Luna Aixin
art & writings
Luna Aixin
月爱心
Community and Cultural Planning
I have always been a facilitator and have been unconsciously and consciously been facilitating since I was a kid.
I was known always to teachers and principals as the "organizer" behind many fun skip-school activities such as getting my classmates to catch guppies in the drain during a rainy day, instead of studying for math. I was always the most joyous when I got to see others do well, and when I was a kid, it meant seeing the smiles on my friends' face when they saw something exciting.
My experience with facilitation has come a long way since 1999, from organizing "guppy catching" to facilitating groups where we root into conversations about racism, equity, violence, gender, class, trauma, disability, diverse abilities, sexual health, immigrant experience, and collective care.
Partners I have collaborated with include:
As a community planner, I believe in facilitation work...deeply.
Intimate experiences of colonial oppression and violence personally, relationally and systemically connected me to the experiences and plights of marginalized folks, including myself.
City of Vancouver
City of Burnaby
City of New Westminster
Metro Vancouver Regional District
Translink
Magpie's Nest Community Arts Society
Community Arts Council of Vancouver
International Centre of Art for Social Change
WePress
Vancouver Moving Theatre
UBC Learning Exchange
Silver Harbour Seniors Center
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
North and South Burnaby Neighbourhood House
Collingwood Neighbourhood House
CityHive
Qmunity
UBC Learning Exchange
Happy City
Simon Fraser University
Concert Properties
Qualex-Landmark Properties
Keltie Craig Consulting
Licker Geospatial Consulting
Kevin Kapenda Consulting
PosAbilities
Burnaby Association of Community Inclusion (BACI)
Kinsight
Inclusion Powell River
Building Caring Communities
abOUT
RealTalk
S.U.C.C.E.S.S
Burnaby Family Life
Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table (BIPT)
Current Projects
Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) brings together housing providers, researchers, wellbeing experts, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in BC’s fast-growing vertical communities.
This multi-stakeholder community of practice will also pursue systems-oriented dialogue to look at improving the regulatory and funding environment to better support the sociable design of multi-unit housing, and programming that improves health and well-being outcomes.
The Collective emerged from collaboration between staff involved in the City of Vancouver’s 2018 Hey Neighbour! pilot project and a number of advisory committee members working on similar projects. It has now grown into a multi-stakeholder collaboration across BC.