Member for Vancouver West End. Thank you honorable speaker this last weekend in the West End, we celebrated arts in the city. It's a long-standing festival, put on by the West End Community Center Association, a celebration of Visual Arts and pottery. Indeed, you can find me drinking my morning, coffee every day from a mug that I purchased right there.

Now, that's not the only Center for arts in the West End Of course, just outside the doors you'll find the John Ferry murals on just about every wall of that Center, including a small piece put up by my own son, a very good artist. I must say up the street you'll find mole hill and where we have the mole hill, Gallery mole, Gallery featuring artwork from local artists.

Most every weekend down the road you've got Gordon house where I'm really proud to say they've taken on work with Keith Spence Now Keith is a Squamish native Shin artist, and this last summer he engaged the community to carve the very first house Post in the West End in over a hundred years and this summer, there's more work to come and I can't wait to help announce it now going Beyond there, of course, over in Coal Harbor we have the Performing Arts Lodge, with this Resident Theater Company Western Gold every night, most Summers, most Winters, most every night, you'll find incredible artwork there from the theater artists in the community.

We got Roadie house with its history museum, Davie village, where of course, you'll find drag performed just about every single night and then, if that's too much for you, you can pick up a book from ronsdale press. One of the ones I'm reading currently is about the late great MLA and late great Nishka, leader, Frank Calder.

Now, there's playwrights, there's performers, you turn on the TV, you look it up on Netflix you'll, see West End artists on our screens as well. So I just want to say: please join me in celebrating the Arts. They are what make us who we are celebrating the artists and all those who help artists Thrive. Thank you. Honorable speaker,.