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.
Tag: Environment
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: 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.
GPAG: ARTIST DEMO | Solène Chatain
Join us for an Artist Demo with Solène Chatain on Sunday, September 20th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
Based in Powell River (qathet), Solène Chatain is a mainly self-taught ceramic sculptor focusing on handbuilding techniques including slab building and carving. Chatain has exhibited her work in several group exhibitions in Powell River (qathet) as well as on Vancouver Island. She has also taught ceramic sculpture workshops in Powell River (qathet) and in Esquimalt. Her current series, ‘Iron Age Frescoes’, explores the fusion of silica and iron, two materials essential to creation throughout human history.
Art Exhibition: GPAG – SOLÈNE CHATAIN | Abandoned Hands
Exploring what we make by hand, what we build through technology, and what we leave behind, Solène Chatain’s ceramic sculptures reflect on the complex relationships between human ingenuity, industry, technology, and the natural world. Handbuilt and carved ceramic forms are combined with discarded fragments of rusted machinery gathered from beaches, forests, and industrial sites, transforming remnants of human industry into objects of contemplation. Through these sculptures, Chatain explores the tension between holding on and letting go, between progress and consequence, between the handmade and the technological.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Sat. Aug. 29th, 2pm – 4pm; and for an Artist Demo on Sun. Sept. 20th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
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
Moss, Mycelium & Magnificent Trees
Step into the quiet wonder of the forest and discover how moss, mycelium, and mighty trees are woven together in a living, breathing tapestry. This complimentary guided walk invites you to explore the hidden relationships that sustain our coastal woodlands, offering new ways to see, sense, and connect with the natural world.
This experience takes place in Roberts Creek, with meeting details provided in your confirmation email after booking. More info here.
Green Drinks presents: Toxic Trivia!
Busting Big Oil’s propaganda – one trivia question at a time!
FREE pizza, prizes, and a chance to connect with neighbours and community members who care about climate action. Plus, a ‘Make-Your-Own-Mocktails’ bar – we provide the fixings!
RSVP NOW: https://tinyurl.com/toxictrivia, and we’ll send you the location and more details.
Grab some friends and form a team, or wait to form a spontaneous one on the 14th! All are welcome.
Music for Endangered Forests – expansion Concert Series
3 Sundays, July 12, 19 & Aug 2nd. in support of the expansion and connection of Elphinstone’s protected forest areas above xwesam / Stelk’aya (Roberts Creek). The Concerts take place at the end of the Health Trail Forest Trailhead #1 this time (located off the Roberts-Flume Forest Service Road).
Gather at 2pm at the trailhead for a welcome and then hike for 20 min. to the concert spot. Allow about 3 hrs for the experience. Details here.
July 12 – Earth Slips – Malcolm Jack singer/songwriter with James Meger (Bass), Cole Schmidt (Electric Guitar) featuring poetry, field recordings, improvised drones and traditional folk structures in their natural surroundings.
July 19 – Forest Trio – Budge Schachte, guitar; Arista Hawkes, bass & Karen Graves, sax.
Aug 2 – Songs for a Listening Forest – Elisa Thorn, harp, voice; Nikko Whitworth, bass & Madeleine Elkins, guitar.
By donation.
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
Earth Day 2026 at the RC Pier
Come join us to celebrate Earth Day down at the Roberts Creek Pier Sunday, April 19th from 11:30am-5pm!
This year we look at Recycling on the Coast with Salish Soils
Booksale at the Library in the Heart of the Creek from noon-3pm
Conscious local exhibitors
Library Book Sale – noon-3pm
TraC Bike Valet & Tune-ups
Hot Food & Treats
Kidzone
Music!!!!
Pranakite
Mivule
DJ Coffee Break
and so much More that will be updated along the way!
It’s only with the help of volunteers that these events happen!
If you or someone you know is interested please sign up at:
volunteersignup.org/TTBEJ
Your community spirit is appreciated!
‘We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia.’
Environmental All Candidates Forum
Presented by the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association in collaboration with the Sunshine Coast Climate Action Network and Alliance4Democracy. JOIN US to learn about where candidates stand on the issues of climate change, forestry, watershed management and more.
SCRD: Tuesday September 27, 2022, 7:00 – 9:00 PM on Zoom
Gibsons: Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 7:00 – 9:00 PM on Zoom
Sechelt: Thursday, September 29, 20022, 7:00 – 9:00 PM on Zoom
On October 15th, voters across BC will elect new Local Government Councils and Boards to govern for the next four years. Crucial, time sensitive decisions about how our communities will face the biodiversity and climate crises will be made by this 2022-2026 local government cohort.
Environmental All Candidates Forum
Presented by the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association in collaboration with the Sunshine Coast Climate Action Network and Alliance4Democracy. JOIN US to learn about where candidates stand on the issues of climate change, forestry, watershed management and more.
SCRD: Tuesday September 27, 2022, 7:00 – 9:00 PM on Zoom
Gibsons: Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 7:00 – 9:00 PM on Zoom
Sechelt: Thursday, September 29, 20022, 7:00 – 9:00 PM on Zoom
On October 15th, voters across BC will elect new Local Government Councils and Boards to govern for the next four years. Crucial, time sensitive decisions about how our communities will face the biodiversity and climate crises will be made by this 2022-2026 local government cohort.
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