chinatown graffiti

• Vancouver street artists craft mural for Chinatown business that challenged graffiti taggers

  Tommy Wong wrote a message responding to vandals who had repeatedly targeted his business. It caught the attention of DTES street artists who offered to help.

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  Jun 17
  
• Chinatown mural painted only 5 weeks ago already covered with graffiti

  Bradley Spence, who owns a business in the Vancouver neighbourhood, said he is not surprised by the latest act of vandalism and that he is taking action.

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  May 30
  
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• Vancouver Chinatown merchant writes message to graffiti taggers targeting his storefront

  Vancouver City Coun. Pete Fry said Wong’s gesture is an appropriate response to the often racist graffiti in the neighbourhood.

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  May 16
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• Street and mural artists work to change narrative on Vancouver Chinatown graffiti

  An iconic Downtown Eastside street artist is lending his voice to efforts to clamp down on graffiti vandalism in Vancouver's historic Chinatown.

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  May 15
• Community turns out to help restore defaced mural in Vancouver’s Chinatown

  The mural, inspired by a well-known Chinese folktale about spirits overcoming overcoming adversity, was covered in graffiti in March.

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  Apr 17
• East Vancouver volunteers help take back neighbourhood ‘rocked with graffiti’

  Almost every weekend, Hastings Sunrise Community Policing Centre volunteers crack open the paint and work together to get rid of unwanted graffiti scrawled on walls and buildings.

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  Apr 10
• Lion statues in Vancouver’s Chinatown vandalized yet again

  Lion statues at the Millennium Gate and the nearby Vancouver Chinese Cultural Centre have been repeatedly targeted by vandals, sometimes with explicitly racist graffiti.

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  Apr 9
• Province willing to work with City of Vancouver to help stop Chinatown graffiti

  B.C.’s attorney general said he’s willing to partner with the city of Vancouver to help take back the heritage community.

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  Apr 8
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• Chinatown business owner launches petition to stop vandalism and ‘hell pattern’ graffiti

  Liang You Book Co. Ltd. owner Peter Lau decided to start his own protest against the rampant vandalism in Chinatown with a petition demanding accountability.

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  Apr 3
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• ‘Heartbreaking’: Mural defaced in Vancouver’s Chinatown as graffiti spree persists

  “We poured our love to the community into making and maintaining this mural," artist Sean Cao said.

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  Mar 23