MICHAEL BARNHOLDEN
June 24, July 22
"If you don't riot, you can't complain"

This walk will include sites of the anti-Asiatic Riot of 1907 from Hastings and
Westminster (now Main) through Chinatown's Market, Shanghai and Canton
Alleys, then through Nihon Bachi or "Little Yokohama" along Powell Street; the Free Speech riots of 1912 when police attacked Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) in the Powell Street grounds; and Maple Tree Square, site of the infamous 1971 Police Riot also known as the Gastown Riot.

Meet at Artspeak at 2pm.

Vancouver writer Michael Barnholden is the author of Gabriel Dumont Speaks (Talon Books 1993), On The Ropes (Coach House Books 1997) and Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Riots in Vancouver (Anvil Press 2005). He is currently the managing editor of West Coast Line.

ANNABEL VAUGHAN
June 17, July 29
"Wandering the Leqleqi Portage: Transecting Vancouver's Narrative"

Walking from Crab Park on Burrard Inlet to the eastern edge of False Creek this walk will trace one thread of Vancouver's story along Carrall Sreet.

Meet at the band stand in Crab Park at 2pm.

Annabel Vaughan is a graduate architect working in Vancouver. She is a sessional Professor in the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia and a member of Space Agency, a local group of artists, architects and writers making space for the discussion of architecture in the public realm.