Free Screening of City Dreamers

In honour of World Town Planning Day, the City is hosting a free showing of City Dreamers, a film featuring Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and other pioneer female architects.

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel is an architect and city planner who made a significant contribution to our City. Blache, together with her husband, Sandy van Ginkel, created the Bowring Park Plan for the park’s expansion, which included the design of the Bowring Park Cantilever Bridge. The van Ginkel’s brought on British engineer Ove Arup to complete the structural engineering work. Arup founded Arup Group Limited and is best known as the design engineer for the Sydney Opera House in Australia. The Bowring Park Plan and the creation of this unique cantilever is a great example of how planners, architects and engineers work together to create beautiful places in our communities.

• Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
• Time: 7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
• Location: Memorial University Bruneau Centre IIC 20011.

Guests can park in lot 15B. Metrobus also services the area through a number of routes.

For more information, email contact 709-570-2041 or acashin@stjohns.ca. 

World Town Planning Day provides an opportunity for communities all over the world come together to celebrate how good planning improves the lives of people and benefits society at large, creating places where to live, work and play together. Argentinian professor Carlos María della Paolera, a graduate at the Institut d'urbanisme in Paris, started World Town Planning Day in Buenos Aires in 1949. World Town Planning Day is celebrated in 30 countries on four continents each November. It is a special day to recognize and promote the role of planners and planning in creating healthy, prosperous communities.