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Register for the BRN webinar May 10, 2017
The Tamarack Institute is hosting a Building Resilient Neighbourhoods webinar, where we’ll discuss our learnings from the past four years of helping facilitate resilience efforts in Greater Victoria. Please join…
Call for City of Victoria Host Neighbourhoods!
Want to foster more connections between immediate neighbours in your community? Resilient Streets helps neighbours get to know each other and work together on a project to improve their block,…
Submit Your Story to the Resilient Streets Toolkit! (Deadline Extended to Feb. 10th)!
Do you know about or have you read or heard about any inspiring examples or stories of neighbours voluntarily collaborating together on their street or in their apartment or condominium…
Transition Streets Program
Transition Victoria pioneered the Transition Streets program. Watch a video about the first-ever Transition Street, which happened in Vic West. On a Transition Street, neighbours work together to learn how…
Laughing Allowed! — The Slapstick World of Neighbourhood Activism
See our Laughing Allowed production in action to learn how to playfully explore what we do and don’t like about getting involved in our local communities, and to use physical comedy as a different way of beginning discussions about some of those issues.
Create a Parklet from a Street
Los Angeles Communities are transforming underused areas of L.A.’s largest public asset—its 7,500 miles of city streets—into active, vibrant, and accessible public spaces with People St, a program of the…
Wine, Food and a Trojan Horse
These were some of the proven strategies for bringing neighbours together that emerged during a relaxed, collaborative Resilient Streets discussion in Saanich on March 27th: Wine, food, and a good…
Resilient Streets Projects Getting Going!
On March 6th we had another meeting for Victoria West residents to learn about resilient streets possibilities as well as to network and update each other about their own projects…
Building Thriving, Resilient Communities
This collection of books, online resources, trainings and courses was assembled by members and allies of the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC), who share a vision of a world that…