ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Kelowna, British Columbia
October 15-17, 2010
Kelowna 2010 -- Program Overview
Theme & Synopsis
This year's conference will address the unique planning and architectural challenges that small cities (pops. 50,000 to 300,000) face when trying to balance their heritage with their future aspirations. Events will commence in downtown Kelowna with a reception and keynote address on Friday afternoon in Kelowna's striking Rotary Centre for the Arts. Afterwards, there will be a walking tour of downtown Kelowna's Cultural District, the hub of Kelowna's efforts to revitalize its downtown core. On Saturday morning, proceedings will move to the UBC Okanagan campus located 20 minutes north of downtown, where conference papers discussing the heritage and challenges of various small cities in the US and Canada will be given. After lunch and a tour of the sustainable building initiatives on campus, a panel discussion that will be open to the public will take place on Kelowna's particular challenges, followed by dinner for conference participants in downtown Kelowna. On Sunday, the final day of the conference, participants will tour by coach important heritage sites and beautiful wineries, stopping to enjoy a gourmet lunch and sample local wines.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 15, 2010
Afternoon Reception & Keynote Address
(VENUE -- Rotary Centre for the Arts, South Atrium)
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Conference Registration & Coffee & Treats |
| 2:30 | Chapter President Welcome |
| 2:40 | Mayor's Address |
| 2:50-3:20 | Keynote Address & Questions -- Helen Cain, Planner, City of Victoria |
| 3:30-5:00 | Walking Tour of Kelowna Cultural District with guide |
Dinner on your own. Suggested spots: The Bike Shop Cafe, Gorgeous Georges, Dawwat's, Bai Tong, Earl's, Hannah's, RauDZ, Bouchon's Bistro.
Keynote Speaker Biography
Helen Cain is a planner with the City of Victoria in community and heritage planning. She is guiding the final stages of Victoria's transition to a value-based approach to built heritage, through updates to the Heritage Register, a municipal-level thematic framework and a community heritage planning framework. As part of the planning policy team at the City of Victoria, she has contributed the heritage content of the draft Downtown Core Area Plan, released in May 2010, and is the author of a paper, Heritage and Sustainability in Community Planning, which is informing the update of the Official Community Plan (OCP), 2010-11. Helen is also co-leading the design and delivery of the process for stakeholder engagement for the OCP. She serves on the Heritage Vancouver Board of Directors and has worked as a consultant with a small practice specializing in heritage and culture in policy and community planning. Most recently, she was co-author of Cascadia Region Green Building Council's 2010 report, Working Together to Transform the Built Environment: Green Rehabilitation in Climate Action. Helen was born in Lancashire, UK. She holds a Master of Arts (Planning) from UBC and a BA (Hon.) in Art History from the University of Alberta.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 16, 2010
(CONFERENCE VENUE -- UBC OKANAGAN CAMPUS, ARTS 103)
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration (outside ARTS 103) |
| 9:00-9:20 | Thaisa Way, "Contained memory in the urban landscape" |
| 9:30-9:50 | Patience Churchward, "Conveying Portland's History in Modern Use: The Role of Industrial and Cultural Heritage in Adaptive Reuse" |
| 10:00-10:20 | TBA |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE BREAK (ARTS ATRIUM) |
| 11:00-11:20 | Lynette Felber, "A Creative Solution: Found Architecture, the Vernacular, and the Bungalow as Teachers' Homes" |
| 11:30-11:50 | Wendy McClure, "Sustaining Inherited Morphologies in the Adaptation of Railroad Era Towns for Recreation Era Economies: A Case of Sandpoint Idaho" |
| 12:00-12:20 | Bryan D. Orthel, "Memory in the Pasture: Memorialization, Redevelopment, and Culture in a City in the American South" |
| 12:30-1:30 | LUNCH (ARTS ATRIUM) |
| 1:30-2:00 | TOUR OF UBCO SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS |
| 2:00 | PUBLIC PANEL DISCUSSION INTRODUCTION (ARTS 103) |
| 2:15-2:40 | Discussion Paper - Larry Foster, "Kelowna: Balancing Pasts and Futures" |
| 2:40-4:30 | Panel discussion (Panel TBC) |
| 6:30 | Drinks (Ric's Grill - Shine Lounge, 210 Lawrence Avenue) |
| 7:00 | Dinner (Ric's Grill - Shine Lounge, 210 Lawrence Avenue) |
SUNDAY OCTOBER 17, 2010
Driving Tour -- 9:30am to 2:30pm
| 9:30 | Tour bus pickup from Grand Hotel |
| 9:45-10:15 | Benvoulin Heritage Church Site (tour) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Father Pandosy Mission Heritage Site (tour) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Gellatly Nut Farm -IF TIME ALLOWS (tour) |
| 12:15-1:15 | Quail's Gate Winery - LUNCH @ Old Vines |
| 1:30-2:00 | Mission Hill Winery (wine tasting and view site) |
| 2:30 | Tour bus drop off at Grand Hotel |