Vancouver Public Art Walk.

It was time to once again, explore our own city and discover some of the newer, as well as to rediscover some of the older, public art installations scattered all over or beautiful city of Vancouver. Armed with only a brochure of new installations and a fold out map inside, Jen and I took the bus into town and began with Public Service/Private Steps, 2002, a collection of five cubes just outside a building gliding up and down a steel structure in direct correlation to the movement of the elevators inside the building.

Our tour continued towards the art deco Marine Building, 1930, built during the difficult times of the great depression, then to Working Landscape, 1998, a collection of three circular platforms with a tree and a bench on top moving ever so slightly, the same area where Georgia Lass got hit by a flying toilet seat in the short lived television series called Dead Like Me. Right across from here was a new chocolatier called Mink to where we stopped to warm our chilly hands up with a cup of hot chocolate before moving along to Canada Place.

Through Gastown to False Creek and Yaletown, we took our city in with wide eyes. We stopped by a cafe called Bojangles right off the False Creek marina where I had a bowl of Boston clam chowder and gave my tired legs a rest.

We had only covered slightly less than half of the city on foot and missed out on several other installations, buildings, and monuments in the brochure, but when our weary legs regain its strength, we'll set off on foot once again at the crack of dawn and see the rest of this world-class city we call home.

Click here to download your copy of the Downtown Shoreline Public Art Walk brochure + map in PDF.

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