Join us for a gathering of storytellers, sharing their yarning with water. From poetry and storytelling, to spoken work and play reading, each weaves joy, hope, anger, distress and possibility, inviting us to be with the complex emotions of climate grief and loss.
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Sechelt Arts Festival: How Water Remembers Art Activation + Discussion
Join us for an activation and discussion of Laiwan’s How Water Remembers, a multi-part artistic project that aims to build awareness and cultural value in developing sustainable ecologies for humans and biodiversity. By increasing ecological biodiversity, scientists believe we can slow down global warming and also increase protections against future pandemics. How Water Remembers encourages a vision of a more livable city with sensitive landscape architecture that enhances biodiversity, while respecting our interconnected livelihood with the many diverse critters whose habitats may be currently endangered.
We will play The Divination Game that invites us to embody the qualities of the inhabitants of mudflats. The first 5 participants will receive an artist edition.
September 20, 2pm-4pm
Sechelt Arts Festival: Art Talks: Making with the Salish Sea (online)
We are bringing back Art Talks, a series of discussions that centre on issues and ideas connected to contemporary art in the 21st century. Offered online they are an opportunity to learn, share and discuss wide ranging topics that intersect with making art at this moment in time. Threading theory, practice and art, these discussions will provide a chance to delve into ideas, unpack understandings, and challenge assumptions. In the second session we will consider artists, projects and practices around the Salish Sea, and how they help connect audiences to specific sites of climate transformation.
Sechelt Arts Festival: Art Talks: Art & Climate Change (online)
We are bringing back Art Talks, a series of discussions that centre on issues and ideas connected to contemporary art in the 21st century. Offered online, they are an opportunity to learn, share and discuss wide ranging topics that intersect with making art at this moment in time. Threading theory, practice and art, these discussions will provide a chance to delve into ideas, unpack understandings, and challenge assumptions. In this first session, we will look at artists and practices that consider a changing climate with a particular focus on our warming oceans.
Sechelt Arts Festival: Public Talk: Making Art in a Changing Climate with Dr. Amanda White and Laura Kozak
This lecture and discussion considers how artists and curators are thinking with a rapidly changing climate. How can art provide a space for more than contemplation and awareness, towards the possibility of transformation? What creative forms and material responses invite us to consider art as a site for urgent action?
Your resilient neighbourhood begins at home: a practical intro
This 2 hour workshop is sponsored and hosted by St Hilda’s (Anglican Church in Sechelt) Green Parish Action Team and is presented by Nicole Hartley Bradford, a global Regenerative Culture Experimenter and Trainer.
The workshop will occur during the Season of Creation, a time of year when many Christian groups bring focus to appreciating and better stewarding this beautiful Earth.
The goals of the workshop are for you to leave feeling enthusiastic about having come, having met people who listened, heard, felt and shared precious information and possibility for real-world action that will be fun and easy to take, and with a sense of having more resources and agency than before for your path into the future.
For this goal to be reached:
No religious dogma will be delivered, and no adherence to Christianity is required to join.
We will do practical exercises designed to empower possible steps you can each take to reduce anxiety about the current times by building:
– agency,
– connection,
– trust,
– personal food and water pantries,
– personal and/or community food gardens and water caches, and
– access to ever more possibility as time rolls on.
The Workshop Outline:
Circle Convergence
Welcome, What to Expect and Group Agreements.
In small groups and with the whole group, work with these questions:
Who are you and what brought you here today?
What do you worry will happen if food prices keep rising or food accessibility becomes more limited?
What action have you taken so far to mitigate your worries?
Given what you have shared and heard here so far, what do you want to create to have more resilience, less stress and more resources?
Hear from Nicole about what she has done so far personally in her own game of “Becoming more prepared and resilient during uncertain times.”
Become an Experimenter.
Discover and design your next experiment, and next steps.
Final feelings, thoughts and appreciation.
Circle Divergence
Optional:
Participant Feedback
Join a local Telegram group of Conscious Experimenters
Donations for the St Hilda’s Green Parish Action Team’s ongoing projects will be gladly received.
Suggested Donation: $2 – 20.
So begins a choose-your-own-adventure game that you can play according to what is most important and relevant to you, during and beyond the workshop.
Summer Walking Tours with Talaysay Tours
A shíshálh historical walking tour through history, memory, and place. This 75-minute experience shares stories of Gibsons and the Sunshine Coast through Indigenous perspectives, oral history, ancestral memory, and connection to place. By donation to the Museum.
Free but must register. Meet at SC Museum & Archives in Gibsons.
Tour Dates – Click Link to Register
Sunday, August 9 – Sign up
The 6 Profit Levers: Grow Your Business & Income Without Chasing More Sales
Do you ever feel like you’re working hard to grow your business, but your income doesn’t reflect your effort? Instead of working more hours or chasing more sales, what if you could keep more of the money you’re already earning?
