Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 11, 2023
• Invested on: June 25, 2025

Savannah Tennessee Elaine Walling, C.M., and Terry Hunter, C.M.
Vancouver, British Columbia

For more than five decades, Savannah Walling and Terry Hunter have led a visionary, community-engaged arts practice with, for and about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. As the founders, and artistic and executive directors, respectively, of Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, Hunter and Walling have produced innovative art through creative and respectful partnerships with people, cultures and the community, in celebration of the human spirit.