Reaching Out to Our Community
Victoria West Urban Rain Garden
Dockside Green is proud to support the Victoria West Urban Rain Garden project spearheaded by Leadership Victoria.
The Urban Rain Garden project is an interactive outdoor classroom, to be built on the grounds of Victoria West (Vic West) Elementary School, and will provide students with the opportunity to explore issues of sustainability, eco-system degradation, and how they can make a positive contribution to environmental improvement.
Vic West students will participate in all stages of the project, from the design stage to planting the garden. In addition, a local artist will work with the class to develop artwork that will become a permanent part of the garden.
Visit the Urban Rain Garden website to learn more.
Public Art
Art plays an integral part of our overall plan for Dockside Green and its public spaces. These open spaces are a resource shared not only by people, but also a large diversity of plant and animal species working together to create a balanced eco-system.
Respecting and honoring the First Nations who lived on the land before us, the first piece of public art chosen to represent the Dockside Green journey of bringing the land back to health was a design of three canoes representing Vancouver Island's three First Nations - Coast Salish, Kwagulth, and Nuu-chanulth.
The second piece, decided on by a diverse community on interest, is a totem pole carved by master Coast Salish carver Charles Elliott. Another local Coast Salish artist, Butch Dick was commissioned to produce art work that would be used on manhole covers.
Future art pieces will reflect the setting of Dockside and its leadership in triple bottom line development.