In this 90-minute in person workshop with Jordan Tait of The Intentional Business, you will learn how to find $30,000 to $100,000 in profit that is already sitting inside your business, waiting to be unlocked.
You will learn:
The 2 fastest ways to add profit to your business starting today
How to identify your biggest profit growth opportunities without adding to your workload
How to double the value of every hour you work without working more
You’ll walk away with clarity, confidence, and a clear path to more profit.
Who this is for:
Small business owners doing $100K or more who feel like their income does not match their effort and want a smarter path to growth. Participants will leave with a simple profit growth action plan to earn more money this year.
Space is limited to maintain an interactive setting with room for questions, discussion, and applied learning. Reserve your spot today!
SC Arts Centre: Community Training and Peer Led Panel Discussion
Want to talk about drug use and drug toxicity on the Sunshine Coast? Come visit Jackie Dives exhibition “Of Course This Hurts”, get Naloxone trained, and then bring your questions and curiosity to an “ask us anything” community panel.
Huge thanks to the Community Action Team for facilitating this offering. Immense gratitude to Jackie Dives and her photography practice. We are so thrilled to be supporting this work!
Roberts Creek Elementary Writers’ Showcase
Join us for an hour of stories celebrating the Roberts Creek Elementary writer-in-residency program with bestselling children’s author Tanya Lloyd Kyi. The event will showcase writing by students in grades 5, 6 and 7 and will be hosted by Kyi. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served. No registration required.
The event is sponsored by Celebration of Authors, Books and Community (CABC), an initiative of School District 46 and the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, and funded by a responsive community grant from the Sunshine Coast Foundation.
Sunshine Coast Ocean Festival ( June 8-14 )
Join us for the Sunshine Coast Ocean Festival, a week-long celebration of our coastal environment taking place June 8-14.
Events include film screenings, NEMO talks, citizen science activities, beach cleanups, and hands-on learning experiences for all ages.
Hosted by the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association, this festival brings together community, education, and action in celebration of World Oceans Day.
Locations across the Sunshine Coast
View full schedule: sunshinecoastoceanfestival.com
Hand Reef and Sew Basic Leather and Stitching Workshop
Basic Level Workshop 01 takes place at Hand Reef and Sew’s studio shop in beautiful lower Gibsons. In this workshop, Participant’s will learn a basic understanding of the hide, common types of leather and their applications, characteristics and general tanning practices. We will look at the basic tools, their uses, hand stitching in order to create your own card wallet. Included in the basic level kit are two harness needles, waxed linen thread, leather card wallet cut and pricked. Foundational seminar and step by step instructions for the saddle stitch with images in a handy booklet.
FREE Foundations of 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusivity
Interactive session for businesses and service providers on creating inclusive, affirming spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities on the coast.
SSAC: Lecture Series: Dr. David Laycock
Taking Democracy Seriously in Canada and the USA. His talk will focus on 6 key criteria for
democratic assessment, as Canadians face notable challenges to our democratic self- governance. This talk will interest both those who attended last time, and those who did not!
Energy Projects: Which Do I Do First?
Space is available in this course for homeowners interested in Energy Conservation and Renewables. You’ll discuss how to lower your energy bill and reduce your carbon footprint, learn how to calculate payback, and look at how the order in which you make improvements can impact the total capital cost and final savings. Part of ElderCollege’s Fall line-up, 4 Wednesdays starting Oct 5, 10AM-Noon, Gibsons Public Market. Click on this link to register ($35):
https://sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca/product/energy-conservation-and-renewable-production/
Energy Projects: Which Do I Do First?
Space is available in this course for homeowners interested in Energy Conservation and Renewables. You’ll discuss how to lower your energy bill and reduce your carbon footprint, learn how to calculate payback, and look at how the order in which you make improvements can impact the total capital cost and final savings. Part of ElderCollege’s Fall line-up, 4 Wednesdays starting Oct 5, 10AM-Noon, Gibsons Public Market. Click on this link to register ($35):
https://sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca/product/energy-conservation-and-renewable-production/
Energy Projects: Which Do I Do First?
Space is available in this course for homeowners interested in Energy Conservation and Renewables. You’ll discuss how to lower your energy bill and reduce your carbon footprint, learn how to calculate payback, and look at how the order in which you make improvements can impact the total capital cost and final savings. Part of ElderCollege’s Fall line-up, 4 Wednesdays starting Oct 5, 10AM-Noon, Gibsons Public Market. Click on this link to register ($35):
https://sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca/product/energy-conservation-and-renewable-production/
PR – Public Guided Tours of Wildwood Ecoforest
3rd Sunday of each month. Choose from a start time of 1pm or 2pm. A 1.5-2 hour guided tour and learn why old-growth Coastal Douglas-fir ecosystems like Wildwood are so important
Come and learn about ecoforestry, a practice that preserves forest ecosystems while providing for ecologically appropriate levels of harvest.
Cost: $20/adult; $10/child Registration is required. Learn more https://www.ecoforestry.ca/public-tour-1