On May 4th and 5th, 2013, Reginans will take to the streets to participate in their fifth annual Jane’s Walk, a series of free neighbourhood walking tours that explore our collective history, architecture, planning and personalities.

Jane’s Walk is an annual celebration of people and cities held around the world on the first weekend of May. Through the simple act of walking together and discussing what makes a neighbourhood, Jane’s Walk helps knit people together into strong and resourceful communities. Celebrating the legacy of Jane Jacobs, the foremost urban thinker of our times, Jane’s Walk inspires citizens to get to know their city and each other by getting out and walking.

In Regina, volunteer tour guides customize their tours with personal stories, local perspectives and insider information to help bridge social and geographic gaps and create a space for Regina to discover itself. They cover the everyday and the extraordinary. To celebrate their 5th year, Jane's Walks are offering tours that explore everything from modernist architecture to community murals, and timely discussions about heritage, booming development, and housing in our city.

This year's Janes Walks include:

* Professor Marc Spooner leading a discussion about homelessness in Regina’s downtown and Heritage neighbourhoods;

* Jan Morier and Jessica Hannah providing a view of community murals created by new and established artists throughout North Central;

* Martin Gourlie leading a discussion about the opportunities and challenges inherent in one of Regina’s biggest development projects, the Regina Revitalization Initiative;

* An exploration and celebration of the Central Library by a collection of dedicated patrons including heritage architect Bernard Flaman, and writer and activist Florence Stratton;

* Bike Regina hosting a ride through the downtown to discuss bikability in the city;

* Story-teller Vincent Murphy exploring the history of the Warehouse District;

* And Jeannie Mah returning to host her popular tour of modernist architecture in the downtown.

For more details and walk times, go to http://janeswalk.net/index.php/walks/canada/regina/

Regina’s Jane’s Walk is organized and presented by Regina Urban Ecology with many community partners.

50 years! Modernist Central

Date: Wednesday, Dec 5th at 7:30pm
Location: Central Library, 2311-12th Avenue

Friends of the Regina Public Library (FRPL) would like to celebrate the official opening day, 50 years ago, of the Izumi-designed modernist Central Library by inviting the public to join us in a walking tour of Central Library! People are invited to talk about a specific part of the architecture of Central Library that touches them, a special place within the library that they love, or a library service that they could not live without. They welcome contributions from the audience.

For more information, contract FRPL at email: frpl@sasktel.net; phone: 535-9570; or website: www.friendsofrpl.ca

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Regina Tornado, a number of events are taking place on Saturday, June 30th at the City Square Plaza and Victoria Park. Besides unveiling a plaque to commemorate the event, the City of Regina has created a self-guided walking tour. To download a copy of the walking tour go to Regina.ca/Heritage & History.

Four downtown churches will be open for public tours:

• Knox-Metropolitan (11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.);
• First Baptist (11:30 to 2 p.m.);
• St. Paul’s Cathedral (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.);
• Blessed Sacrament (12:45 to 2 p.m. – Mass is being held earlier so people are asked not to enter the church prior to this time).

Knox-Met and First Baptist were damaged and St. Paul’s was a triage centre in the aftermath of the disaster.

Regina's Development Review Branch prepared the self-guided walking tour brochure for downtown. Pick one up at the Legacy event or at the four churches. The brochure provides information about the architecture and history of these churches and other buildings of the era along with details of the 1912 tornado.

Most of the events are being organized by the Regina Tornado Legacy Group and the Spiralling Forces Festival. For a detailed program on the events of June 30 visit www.spiralingforces.ca

Also, be sure to check out the great CBC website on the 1912 Regina Tornado: http://www.cbc.ca/sask/features/1912/

This month, Heritage Regina will be conducting a series of FREE guided walking tours.

Their goal, as always, is to give Reginans, and visitors too, a better appreciation of Regina's history and built heritage.

Each of the tours will take place on a Sunday afternoon, beginning at either 6:30 pm or 2:00 pm. with each tour lasting approximately two hours.

Here is the schedule:

July 16 - 1911-2011: Celebrating the Regina Municipal Railway and Old College Avenue
Meet guide Robin Adeney at Darke Hall, College Avenue and Lorne Street, at 6 pm.

August 7 - Old Lakeview
Meet guide Jackie Schmidt at the main entrance to the Legislative Building at 2 pm.

August 14 - Regina as Seen from Wascana Lake
Meet guide Will Chabun at the Wascana Marina parking lot at 6 pm.

August 28 - The Transition Area
Meet guide Grace Alexopoulos at the gazebo in Central Park at 2 pm.

For more information, contact Bill Brennan (Heritage Regina) at 585-4214.

The Regina Plains Museum will be hosting a free historic walking tour of downtown Regina this Friday, June 10 at 2:00 p.m. This walking tour takes participants through some of Regina's oldest and most notable downtown landmarks, and runs about an hour in length.

For more information about the walking tour, please contact the museum at 780-9435.

