Join local author Kallie George at a writing workshop for kids. This fun winter-storytelling workshop will allow kids to write and illustrate their own wintry tales, from winter legends or celebrations, poems or songs, or wintery adventure stories, to more. Kallie will share a little from her latest story, Heartwood Hotel: a Brave Beginning. Ages 5+
Saturday, November 28, 2:30 – 4:00 – on Zoom
Each year we hold an Open House, an opportunity for the community to come learn about their community forest. This year we are doing a drop-in style open house, so you can come talk to staff and involved community members to learn about what your community forest is working on this year for as little or as much time as you have to share with us, and focus on your areas of interest.
Specific topics around which we’ll have information to share, and people to talk to about:
– 2026 Operating Plan: Where and how we plan to harvest timber for the next 5 years following Ecosystem Based Management principles
– Growing the Community Forest: The Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) has purchased Forest Licence A86929 and is seeking to convert this 12,000m3 license into a Community Forest Agreement (CFA). This represents a generational opportunity to increase the footprint of forest land managed locally for long-term sustainability, and to renew the call for partnerships with First Nations and local governments.
– Our Board of Directors: Meet some of the passionate people who provide leadership grounded in their values as volunteer community members.
– Community Advisory Panel: A group of interested community members who meet monthly to discuss what they value in local forests
– Community Engagement: What we’re doing to support forest literacy through field trips, free land-based learning opportunities, donations and in-kind contributions of locally grown lumber for community projects.
– Light fare will be served.
Head to SCCF.ca/events to RSVP and you’ll receive a calendar invite and a reminder. RSVP not required.
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you try every stage of the printmaking process. Using ocean themed pre-carved blocks, you will do multi-block printing, carve your own salmon shaped lino blocks and make a fun booklet of salmon prints.
Instructor Jessica Salvador will guide you through the entire process from transferring an image, carving, inking, and printing. Print by hand, without the need for a press, and print using a registration tool to make multi-block prints. Take inspiration from our collection of templates, practice with pre-carved blocks or make your own design during free play time. You will have a chance to experiment with painterly printmaking techniques to make unique art.
[Jessica is the Artist in Residence at Tidal Art Centre for the month of October]
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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!
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!
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/
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/
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/
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
Learn what a heat pump is, the benefits of heat pumps, how to find a registered contractor and what rebates, financing offers and supports are available to help you upgrade your heating system.
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