Are you looking for a space for your organization, group, collective, friends can meet? Come over to Heartwood!

Reserving Tables 
For people interested in bringing your friends or group to Heartwood during an evening, we encourage you to make a table reservation . Making a reservation lets us know what to expect and helps us run a much smoother night! Please note that we have full venue events on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays - make sure to check out events calendar! 

For any bookings and table reservations, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by phone at (604) 872-3166. 


Booking Our Front Room
Our front room seats 20 people comfortably and can be closed off from the rest of the cafe crowd with sliding doors. We encourage everyone booking the Front Room to give a small venue contribution (suggested $20/hr, though pay what you’re able) back to the cafe. It’s these contributions that support Heartwood in continuing to be a community space where folks can connect, create, and collaborate! 


Changes in the Cafe
In the past, we know that groups were interested in booking the back booth for meeting space. If you’ve been to the cafe lately, you have probably noticed that our booth is no longer there. Over the past couple months we have been putting in new furniture and moving around the layout of the cafe. Sorry for any inconveniences in interior renovations! We are continuously figuring out ways to make our space more accessible and welcoming for folks. If you have any feedback for us, please send it over to [email protected].

Today Heartwood Community Café celebrates National Indigenous Day!
As a community space settling on the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh, Stol:o, Squamish, and Musqueam peoples, it is important for us to acknowledge that we are able to work, play, live, connect, and create on these lands as result of histories of colonial violence, genocide, and displacement of Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island, also known as Canada, and all over the world.
 
Peering into the news, we see pipeline and fracking expansion on Indigenous reserves, cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, an over-representation of Indigenous youth separated from families in the care system. We can no longer turn away from these invisiblized violences. Today is a day, especially for settlers, to take time to learn for ourselves the histories of the land we are on. 
 
Tonight, June 21st, Red Jam Slam, an organization that promotes emerging and seasoned Indigenous artists and performers, and COOP Radio are bringing in a full evening of events showcasing Indigenous artists, performers, and storytellers. For more information, please click through this link. 

We are also grateful for amazing organizations and community groups doing ally and solidarity work on Coast Salish territories, such as the Alliance for People’s Health who will be hosting a fundraiser for the Unist’ot’en Camp on Friday, June 27th. In our space, we’re lucky to be surrounded by community collectives like Rising Tide and The People’s Defense Frontadvocating against pipeline development, which continue in the genocide of Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island and beyond. 

Today and everyday, we stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities all over the world in the journey towards liberation and decolonization.

We are currently seeking a designer who can take our vision and translate it into a friendly and welcoming logo, signage, and basic marketing resources (ie. business card, pamphlet) for our cafe.

As a small, community-run business, our budget is unfortunately limited, though we are interested in finding ways to support design students, and newly graduated artists and designers. We are able to offer a flat $500.00 compensation upon completion.

If you are interested, please contact Melanie Matining at [email protected] with your portfolio and a bit about yourself by Wednesday, June 11th, 2014.