Hidden Messages

Active Transportation and Culture have partnered on Hidden Messages, a new project to bring poetry to city paths, trails and walkways. This project pairs 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 reveal 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 keep the words hidden, use your mobile device to listen to an audio clip of the poem using the accompanying QR code link, read aloud by the Poet Laureate!