100% Vancouver- Introducing 5% & 36% !
November 10, 2010
100% Vancouver is a community celebration and involves a live band, a revolving stage, video projection, and the stories and individuals that make up our city. A commemorative book will portray of all the participants.
On stage a demographic portrait of our city is created using 100 people as defined by a set of statistics. Are you one of the hundred?
Name: 5% Rafael
Gender: Male
Neighbourhood: Grandview-Woodland
Mother-tongue(s): Japanese & English
Question: What do you see when you look out your kitchen window?
Answer: “I see the driveway, car wheels, and people’s feet.”
Name: 36% Naomi
Gender: Female
Neighbourhood: Westend
Mother-tongue: English
Question: Would you refuse to fill out the long-form census?
Answer: “No, but I’d be mad about it. The last one I filled out took 3 days.”
Are you one of 100?, Are you….
– 40-80+ years old?
– married/common law?
– a resident of Fairview, Killarney, Sunset or Victoria-Fraserview?
– is your mother tongue Punjabi, Russian, German, Polish or Greek?
If you answered yes to these questions we are looking for you!