Photo – UWinnipeg’s Richardson College for the Environment and Science Complex
WINNIPEG, MB – It’s time to pull out your sneakers and learn more about the history and diversity of Winnipeg. Jane’s Walk takes place this weekend and The University of Winnipeg is pleased to participate in this annual exploration of our urban neighbourhoods.
Urban Renewal and the University of Winnipeg
May 3, 2014 at 12:30 PM
Walk Leader: serena keshavjee
Meeting Place: University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave
On this walk-about we will look at The University of Winnipeg’s place in downtown Winnipeg. Since the late 1950s, UWinnipeg’s mandate has been to make education accessible to the community, even utilizing a popular slogan during the 1970s, “the city is our campus.” University Presidents have been aware that in order for the University to succeed, the city must also flourish. At various time over the last 50 years, UWinnipeg has used architectural expansion, not only to service its own needs, but to help keep Winnipeg’s downtown vital. On our tour we will look at UWinnipeg buildings old and new, as well as some of the neighbours in the “downtown arts precinct,” at the corner of Portage and Memorial. I contend that UWinnipeg has successfully used architecture since the 1960s to contribute to the revitalization of Winnipeg. The tour will begin in front of Wesley Hall and will end at the Richardson College for the Environment and Science Complex.
Walk Leader
serena keshavjee
Serena Keshavjee teaches modern art and architecture at The University of Winnipeg. In 2006 she edited Winnipeg Modern Architecture 1945-1975. Currently she is researching an article on Winnipeg architectural photographer Henry Kalen.
Fort Rouge Forever…along with beer, bears and a story about the real golden boy of Winnipeg!
May 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM
Walk Leader: Jino Distasio
Meeting Place: 390 Osborne Street at The Banana Boat
From old breweries to race tracks to fisticuffs, Riverview is an area steeped in a colourful history that includes a cast of characters that have made the neighbourhood the best place to live in Canada. This walk takes you through more than 100 years of history with a focus on the last 50 plus when a family of Italian immigrants moved into the neighbourhood (along with a few of our friends) and forever changed the neighbourhood and Fort Rouge for the good! You’ll hear some stories and a few myths that might make your richer if you dare chase golden dreams…
Walk Leader
Jino Distasio
Jino Distasio has lived in the Fort Rouge area all his life and during the day he heads up the Institute of Urban Studies at The University of Winnipeg.
Jane Jacobs was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve and fail that now seem like common sense to generations of architects, planners, politicians and activists.
MEDIA CONTACT
Diane Poulin, Senior Communications Specialist, The University of Winnipeg
P: 204.988.7135, E: d.poulin@uwinnipeg.ca
