor, Pete Fry

Heritage Week Proclamation with VHF Board Director and Executive Director

Storytellers from the Militant Mothers of Raymur and Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society, Fiona Lam, Vancouver Poet Laureate, Leona Lam, Vancouver Heritage Fairs Alumni, and Aaron Chapman

8pm-8:30pm

The Annie Molesworth Quintet looks forward to sharing classic tunes and modern arrangements with all of you! Annie Molesworth is a classical and jazz vocalist from the Lower Mainland and her band consists of Ru Ha on tenor sax, Justine Darlington on guitar, Bella Federigo on bass, and Kate Johnson on drums, all graduates of the Capilano University Jazz Studies.

Please contact jessica@vancouverheritagefoundation.org for more information and sponsorship opportunities.

Thank you to our Sponsors and In-Kind Donations

Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Association

All India Sweets and Restaurant

Prado Café, courtesy of Tara Sidhoo Fraser

All donations are tax deductible. An official tax receipt is issued for donations of $20 or more. Our Registered Charity number is 891765968.