DVA Forums

Community Issues Forum

This forum explores what it means to be a community and seeks to help us define what we have now, what we’d like to have in the future, and what it will take to help us move forward to our shared vision. Community Issues Forums offers you an opportunity to contribute to that imagined future.  If community is created by community what are our interests?  What are our issues?  What kind of community do we have?  What kind of community do we like?  What contributes to our interests?  What could contribute?

Chair:    Herman Mah
               BCIT Downtown Campus

Email:   Herman_Mah@bcit.ca

Urban Development & Transportation Forum

Urban design has a powerful impact on our community, its culture, and its economic and social development. The scope for pursuing our interests as they relate to these issues is undertaken with a view to giving members ample opportunities to help influence the future of our city. If urban design contributes to our cultural, community, economic, and social development, what issues are we concerned about?  What opportunities and ideas do we have for creative urban design?

Chair:   Graham McGarva
              VIA Architecture

Email:   gmcgarva@via-architecture.com   

Committee Members: Laurie Anderson, SFU Vancouver, Jas Sandhu, Colliers International, George Wong, Magnum Projects Ltd.

Meetings: Urban Development & Transportation Committee regularly meets on the 1st Thursday of every month. Contact chair for details.

Arts, Culture & Heritage Forum

If cultural development contributes to our community development, social development, and sustainable economic development, what contributes to our cultural development?  This forum provides an opportunity for members to create and contribute to our cultural development...

Chair:   Max Reimer
              Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company

Email:   mreimer@vancouverplayhouse.com

Small Business Forum

Small Businesses are vital to the cultural, social and economic well-being of Vancouver. At these series of forums we hope to inspire entrepreneurs to improve their companies by seeing how they connect to the greater fabric of the city.  The complexities of juggling the many components in a smaller enterprise can lead us to new ventures, new ideas and dynamic partnerships.

Chair:   Raewyn Seeto
              Hay & Watson Chartered Accountants
               
Email:  raewyn.seeto@gmail.com