Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard

07/05/2024

Join us next Thursday, July 11, 1-3pm for our first session of Poetry in Parks at Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard. Featuring Vancouver's Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam! Everyone welcome!!

12/07/2023

🎉 Sign Up Today! 🎉 Join the Fun at Our Children's Holiday Party | Sunday, Dec. 10! | Easy Registration: Call 604-665-2274 or Visit Us in the Program Office | Spread the Word! 🌟

08/10/2023

03/30/2023

Join us for Poetry in Parks, with Evelyn Lau! 🎉🎉🎉
Thursday April 6 @ Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard 1:00pm-3:00pm
400 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1G6
Workshop Description:
During the two-hour workshop, I would give attendees a prompt ("Peel the Onion", created by me) to get them started on a rough draft of a poem on a certain subject (food, memory, culture). I would read a few of my own poems on the subject to hopefully give them some ideas. Then they would share the images/lines/fragments/thoughts they've come up with, and I would give them some feedback on how they might wish to develop their poem.
Everyone welcome! No previous experience required. All materials and supplies provided.
About Evelyn Lau
Evelyn Lau is a lifelong Vancouverite who has authored fourteen books, including nine volumes of poetry. Her memoir Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid (HarperCollins, 1989), published when she was eighteen, was made into a CBC movie starring Sandra Oh in her first major role. Evelyn’s prose books have been translated into a dozen languages; her poetry has received the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award, the Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, and a National Magazine Award, as well as nominations for a BC Book Prize and the Governor-General’s Award. Her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including the Best Canadian Poetry series. From 2011-2014, Evelyn served as Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver.

12/30/2022

🥳🥳🥳All DTES community members welcome to ring in 2023 with us at Carnegie! 🎉🎉🎉

Come and enjoy a safe, dry, and entertaining New Year's Eve Party at Carnegie Community Centre! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Tomorrow, Saturday Dec.31 2022 we are looking forward to:
- Bingo in the Carnegie Theatre 6:30pm-8:00pm *Special guest Bingo Callers will be in attendance*
- New Year's Eve Dance 8:30pm-12:15am *featuring a favourite SURPRISE DJ!* 💃💃💃🕺🕺🕺

Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you then!

12/30/2022

Poetry in the Park returns Thursday Jan.5 @ 1:00pm with Fiona Tinwei Lam!

Poetry in Parks – Oppenheimer Park Edition!
Join us Thursday Jan.5 in Oppenheimer Park to write and share poetry from 1:00pm-3:00pm. Everyone welcome and encouraged to attend, no previous experience necessary. All supplies provided.
Instructor: Fiona Tinwei Lam
Vancouver's 6th Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam [fionalam.net] has authored three poetry collections and a children’s book. Her poems have been featured on BC’s Poetry in Transit. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer, and co-edited two nonfiction anthologies. Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and other awards, her work appears in over 40 anthologies. She teaches creative writing at SFU Continuing Studies.

12/01/2022

Join us for an out trip in the Carnegie Van to VanDusen Botanical Garden Festival of Lights!

Title: Out Trip - VanDusen Garden Festival of Lights
Dates: Dec. 5, Dec.6, Dec.12, and Dec.13 2022
Time: 5:00pm-8:00pm
Location: 5251 Oak St, Vancouver, BC V6M 4H1

Join us for an out trip to the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Garden in the Carnegie van. Light refreshments provided. Membership required. Sign up at the Carnegie Info Desk.

11/29/2022

Hope to see you tomorrow at Poetry in Parks - Oppenheimer Park Edition with Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam. Everyone welcome to join us 1:00pm-3:00pm in the Fieldhouse. See you then!

Poetry in Parks – Oppenheimer Park Edition!
Join us Thursday Dec.1 in Oppenheimer Park to write and share poetry from 1:00pm-3:00pm. Everyone welcome and encouraged to attend, no previous experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Instructor: Fiona Tinwei Lam
Vancouver's 6th Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam [fionalam.net] has authored three poetry collections and a children’s book. Her poems have been featured on BC’s Poetry in Transit. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer, and co-edited two nonfiction anthologies. Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and other awards, her work appears in over 40 anthologies. She teaches creative writing at SFU Continuing Studies.

11/11/2022

Share an invitation with your community! Carnegie Community Centre needs your unused utensils. Donations accepted at the Centre and Nada! Thank you for reading 🍴🍴🍴❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Carnegie Community Centre needs your old, unused cutlery!

Carnegie Community Centre serves hundreds of low cost nutritious meals 365 days per year to the low income adults of the downtown eastside. We are constantly in need of cutlery for our meal service programs. Instead of buying new cutlery are using an environmentally responsible approach by having a cutlery drive to collect old unused utensils from Vancouverites’ storage lockers, basements, and cupboards.

If you have cutlery you no longer use, please consider donating it for community members who will truly benefit.

How can I participate?
Drop off cutlery for the Carnegie Kitchen via:
• Drop off at the Carnegie Info Desk from 9:00am-11:00pm seven days a week. We are located at 401 Main Street, Vancouver BC V6A 2T7
OR
• Get in touch to arrange a bike courier pick up at a mutually convenient time contact: [email protected] 604-665-2213.

About Carnegie Community Centre
Carnegie Community Centre — often referred to as the living room of the Downtown Eastside — provides social, educational, cultural, and recreational activities on-site and nearby at Oppenheimer Park. The programs serve low income adults with the goal of nurturing mind, body, and spirit in a safe and welcoming environment.

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11/01/2022

The Day of the Dead (el Día de los Mu***os) with us! Everyone welcome.

11/01/2022

Join us for the Heart of the City Festival edition of Poetry in Parks on Thursday Nov.3 1:00pm-3:00pm with Natasha Sanders-Kay!

Poetry in Parks – Oppenheimer Park Edition!
Join us Join us November 3 2022 1:00pm-3:00pm in Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard to write and share poetry with Natasha Sanders-Kay!
All supplies provided. Everyone welcome and encouraged to attend! No previous experience necessary.

NATASHA SANDERS-KAY lives and writes on the unceded and ancestral lands of the hən̓ qəmin̓ əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, including the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group and šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Stz’uminus, Qayqayt, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations (as far as she knows)—in what is colonially known as Burnaby, BC. Natasha is the author of the chapbook poem Postmodern Mutt, available for free from Light Factory Publications. Other work has appeared in Arc Poetry, Poetry Is Dead, subTerrain, PRISM international, untethered, Spacing and MONO.; new poems are forthcoming in EVENT, MONO., and The New Quarterly. Her poem “Activist Anonymous: I’ve Made Mistakes” won an honourable mention in the 2022 Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize. Natasha is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU and a member of the editorial collective at subTerrain magazine. Over the years she has worked on numerous initiatives around social justice and the arts. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

10/20/2022

Everyone welcome! Join us as we prepare to celebrate the Day of the Dead.

“One time a year, our departed come back to celebrate with us”

With the approaching celebration of the Day of the Dead, the Carnegie community promote their creativity and imagination with the elaboration of different decorations alluding to this tradition through craft workshops.

These great activities will be carried out continuously until November 2. As part of the teaching, participants from the Carnegie community, supported by instructors, will design and make decorations with paper materials, which they will personalize with colors and figures allusive to this beautiful celebration of the Day of the Dead.

Decorations will be used to decorate five altars located in Watari Counselling and Support Services, Oppenheimer Park - DTES Community's Back Yard, VANDU, Listening Post and Carnegie.

This activity is open to the general public on Thursdays October 13, 20 and 27 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Community Center.

No registration required! Everyone welcome. All equipment and supplies provided. This program is being offered in spoken English and spoken Spanish.