Since 2012, more than 10,000 people have attended Creatively United’s live zero-waste Earth Day events. Now, every day is Earth Day on CreativelyUnited.org’s free community solutions sharing hub where people can post and see events, information, resources, videos and learn about more than 176 local and BC organizations making a difference, plus enjoy a regular webinar series featuring world class award-winning authors, presenters and artists.
We have compiled this list of Earth Week events with thanks to community input. Enjoy!
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Events & Resources at a Glance
Site C: Unsafe. Unnecessary. Unlawful. – April 20
Tuesday for Trees – Poems, Songs, Readings and Art – April 20
Grow Local, Eat Local Webinar – April 20
Cold Matters: Climate and Artists Free Webinar Series – April 21
Eco-consciousness Rising – Free Webinar – April 22
A Good War – Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency – April 22
Esquimalt Weekly Farmers Market – April 22
A Food System for a One Planet Region – April 22
Song Like a Seed; An Earth Day Fundraising Concert for Bowker Creek with Sara Thomsen – April 23
Youth-Led Strike for Old Growth Forest – April 24
Reduce your Home’s Energy Consumption – April 27
MyLivingCity Sustainable Community Showcase – April 28
GEN Ecovillage Summit – Recordings Available Until April 22
Planetary Health Annual Meeting – April 25-30
Meaningful Action for Earth Day by For Our Kids
Earth Week Events
Site C: Unsafe. Unnecessary. Unlawful.
Tuesday, April 20, 5 – 6:30 pm
Join West Moberly First Nations Chief Roland Willson, together with geotechnical expert Gilles Wendling for a conversation about the risks of Site C Dam, and the rationale behind the campaign to stop the project based on assertion of Indigenous Treaty rights. The event promises to offer insight into the ‘unsafe’ part of this project and the slippery slope that has led to the necessity of First Nations launching legal action to protect the Peace.
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6duzrhxARhaKITms15fLAw
Tuesdays for Trees – Poems, Songs, Readings and Art
Tuesday, April 20, 7 – 8:30 pm
Celebrating the major role that trees play in our lives. Original poems, songs, readings, photographs, paintings, and more. Featuring: Chris Bullock, Jane Welton, Frances Litman, Rhona McAdam, Daniela Elza, John Taylor, Carol Redl, Pat Miller, Hendrik de Pagter, Dancing Wolf, Cathy MacLean, John Mackenzie, Barry Hunt, Pauline Le Bel, May Partridge, Edward Butterworth, and Kay Stewart.
This event is held in support of the Tuesday for Trees campaign developed by the Climate Action Research team in the activist coalition Greater Victoria Acting Together (GVAT). A speaker from the Climate ART will conclude the event. The Church of Truth (COT), a member organization of GVAT, aims to be a “community of conscious living” supporting all spiritual paths.
To receive the Zoom link, please contact chrisbullock@shaw.ca
Grow Local, Eat Local Webinar
Tuesday, April 20, 7 – 8 pm
Featuring Colwood Community Garden and Pollinator & Indigenous Plant garden with Barbara Sibbald, Past President, Colwood Garden Society, and Little Free Plant and Seed Stand with Josephine Neufeld, Create Places Colwood Grant recipient
Free registration for this virtual (Zoom) event by email: ColwoodCENiC@gmail.com
Cold Matters – Climate & Artists Series
Wednesday, April 21, 11 am – noon
In keeping with the “what really matters” theme, this webinar will explore how much Cold Matters in terms of the roles in which snow, ice and permafrost play in the stabilization of the global climate system featuring Tom Axworthy, Dr. Louise Arnal, Bob Sandford and Mace Rosenstein.
Register here for free:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/2216098844970/WN_PGSr6F8pQ7CIhOR6MkBOgQ
Webinar: A Good War – Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
Thursday, April 22, 11 am – 12:30 pm
How can we take large-scale climate action to provide a healthy world for future generations? The task is daunting–but there’s hope.
