Mapping East Van Mapping East Van

All creating, including of East Van as a location, is upon the sovereign Lands, Waters, and Air stewarded by the Stó:lō, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations


Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny film:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4LvRXTtrq4


mapping east van project:
mappingeastvan.wixsite.com/home


Accessibility:
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[cover ID: digitally hand-written yellow orchre text says “mapping east van W/ david ng” in all caps. This title overlaps a cloudy and bright day of the 林西河總堂 (Lim Sai Kor How Mok) Benevolent Association building in Chinatown. Like most buildings in the un-gentrified parts of East Van it is a short older building flanked by bland-colored skyscrapers and dripped with wear. Urban fixtures are also seen near the building: A red classic light pole, some bushes, a young-ish skinny tree, a crosswalk light plastered with posters. End of ID]


Thank you David Ng for sharing this space!


Hot Pot Talks hosted by VALU Co-op and Love Intersections:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/hot-pot-talks-…ets-136611497667


Find more from them on instagram
@valucoop
@loveintersections


Thank you to A.J. for the music, you can buy the whole album produced by Incidental Press here;
incidentalpress.bandcamp.com/album/100-block-rock


Finally, heres the series put out by ECUAD that this is partially in response to with my position as a Programming Research Assistant for the series:
blogs.eciad.ca/creativeknowledgesharing/


Sources:
Squamish Atlas
squamishatlas.com
access: dynamic map with clickable points that expand into text and audio files for pronunciation


Audio effect sources:
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All creating, including of East Van as a location, is upon the sovereign Lands, Waters, and Air stewarded by the Stó:lō, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations



Sign this petition for completing CRAB Park!



mapping east van project



Accessibility:

Timestamped transcript TBA!



[cover ID: digitally hand-written light yellow text says "MAPPING EAST VAN" above "W/ Rebecca Wang" in all caps. The text overlays a hand-drawn arial-view map of Oppenheimer Park on white paper, the upper centre shows the tangle of paths that then stretch out toward the edges of the park. Most paths end at the four streets surrounding the park. The drawing itself has been traced over several times by different colored crayons and pens, giving the lines texture and movement. End of ID]



Thank you to Rebecca Wang for sharing her thoughts here! This is her podcast series



And her website



Thank you to L'Chronic for the music this episode, find more tracks from the album 100 Block Rock here



Finally, here's the series put out by ECUAD that this is partially in response to with my position as a Programming Research Assistant for the series



Sources:

Ḵexmin field station

access: images with description and text



Vines Art Festival list-style map of Indigenous place (Land Acknowledgement) for where the festival took place in 2018

access: written place names, translations, historical photographs



Manifesto for Ethical Research in the DTES

access: all text with hyperlinks, screenreader accessible



Audio effect sources:

https://soundideas-sourceaudio-com.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/#!albums

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

All creating, including of East Van as a location, is upon the sovereign Lands, Waters, and Air stewarded by the Stó:lō, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. This map specifically focusses on the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh village site Lek'Leki, colonially settled as Gastown.

Mapping East Van

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[cover ID: digitally hand-written light blue text says "MAPPING EAST VAN" on the top above "W/ Sophia Boutsakis" below in all caps. The text overlays a photograph of Sophia’s mural that is cropped to the white board it was painted on and a thin black outline of the window frame around. The centre is the evil eye in traditional colors, from outward to inward is ultramarine blue, white, thinner sky blue ring and a black pupil at the centre. End of ID]

This is a map of East Van, and in no way is it objective. No map is. Maps are collections for stories of violence. So too, can maps hold tales of resistance, those who know that a story told can never die.

I'm Mickey Morgan, I use they/them pronouns, I'm a cartographer and translator and listener and storyteller. This map we’re making is composed in a matrix of stories shared using various media and is part of a few inter-connected projects like a zine, an open source map, and a podcast, but primarily these are ways to understand mapping as storytelling (and vice versa). This matrixed map is with the ultimate goal to encourage the idea of neighbourly-ness that entails not only basic kindness and respect but also mutual accountability, strengthened relations, and points for resistance and solidarity to flourish.

