Featuring: Mieke Bray, Claudia Medina, Laura Piersol, Nadina Tandy, Kamala Todd, Clare Wilkening and others.
Closing Party: Saturday December 14th at 7pm
As a closing of the 2024 Sechelt Arts Festival, this exhibition brings together works by artists living on the Sunshine Coast that shares their stories of (and with) the Salish Sea.
Transportation Choices (TRAC) Sunshine Coast is pleased to invite you to a special evening of film, fellowship and fundraising. In collaboration with the shíshálh Canoe Family, we are presenting the short films “Dirt Relations”, “SHIFT”, “The Trail Before Us “and “Muuxtuu: First of Many Together”. These four biking films explore themes around reconciling our relationship with the land and each other.
This free, non-ticketed (arrive early!) event is a fundraiser for shíshálh Canoe Family paddling and land-based learning initiatives. Bring cash to donate.
Warm up this winter with a night of sensory discovery, seasonal produce, and story telling. Set amid blazing fires and twinkling lights, gather with old and new friends in the heart of the forest as we return to a time of candle light and tales shared.
Fill your belly with a family-style, 5 course feast – hearty plates are passed around as pots simmer over the open fire.
Let us warm your heart and delight your tastebuds with the magic of simple joys brought together in an evening like no other. Immerse yourself in the enchanting atmosphere as we welcome the Yuletide, surrounded by the stunning winter forest.
Don’t miss out on this unforgettable winter dining experience. Book your spot now!
Tickets are available at sliding scale cost.
Join us for a live online presentation with award-winning author Kelly Yang. Ms. Yang will share information about her journey to becoming an author, as well as writing tips. Ideal for grades 4-7
This program will be livestreamed to YouTube. Comments will be turned on for the Q&A and moderated by library staff. Find the event here: https://youtube.com/live/gIk8LEOIlDY?feature=share
We have a bunch of native plants including ferns and Oregon grape that need to get planted!!! We need your help!
DIRECTIONS: *** Please meet us in Roberts Creek Pier/Mandala parking lot.***
EQUIPMENT NEEDED:
Please bring gloves, eye protection and small and/or large clippers if you have them and we will also be doing some planting of native plants, please bring a good strong shovel and a watering can.
WHAT TO WEAR: Please dress for the weather, rain gear (if raining) outdoor/gardening clothes that includes long sleeves, sturdy waterproof boots are a must and a hat is recommended.
We look forward to seeing you all there! If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at scstreamkeepers@gmail.com.
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We have a gift in our community, Roberts Creek! It is the 2nd major spawning c
The Healthy Harbour Project is a collaborative effort between BlueAct Marine Society and the Town of Gibsons to monitor, develop, and restore critical nearshore marine habitat in the Recreational Water Lease area of Gibsons. In its fifth year, the Cleanup will take place on October 19th and 20th (Saturday and Sunday) where staff and volunteers will complete two shoreline cleanups and sort marine debris being collected. Saturday will be a shoreline cleanup from Gibsons Marine to Breakwater Beach and Sunday will be a cleanup from Gibsons Wharf to Armours Beach. At the end of each day, two keen volunteers will be awarded a BlueAct Marine Society T-shirt!
Come out to celebrate our beautiful creeks on the Sunshine Coast! We will have lots of fun activities! We plan on having kids activities, Information tables, beach cleanup and planting native plants!! Please bring gloves and wear solid outdoor boots! #SaveRSalmon #MotherEarth #WorldRiversDay2024
Aug 15 – 18th. Tickets for the 42nd annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts are on sale now. Get the schedule and all the details here.
Our 2024 authors include Carly Butler, Brent Butt, Charlene Carr, Kevin Chong, Sarah Cox, Gregor Craigie, Marion McKinnon Crook, Lorna Crozier, Wade Davis, Tara Sidhoo Fraser, Sam George, Jill Yonit Goldberg, Catherine Hernandez, Jess Housty, Susan Juby, Betty Keller, Deborah Kimmett, Naomi Klein, Grant Lawrence, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Simon Paradis, Waubgeshig Rice, David Roche, Kara Stanley, Iona Whishaw, Howard White and Shelley Wood—PLUS esteemed moderators Mo Amir, Megan Cole and Andreas Schroeder, and musical guest Jill Barber.
Join us on Cowrie Street in downtown Sechelt for our first-ever Car Free on Cowrie Day! Bike, walk, skate or take transit to enjoy live music by local band The Hook as well as food trucks, games, sidewalk sales at our local shops, and other fun activities.
Performing acoustic instrumentals, ambient loops, and folk songs rooted in the natural world, Matthew Lovegrove from folk songs joined by multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bate on drums and electronics filled with melodic loops and percussion.
