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How To Lead Your First Jane's Walk

If you are interested in volunteering or leading a walk please email us at: janeswalksaskatoon@gmail.com

On Safari

Meet Your City... Join us as we “hunt” for birds, plants, and other animals found in the architecture on 21st Street. Tour includes a map and colouring pages which can be revisited and coloured at home.

Tour Guide: Jody Cason is a board member of the Saskatoon Heritage Society.  In recent years she has published a colouring book detailing historic landmarks in Caswell and Riversdale.  She was inspired by the work of Peggy Sarjeant, another SHS Board member, who designed the original map used “On Safari”.

http://www.janeswalk.org/canada/saskatoon/

Thinking about Leading a Tour???

JANE’S WALK LEADERSHIP

SASKATOON

Helping others to “Meet Your City”

Jane’s Walk is a series of free neighbourhood walking tours that helps put people in touch with their environment and with each other, by bridging social and geographic gaps and creating a space for cities to discover themselves.  Since its inception in 2007, Jane’s Walk has happened in cities across North America, and is growing internationally.

Jane’s Walk honours the legacy and ideas of urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs, who championed the interests of local residents and pedestrians over a car-centered approach to planning. Jane’s Walk helps knit people together into a strong and resourceful community, instilling belonging and encouraging civic involvement. All Jane’s Walk tours are given and taken for free.

Leading a Jane’s Walk is easy and fun!  There are very few qualifications to take it on, other than a willing energy and knowledge or curiosity about your city/neighbourhood/community.  You don’t need to be an expert!

Ask yourself a few questions

 Is there something about my community that I already have a keen interest in, or want to know more about?

Am I willing to organize an hour-long walk accompanied by others who have a genuine curiosity about things that go on around them?

Am I passionate about anything in my community? For example, have I observed health or social issues, architectural concepts, art, history and heritage, walkability or activity, transportation, cycling, environment or culture in my neighbourhood?

 Am I OK with chatting in a friendly fashion with a group of 10 – 15 strangers who are keen to hear what I think and know?  Am I interested in their ideas?

If you answered yes to anything above, you’ll make a great walk leader!  Over the next weeks:

·         Do a bit of research on the neighbourhood or concept that grabs you.  Keep a few notes to inform (as well as learn from) others.

     Think about concrete examples in an area of the city that will help visualize the idea you want to showcase.
 Prepare some ideas about the narration you’ll give as you direct people through that area, highlighting various aspects of your topic.
Map out your route, and rehearse a little to make sure you can finish close to where you started within about 1-1.25 hours, leaving plenty of time for questions and discussion as you go.
Think about a time slot on Saturday or Sunday May 2^nd or 3^rd. (For example, a high-traffic area might be better at a quieter time of day.)

How could it be any easier?  We’ll help you every step of the way:

Your walk will be publicized on our website, posters, Facebook and Twitter.
You can attend a friendly “getting started” coffee time at Amigos Cantina on 10^th Street, on Sunday April 13^th at 2 pm.

·         We’ll provide you with volunteers to assist you as you walk, making sure the stragglers are safe and you have the material you need.

·         If you’d like, we’ll arrange someone to snap some photos as you walk.

·         We’ll highlight a few of the walks on Thursday May 1 at 7 pm in the downtown library. We’re showing a film and talking about a few of Jane Jacobs’ ideas. (You can also stay afterwards, and enjoy a coffee and cookie with other Jane Jacobs’ fans, volunteers and walk leaders.)

·         We’ll give you a tee shirt to wear as a walk leader, and to take home as a souvenir.

·         We’ll treat leaders and volunteers to a BBQ thank-you!

In past years, Jane’s Walk has seen leaders walk about their neighbourhoods, sharing stories about who lived in particular homes or when the first houses were built.  We’ve had people tell us about public art.  We’ve had city planners tell us about their vision of the future, and we’ve had a health walk about various community organizations located in a neighbourhood.  Whatever your interest, a walk can be done!  Jane’s Walk is a great way to spend a weekend walking, talking, learning and sharing ideas about living together in our great communities.  

We hope you’ll become a walk leader and share your story. 

Jane Jacobs would be so pleased! 

SASKATOON Jane's Walk Schedule

Thursday, May 1, 2014
7:00 pm @ Frances Morrison Library
Jane's Walk Information Session

Jack Sures: A Sensual Touch a film by Linda Corbett

Canadian film

[S.l.] : Eyeris Inc., 2011.
This film is approx. 26 minutes long

JACK SURES_a sensual touch

synopsis

Sensual, seductive, juicy, voluptuous, magic. These are some of the words people use to describe Jack Sures’ work in clay. It’s an intimate relationship that has lasted over five decades.

In JACK SURES_a sensual touch, filmmaker Linda Corbettpresents the magnificent public mural work of this internationally renowned Canadian artist. Born in the small prairie town of Melita, Manitoba, by the 1960’s Jack had studied in the U.S.A., travelled in Europe and worked at Chelsea Pottery in London, England and on the Tel Katzir Kibbutz in Israel.

“The first time I touched clay you could feel this organic, living mass ready to grow into something.” - Jack Sures

The deepest influences on his work have been Japanese aesthetics, Surrealism and the work of Hieronymus Bosch, but as part of the Regina Clay Movement, his early art flirted with California Funk imagery. As the film examines his murals for the Sturdy-Stone Centre, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Mino ‘89 / International Ceramics Competition and other locations we grow to appreciate how Jack Sures’ art engages us outside the gallery in an art experience that celebrates the tactile connections to nature in our everyday lives.

“He is as plastic as the material he is using.” - Timothy Long

eyeris inc. 2011© RT: 26:52

Complimentary Refreshments

Friday, May 2, 2014 - One Walk in evening

Saturday, May 3, 2014 – Up to 8 Walks per day

Sunday, May 3, 2014 – Up to 8 Walks per day

Keep checking here for more detail

Quote of the Week - Jane Jacobs

On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz

Jane's Walk Friends, you might enjoy this book.........

From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. 

Alexandra Horowitz’s brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, “the observation of trifles.” On Looking is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer. 

As the million-plus readers of Inside of a Dog have discovered, Alexandra Horowitz is charmingly adept at explaining the mysteries of human perception. Trained as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. On Looking presents the same engaging combination, this time in service to understanding how human beings encounter their daily worlds and each other. 

And Remember, you do not have to have expert eyes to lead a Jane's Walk...lets talk

Quote of the Week - Jane Jacobs