Our Storied Path
Welcome to the project page for Our Storied Path. As a 2025-2026 Engaging Artists in Communities project, this work aims to connect young learners’ thoughts and feelings about how to imagine active transportation for the Tomsett neighbourhood and community. The project will engage City of Richmond Transportation Engineering and Parks Services. Students will engage in multiple artistic mediums and activities, including neighbourhood walks, storytelling and ceramic art making projects.
The project began in September 2025 and will culminate in June 2026 with a legacy artwork informed by students. A school-wide celebratory gathering will share the project with the wider community. Please check back here for weekly updates on the project.
January 2026
Welcome to Our Storied Path
Starting the project and a new year! We are up and running with “Our Many Storied Paths” project, and it has been quite a month.
At the start of the month, we returned to Alexandra Park to walk along the paths many of us take on our way to school each day. We also checked in each week to see how many of us are walking and cycling to school, and discussed what might encourage everyone to use more active transportation options.
On January 13, we returned to the school to explore how clay as a medium might help tell stories about our neighbourhood and the diverse forms of life we share it with. Some of these plant-life stories are coming to life on bowls that we will later use in our community celebration.
On January 20, we welcomed special guests from the City of Richmond: Kevin from the Parks Department and Nathan from the Transportation Department. We met with them at Alexandra Park and explored the layers of planning and design involved in creating a park. We also learned about many of the plants and animals that share our park and call it home. Particularly exciting were the Barn Owls, which have two different nesting boxes in the park, and the trees that have existed since the time of the dinosaurs.
