Zero Waste

Zero Waste and Culture collaborated on an initiative that engaged the objectives of a Zero Waste to encourage Nanaimo’s community to reduce waste and improve recycling efforts. Designed by WILD/FREE Creative, the designs were installed on Recycling vehicles, in addition to the creation of a colouring book aimed at youth.
Hidden Messages

Active Transportation and Culture partnered on Hidden Messages, an innovative project that brought poetry to city paths, trails and walkways. This project paired design studio Webb Creative with Nanaimo’s Poet Laureate, Kamal Parmar, to create disappearing poems spread across the City at ten locations:
McGirr Sports Field Trail
E&N Trail at Northfield Road
Haliburton Multi-use Path
Colliery Dam
Bowen Park Trailway
Queen Elizabeth Promenade
Departure Bay Walkway
Walley Creek Trail
Front Street
Metral Drive at Mostar Road
Activated by water, the poems revealed themselves on rainy days, encouraging folks to get out and explore the City's growing network for cyclists and pedestrians in all kinds of weather. If sunny days kept the words hidden, trail users could use their mobile devices to listen to an audio clip of the poem using the accompanying QR code link, read aloud by the Poet Laureate!