12 ~ Sunday, February 23, 1997 — North Shore News

Arts a priority, says report

From pag. 1

“The unexpected anufe to this is that the
shipyard collapsed,” Inglis said.

Tt was vet another blow to what had once
been a thriving waterfront community.

Inglis, and others who share his vision of
Lower Lonsdale as “a town centre and a destina-
tion,” hope the Lower Lonsdale Planning Study
and the Versatile Lands Use Study currently
under way will allow for the cultural and hisroric
sites that define and attract people to an area.

Inglis’ hope is for a North Vancouver
Museum at Lonsdale Landing. ft would be
housed in the shipvard’s red-roofed Copper-
smith’s shop. Inglis envisions the museum as a
tribute to the waterfront’s history.

The building is 196 feet (60 m) long and 45
feet (14 m) wide. Plans for the museum include
an exnibit about Burrard Dry Dock, dominated
by the full-size stern section of a Victory Ship;
and exhibits on Moodyville, the Ferry Wharf and
Burrard Inlet today.

West of the proposed museum site, a civic
plaza has already been designed. Ji will be the site
for the Pacific Great Eastern railway station,
presently resting behind the bleachers at Mahon
Park, and a restored streetear.

A waterfront walkway would wind from the
plaza, around the museum and bevond.

Other arts and cultural groups have also put

Youth need a place in city plans

forward request: for the area.

In a report tables by the North Shore Arts
Commission (NSAC), priorities included a per-
forming arts centre, a photographic and media
arts centre, a community art gallery and support
space, a gallery for the Artists for Trust, and
an arts market — a venue wi artists could
work, display and sell their wares,

According to the report, it’s important co the
concept that facilities inhabit an “Arts and
Culture Village,” in which clusters of facilities
and activity create a “well-rounded and bustling
arts precinct.”

“We know there's not a fot of money kickit u
around for this kind of stuff anywhere,”
Mary Anne Anderson, cultural cevelopr:
assistant at the NSAC. “Our hope is that
work with developers, and usc funding trom the

provincial goveraments.”
on also tatked about ea, ital campaigns
lon raise funds.

The + reeatice help from the
city in ing widing the land. Those in
the arts community believe +: would be money

oung community,” said Lori Phillips,

Anderson’s jab-sharing p. “Lonsdale could

be a street anywhere. We dow’t really have an iden-

tty yet. Cultural facilities are places where people
explore that, and really think about it.”

— deana@nsnews.com

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From page 3

community organizations and
services.”

Three items made up the
second priority (the team gave
them equal weight):

& affordable and adaptable
rental hcusing;

Man arts gallery and museum;
Band a multi-purpose activity
centre,

Of the arts community’s
extensive wish-list, which

would make the area a “desti-
nation” for locals and tourists,
the gallery and museum were
the only items that made it to
the report as priorities.

“The arts groups want
everything,” Currie said. “it's
ridiculous.”

He pointed out that many
of the residents in the area are
under-privileged.

“How many of the families,
seniors, and people with physi-
cal disabilides can afford to go

where they meet to look at
each other.”

Currie said he thinks the real
need is to create places and pro-
grams for people to go at night,
after the stores and businesses
close. Especially for youth.

“Let’s face ir — the vouth
today are not going home to bed
at 10 o'clock ar night,” he said.

The team listed assistance to
the North Shore Neighbour-
hood House for youth program-
ming as an immediate issue.

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