In support of Elphinstone Logging Focus’s (ELF) ongoing campaign to stop logging in the Elphinstone Water Protection Forest. The Concerts take place in the Oxygen Trail Forest and next to the babbling brook, Stephens Creek, that flows through Roberts Creek / xwesam to the ocean. Directions on FB page here.
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Illustrating narratives around the history and life cycles of the North coast of BC, Jeff Wilson’s exhibition is inspired by his time spent immersed in the landscapes of BC’s coast during his 2023 Cassiar Cannery Long Art Residence. The North coast economy has long revolved around natural resource exploitation and trade, leaving the area susceptible to changes largely out of the control of its residents, and creating a particular and unique history of boom and bust economics. Wilson’s large scale acrylic paintings illustrate how this boom and bust pattern expresses itself in a natural and built legacy unique to BC’s coasts.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday August 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join our NEMO talk on June 6th to hear from Carl Olsen, an Indigenous knowledge holder from the W̱SÁNEĆ (wh-say-nech) nation on Vancouver Island, BC. Carl’s talk will outline the historical significance of clam gardens as a food source and how they are cultivated. He will also discuss past and present clam garden restoration projects, and where these projects are occurring.
Photo Credit: Carl Olsen
Join our final NEMO talk in the series where Susan Anthony will talk about the unseen underwater trash that fills up nearshore environments.
Human-made debris enters the water and disappears below the surface. There it stays, smothering the sediment and its organisms, leeching pollutants, and breaking into smaller and smaller pieces, but never going away. SeaChange and its partners have spent the last decade restoring and conserving nearshore habitats, which includes underwater debris removal.
Photo Credit: Susan Anthony
Attend our in-person World Oceans Day Celebration!
We’ll have live music from DJ Sam Pulpo, lots of fun activities, a free BBQ and a raffle with the chance to win some incredible prizes. Visit booths from organisations including the SCCA, shíshálh youth Cedar Weaving, Herring Enhancement Program, DFO, Oceanwise, Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers, & Sunshine Coast Tourism
Endless gratitude to our partners, donors and sponsors: District of Sechelt, Sunshine Coast Regional District, Sunshine Coast Credit Union, Sunshine Coast Arts Festival, BC Festivals Fairs and Events, The Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition, Vancouver Aquarium, Halfmoon Sea Kayaks, Pastime Games, Sechelt Fish Market, Ocean Club Cafe, Bitter End Marine Traders, Coast Gravity Park & Marinos Independent Grocers.
Join us on Saturday June 8th after our World Oceans Day celebration BBQ for a film screening of the documentary “Deep Rising” at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre.
Narrated and executive produced by Jason Momoa, Deep Rising takes viewers on an epic journey from the deepest depths of our ocean – the most uncharted and inaccessible place on our planet – to the future of green energy, and shows us how the two are inextricably linked.
Interwoven with awe-inspiring footage of the deep’s most dazzling creatures, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between our ocean’s fragile and mysterious ecosystems, and sustaining all life on Earth.
Please consider making a donation to our “Love our Oceans” campaign at the door
Photo Credit: Deep Rising official photo
Join us on Sunday June 2nd as we kick off our Sunshine Coast Ocean Festival with a film screening of “Patrick and the Whale” at the Sechelt Arts Centre.
Using stunning underwater footage, Patrick explores the fascinating nature of the sperm whale, attempting to shine a light on its intelligence and complexity, as well as highlighting its current and past relationship with humankind.
Join us to learn from Fiona Beaty, who will provide a whirlwind tour of some of the Sunshine Coast’s charismatic coastal species, from snails to eelgrass, and inspire audience members to connect with the sea as a form of climate and conservation activism.
Fiona is a settler marine ecologist, climate and conservation activist, and community leader. She is passionate about protecting people and nature from climate change using approaches grounded in collaboration, science, and creativity. She holds a doctorate in Zoology from the University of British Columbia, works as the Science Coordinator for the Indigenous-led MPA Network initiative in the Great Bear Sea, and advises myriad non-profit marine conservation initiatives in Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound and the Salish Sea.
Dianne Sanford from Friends of Forage Fish will be hosting a hands-on sampling session at Friendship park in Sechelt.
Come down to learn about what we do when we sample the beach for surf smelt and pacific sand lance eggs.
Dianne has been coordinating forage fish sampling on the lower Sunshine Coast for several decades. She works with volunteer citizen scientists to determine sand lance and surf smelt spawning presence at local beaches, information which was previously undocumented. This information is then submitted to a central database for public information.
We will also discuss the importance of these fishes to all of us, and their connection to eelgrass and orcas.
Wear your gumboots. Citizen science in action!
Photo Credit: Dianne Sanford
