W2TV: Carnegie "Re-Opening" and Vancouver 125 Celebration

W2TV: Carnegie "Re-Opening" and Vancouver 125 Celebration

Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver BC Canada - On October 14, the Carnegie Community Centre celebrated it's "re-opening" and Vancouver 125. Through almost a year of renovations, the Carnegie continued to serve a large and diverse clientele.

Carnegie Community Centre Director's Message

The beautiful sandstone building that we all lovingly refer to as 'Carnegie' was among the first structures that signalled the coming of age of Vancouver as a city of some consequence and substance. So it's particularly appropriate that we are celebrating both the City of Vancouver's 125th birthday and marking the completion of the building's most recent renovation at the same time. The Carnegie Centre is so much more than just a place to read a book or learn a skill or play pool or cards or floor hockey and get a great meal. It's all of those things but in a lot of ways it still represents the pride of place that makes this community special. I want to thank the City of Vancouver for its continued commitment to this neighbourhood as a dignified place of belonging. I particularly want to thank the friends and neighbours who use the Carnegie Community Centre every day. Your patience and good humour as we lived in the midst of this renovation and continued to provide the service that you faithfully support has shown the kind of fortitude that our forebears would have appreciated. I look forward to sharing the upcoming season of celebration in our renewed home with all of you.

Ethel Whitty, Director, Carnegie Community Centre


The video:

Thank you Carnegie volunteers and staff including Learning Centre and Library, Carnegie Community Centre Association, Carnegie Newsletter, Carnegie Village Choir, Carnegie Street Band, Buffalo Spirit Drum with Sam George, Kat Zucomulwat (Kat Norris), Ethel Whitty, Beth Davies, Randy Tait, Sharon Kravitz, PaulR Taylor, Gena Thompson, Richard Tetrault, Ron Horsefall, Diane Wood, Ron J. Ward, Teresa Vandertuin and everyone who contributed as performer, presenter and/or participants.

Close sequence directed/animated by Kasey Lum and Jorge Feres with props to Todd Smith Design.

Audio/visual recorded at W2 Media Cafe with Zoom Q3 and edited by Sid Tan with AVS Editor on HP Pavilion dv6622 laptop also used to upload.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Richard Tetrault
• Ron Horsefall
• Diane Wood
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• Teresa Vandertuin
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