Thanks so much Sophia for sharing some stories and chatting with me! Her instagram is @SophiaBoutsakis

Thank youu Sylvia Wrath for the music!! Check out their album

The totality of the writing by T'uy't'tanat

Other cited sources:

vanmuralfest.ca/faq

scoutmagazine.ca

You can also check out the Open Source East Van map that goes with this project, please feel free to add stories of East Van you know, but do not delete anyone else's: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m…574642280118&z=14

Finally, heres the series put out by ECUAD that this is partially in response to with my position as a Programming Research Assistant blogs.eciad.ca/creativeknowledgesharing/

All creating, including of East Van as a location, is upon the sovereign Lands, Waters, and Air stewarded by the Stó:lō, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations

mapping east van project

Accessibility: link to timestamped transcript

[cover ID: digitally hand-written light blue-grey text says "MAPPING EAST VAN" above "W/ ECUAD Studio Class" in all caps. The text overlays a photograph with natural light coming from the bottom. A framed print of a Won Kang 2013 drawing is shattered on a light grey tiled floor textured like an ocean, a few big pieces and lots of small shards of glass are all over the floor. The print itself is of the East Van Cross by Ken Lum white neon against a twilight-sky background has silhouettes of an electric pole and cables.]

This is a map of East Van, and in no way is it objective. No map is. Maps are collections for stories of violence. So too, can maps hold tales of resistance, those who know that a story told can never die.

I'm Mickey Morgan, I use they/them pronouns, I'm a cartographer and translator and listener and storyteller. This map we’re making is composed in a matrix of stories shared using various media and is part of a few inter-connected projects like a zine, an open source map, and a podcast, but primarily these are ways to understand mapping as storytelling (and vice versa). This matrixed map is with the ultimate goal to encourage the idea of neighbourly-ness that entails not only basic kindness and respect but also mutual accountability, strengthened relations, and points for resistance and solidarity to flourish.

Thanks to all the folks in the ECUAD studio classmates who were willing to share their stories:

Kieran Muller

Erin Lucey

Carolina De Caija

Brenda Torres

Rebecca Wang

Wenqi Zhao

Randy Cutler

Scott

Stephanie Moscone

Ingrid Koenig

Christina Norberg

Cover image courtesy of Rebecca Wang, print by Won Kang '13

Thank you Andromeda Monk for the music!! Check out her album

Finally, heres the series put out by ECUAD that this is partially in response to with my position as a Programming Research Assistant for the Digital and Creative Knowledge Sharing Series

Some sources:

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim (language) map with multiple named translators/cartographers squamishatlas.com

access: written place names, translations, and graphic visuals

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory map

access: written and drawn, not screenreader accessible

Vines Art Festival list-style map of Indigenous place (Land Acknowledgement) for where the festival took place in 2018

access: written place names, translations, historical photographs

Virtual Museum of Canada page about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union

access: written descriptions, some images all without descriptive ID

All creating, including of East Van as a location, is upon the sovereign Lands, Waters, and Air stewarded by the Stó:lō, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations

Mapping East Van:
mappingeastvan.wixsite.com/home

Accessibility:
Timestamped transcript at this link
docs.google.com/document/d/1kIPIe…S7ixUxkxVLZ8/edit

[cover ID: digitally hand-written light pink text says "MAPPING EAST VAN" above "W/ MICKEY MORGAN". Digital text overlays a photograph from inside ECUAD campus looking outside through glass which has written on it "THIS IS EAST VAN" in black marker. Outside is the parking lot and Monte Clark, graffiti'd train cars fading in focus into the industrial grey horizon. End of ID]

This is a map of East Van, and in no way is it objective. No map is. Maps are collections for stories of violence. So too, can maps hold tales of resistance, those who know that a story told can never die.
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I'm Mickey Morgan, I use they/them pronouns, I'm a cartographer and translator and listener and storyteller. This map we’re making is composed in a matrix of stories shared using various media and is part of a few inter-connected projects like a zine, an open source map, and a podcast, but primarily these are ways to understand mapping as storytelling (and vice versa). This matrixed map is with the ultimate goal to encourage the idea of neighbourly-ness that entails not only basic kindness and respect but also mutual accountability, strengthened relations, and points for resistance and solidarity to flourish.

Thank you Pudding for the music!! Check out their album:
puddingvancouver.bandcamp.com/album/pop-over-2

You can also check out the Open Source East Van map that goes with this project, please feel free to add stories of East Van you know, but do not delete anyone else's:
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m…574642280118&z=14

Finally, heres the series put out by ECUAD that this is partially in response to with my position as a Programming Research Assistant for the series:
blogs.eciad.ca/creativeknowledgesharing/