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Foreword by Beryl Wilson and Peter Braune
The fundraising drive demonstrated what this community is all about. Even off the Island, people want to be a part of this community. For example, Tremblay Motors — he’s located at the foot of Granville Island and he fixes many people’s cars down here. This project is the community saying: “This is who we are, this is what we are and we want this community to continue to thrive far into the future.” That’s why these projects are here.
Says Peter, “The timing of the these three projects, even the local paper False Creek This Week being revived after all these years -— all of these things are demonstrations that the spirit of the Granville Island community is now being seen and heard. This is our voice and all of these things are vehicles to show who we are as a community. So that’s the serendipity and the synchronicity, that all these things happened at the same time.”
The future of this visionary urban renewal template lies before us. The secret is revealed in the Granville Island Works newspaper, Granville Island book and Artists and Artisans of Granville Island dvd, where the lines between business and community, friendship and neighbourliness are often blurred. Come join the fun, embrace this vibrant community and come away touched and enriched by a small part of it. This Island is truly a jewel in the heart of Vancouver.
As Kevin Head from Kroma Acrylics says of the Granville Island Works project, “It is perfect timing... it’s helping Granville Island keep its identity, optimism, and its people focus...This has been exceedingly valuable”.
“I have been very proud to be a part of this project. We have all found working with the people of Granville Island to be very inspiring,” says Jocelyn Hallett of ZenHouse Media.
It is perfect timing... it’s helping Granville Island keep its identity, optimism, and its people focus...This has been exceedingly valuable.
–Kevin Head from Kroma Acrylics
From festivals to the myriad of theatre production companies, entrancing shops, studios and more, there is always something happening on the Island to entertain the thousands of visitors both young and old that come to our shores every year. But at the core of Granville Island’s pulsing energy are the people of Granville Island, its community, ensuring every day that Granville Island “Works”.
- ZenHouse Media’s creative process in the development of the Granville Island Works newspaper.
- Classic letterpress wood ampersands.
- The first print run, 50,000 copies.
- Horizon Publications ordered huge rolls of 70% recycled paper for this project.
