Calendar of Events
The Fresno CAN calendar of events will show information for upcoming resident meetings, outreach events, community meetings, community activations, community based-planning events, and more!
Community Vision Wonderland
Anchored to Fresno community’s Santa’s Village event at Gatson Middle School, the Community Vision Wonderland will provide residents a large-scale hands-on opportunity to interact with renderings, building materials, landscape features, and virtual concepts related to the CAN project. Project staff will be on-hand to explain the details and implications of the displays while receiving feedback and assessing the feasibility of resident choices.
The Spirit of West Fresno Exhibit: Community Stories and Memories with Spoken Word and Live Music
In partnership with local cultural arts partners, Thrivance Group will host a storytelling and spoken word night that thematically allows participants and attendees to creatively express their vision for the CAN community and broader Fresno. The event space will also include The Spirit of West Fresno: Community Stories and Memories Exhibit. This event will be in partnership with Fresno Arts Council’s Art Hop which happens the first and third Thursday of every month!
The Spirit of West Fresno: Community Stories and Memories Launch Day
Fresno CAN residents are invited to join the CAN project team for Community Story Mapping! Cultural mapping helps practitioners identify cultural assets that can and should be protected (or created) throughout and after the project development process. At this launch event, residents and community members will help determine people, places, invisible assets, and other dynamics that the CAN community considers (or would consider) an asset. Residents will also be encouraged to submit photo documentation that depicts current quality of life in the CAN community.
The community story and quality of life photo findings will be gathered (in person and online)for a month, followed by an unveiling community exhibit on November 13th.
Information for how and where to submit stories and photos will be shared on this activation launch day!
Community Walk and Roll Audit
Fresno CAN residents are invited to join the CAN project team for an afternoon to conduct a community audit that will help guide the community planning process. Using multi-media formats, such as photos, journal entries, voice memos, map-marking, and other methods, residents who participate will make observations about the neighborhood that will be incorporated into the transformation plan and website. Food and drinks will be provided!
Starting location: Close to Fairview Heights (2195 S Maud Ave.), look for the Fresno Housing canopy on California Ave.