If you ride the SkyTrain by Metrotown station, you might see a colourful display out your window.
Burnaby Neighbourhood House and Belford Properties have teamed up to create an interactive, colourful art installation on the structure around the construction site of Belford Properties’ Sun Towers on Beresford Street. The installation features umbrellas designed by children in an after-school program at Neighbourhood House set with LED lights that illuminate when coins are dropped into a donation box. Those funds go back to fund programs at Neighbourhood House.
Antonia Beck, executive director of Burnaby Neighbourhood House, said she thinks the community will enjoy the installation.
“When I see it, I think that it’s just such a beautiful aspect of the community,” she said. “It’s bright, and it’s engaging, and so you’re walking what probably would be a very ugly walkway, it’s actually really bright and beautiful because of this art installation.”
Belford Properties is building in the area and wanted to give back to the community, according to Beck.
The company offered to fund an after-school program for three years with the caveat they create an art element to be used in this installation.
