First Kamloops Idea Festival, Saturday Jan 12th 2013 !

      
  

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hosted by Kamloops City Councillor Arjun Singh

The Kamloops Idea Festival will be from 9am to 12pm on Saturday Jan 12th at the Irving Barber Centre at TRU.

Registration is now closed. Please contact Arjun at 250 377 1797 for any final space availability.

• "Lightning" Talks Presenters and Topics
• Draft Agenda
• Broad Facilitation Philosophy for the Kamloops Idea Festival
• Getting to the Kamloops Idea Festival

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The Kamloops Idea festival is an opportunity for Kamloops citizens to get a broad overview of what’s happening in town, to dialogue with each other over community issues, and to get inspired about the many opportunities we have to collaborate and work together.

The festival will go for three hours and will consist of:

• short “lightning” talks about a diverse range of innovative Kamloops initiatives - from the business, social services, cultural, arts, and other communities.
• small group dialogues on community issues
• short performances by Kamloops musicians
• a volunteer “fair” showcasing some awesome volunteer opportunities in the community.

The goals of the Kamloops Idea Festival:

• to allow another opportunity for Kamloopsians to get to know each other
• to allow Kamloopsians an easy way to learn about a diverse range of local activities
• to guide the 2013 work of Councillor Arjun Singh
• to have fun while thinking more deeply about our community

Comments

[Bob Boonstra]

Kamloops should be able to provide more pedestrian access along waterfront and downtown areas and create people-friendly outside spaces in one of the riverside parks by doing one or more of the following:

1. Narrow Schubert Drive and make vehicle access one-way along its length (or part) so as to allow wider pedestrian and people space along the west side of the North Thompson.

2. Create a pathway along the east side of the North Thompson for pedestrian access by working with the Indian Band. Hours of access can be limited or restricted seasonally.

3. Make Victoria Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues a pedestrian only venue to encourage more pedestrian use of this space. Access as a pedestrian "mall" can be restricted or limited seasonally.

4. Create a winter-use outside skating rink in Riverside or Pioneer Park for free winter skating. Include lighting so that it can be used until about 10:00 pm. Kelowna has such a rink for public use and it is well attended.

5. Re-pave and upgrade the Highland Drive access to Juniper Ridge to allow for better pedestrian/cycling/vehicle access to and from the subdivision. This road is about 30 years old and has seen no upgrades.

[Arjun Singh]

Thank so much for your comment Bob Boonstra. Looking forward to your participation in the ideas festival!

[Frank and Jan Dwyer]

Regrets: Jan and Frank Dwyer were registered for this welcome community intiative. Regretably, we will not be able to attend owing to a death in the family. The funeral is in Kamloops on Sunday. We hope the event is well attended and prompts many ideas. One comment. There have already been weighty warnings by news paper editorialist cautioning that ideas be practical. Well one way to quash ideas, before they are well considered, is to judge them impractical at the onset. I hope the idea fest will be unfettered and bring forward truly novel even visionary concepts. Best of luck.

[Arjun Singh]

Very sorry to hear about your loss Jan and Frank. Thank you for your thoughts.