This month, Heritage Regina will be conducting a series of FREE guided walking tours.

Their goal, as always, is to give Reginans, and visitors too, a better appreciation of Regina's history and built heritage.

Each of the tours will take place on a Sunday afternoon, beginning at either 6:30 pm or 2:00 pm. with each tour lasting approximately two hours.

Here is the schedule:

August 8 - Regina as Seen from Wascana Lake
Meet guide Will Chabun at the Wascana Marina parking lot at 6:30 pm.

August 15 - Historic College Avenue
Meet guide Robin Adeney at Darke Hall, College Avenue and Lorne Street at 2:00 pm.

August 29 - Old Lakeview
Meet guide Jackie Schmidt at the main entrance to the Legislative Building at 2:00 pm.

For more information, contact Bill Brennan (Heritage Regina) at 585-4214.

* June 29, 2010:

The Regina Public Library Film Theatre will show two well-regarded
documentary films, starting at 6:30 p.m.:

Boxcar Rebellion (the Stevens and Silver directed film for Barna Alper Productions)
and
The On-To-Ottawa Trek(a documentary by Sarah Diamond).

Both films are just under an hour in length.

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* July 1, 2010:

11:00 a.m. to 12 noon - a walking tour, starting at the front of the Regina Police Station and then to the Scarth Street Mall with expert commentary on the Regina Riot sites and the locations of significance to the Trekkers of 1935

Download the 75th Anniversary Trek Events brochure here (Saskatchewan Federation of Labour).

Monday, June 21, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Downtown Regina

In honour of Aboriginal Day, Regina Public Library in partnership with the Regina Plains Museum and the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild, presents a walking tour of downtown sites connected with Riel's life, followed by a reading of his poetry by Jesse Archibald-Barber and other readers.

The agenda is as follows:

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Meet at Regina Plains Museum, 2nd floor, 1835 Scarth Street and view the displays

7:00 pm - Tour leaves the Regina Plains Museum

7:45 pm - 8:00 pm - Tour ends at RPL Film Theatre (lower level), Central Library

8:00 pm - Riel poetry reading, RPL Film Theatre

For more information or to register, call 777-6120.

On May 1st and 2nd, hundreds of Reginans will take to the streets for the 2nd annual Jane’s Walk, a series over 15 free neighbourhood walking tours that explore our collective history, architecture, planning and personalities. Last year’s walk saw more than 400 residents explore 12 walks across the city.

Celebrating the legacy of Jane Jacobs, the foremost urban thinker of our times, Jane’s Walk inspires citizens to get to know their city and each other by getting out and walking. Last year 46 cities took part across North America, offering 315 tours to over 10,000 walkers. This year Jane’s Walks will span 65 cities worldwide (35 in Canada, 25 in the USA) with an estimated 450 walking tours on offer. Along with Regina, partnerships this year include Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Chattanooga, Saskatoon, Victoria, and Jane’s Walk is also expanding internationally with walks scheduled in Mumbai, Goa, Dublin and Madrid.

In Regina, some of these tours will include:

• Conservation architect, Bernard Flaman, discussing 20th century architecture in the downtown;

• An exploration of suburbia in the North West end of the city as it relates to contemporary art;

• “Talking Hillsdale” - a collection of personal stories and observations touching on everything from the crumbliest pavement to the tallest tree– interpreted by local poet and professor Gerry Hill;

• Local conservationist Jennipher Karst and Jim Elliott exploring the natural and built history around Wascana Lake;

• Selene Deschenes providing a walking discussion about the history of theatre in downtown Regina with “Flickers, Talkies, and Black Tents”;

• And James Hoffman returning to host a very popular tour of the Heritage Neighbourhood.

For more information about the various tours, click on the link to Regina's Jane's Walk web page.

Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society
2010 Motorcoach Tours

Click here for full descriptions of the tours and a downloadable registration form. Please note there is a discount for Early Registration on all tours.

Tour # 1 Wednesday June 9 - Friday June 11, 2010
150th Anniversary - Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stanley Mission

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Tour # 2 Friday June 25 to Sunday June 27, 2010
Tour # 3 Friday July 9 to Sunday July 11, 2010
Tour # 4 Friday August 6 to Sunday August 8, 2010

North-West Resistance (visit to ten sites in Saskatchewan and Alberta)
(note: this is the same program offered on three different weekends)

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Tour # 5 Saturday August 21 to Sunday August 29, 2010
The Palliser Expedition - Part III (focus on the Expedition's time in Alberta, going as far west as the Kootenay Valley in British Columbia)

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Tour # 6 Saturday September 18 to Sunday September 26, 2010
Nova Scotia Bound

Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society
Executive Director: Finn Andersen
1860 Lorne Street
Regina, SK, S4P 2L7
306-780-9204 or 1-800-919-9437
e-mail: shfs.fa@sasktel.net
Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society web site: www.shfs.ca/
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