Canadian author Seth Klein’s new book, A Good War, explores how we can align our politics and economy with what the science says we must do to address the climate crisis. Learning from the past, Seth investigates the way that Canada quickly–and radically–retooled its economy for the Second World War. Just as we have seen governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with speed and efficiency previously unimaginable, so too can we respond to the climate emergency.
Growing Canada’s Forests Program Virtual Discussion
April 21, 2 – 3:30 pm + April 28, 7 – 8:30 pm
In 2020, the Government of Canada launched a program to plant two billion trees in Canada over 10 years. On Feb 24, 2021 the federal government issued calls for Requests for Information (RFI) under the Growing Canada’s Forests program which are due May 27, 2021.
Do you need trees for any future projects? Join us to hear more and to participate in this discussion at one of the following virtual sessions:
Esquimalt Weekly Farmers Market
Thursday, April 22, 4:30 – 7:30 pm
The Esquimalt Farmer’s Market, a 75-vendor market, established in 2015, was recently named BC’s Farmers’ Market of the Year for 2020.
Esquimalt Farmers Market is grateful for the opportunity to operate on the unceded territories of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. It is a privilege to provide nourishment to Greater Victoria through use of this beautiful space.
A Food System for a One Planet Region
April 22, 5 – 7 pm
Linda Geggie, Executive Director, Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CRFAIR) will be joining Pierre Iachetti, Agriculture and Food Security Planner for Saanich, to discuss, A Food System for a One Planet Region.
Eco-consciousness Rising
Thursday, April 22, 7 – 8:30 pm
On Earth Day, HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of PEOPLE all over the WORLD will be affirming their alliance with EARTH…learning, growing, acting, being in alignment with eco-social-climate-justice values! This Earth Day celebrate our beautiful planet in community.
Youth-Led Strike for Old Growth Forest
Friday, April 23, 11 am – 1:30 pm
An online rally with a variety of speakers, and a video about the history of the Old Growth fight on April 23rd. We hope to show the outstanding amount of support these forests have with scientists, first nations, youth, activists and the BC community at large to all the MLAs.
Song Like a Seed; An Earth Day Fundraising Concert for Bowker Creek with Sara Thomsen
Friday, April 23, 6 – 7:30 pm
This concert will bring to you a packet of songs like seeds to care for the earth and each other. Plant them in the crumbling cracks around your heart, your country, your world. It will be a healing balm, a call to action, to blossom, to fruit, to harvest. Each note a nudge to kindle the heart, to raise up voices, to plant our own songs, our dreams, like seeds.
Reduce your Home’s Energy Consumption
Tuesday, April 27, 7 – 8 pm
Featuring Home Energy Assessments, Energy Coaches and Clean BC grants with Sam Wright, and Community Energy Coach, Clean BC + Solar Installations with Ric Perron, Owner of Perron Electric.
Free registration for this virtual (Zoom) event by email: ColwoodCENiC@gmail.com
Planetary Health Annual Meeting
April 25 – 30
The 4th Planetary Health Annual Meeting aims to bridge communities to achieve the Great Transition by highlighting collective planetary health values; showcasing change-making science, stories, solutions, and communities; and building systemic solutions across economics, governance, and civil society.
GEN Ecovillage Summit
April 9-15, Recordings available until April 22
The GEN Ecovillage Summit is an entirely free, online experiences hosted by the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and can be access from anywhere.
The Summit showcases how ecovillages contribute to the mitigation of climate crisis and function as resilient communities of practice bringing concrete solutions and actions for earth restoration, economic revival, social regeneration and cultural celebration.
MyLivingCity Sustainable Community Showcase
Wednesday, April 28, 11:30 am – 1 pm
Our Sustainable Community Showcase is an opportunity for local groups or projects advancing sustainability initiatives to tell their story and the community to get connected to what is happening to make their community more sustainable.
Save the Mountain Road 49-Acre Forest
April’s Featured Artist and Hotel Package
The deadline is fast approaching to save this precious wildlife rich ecosystem and see it become a park.
Creatively United and the Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT) have teamed up to provide a fabulous fundraising opportunity for donors to be entered to win a prize package of a two-night stay at the beautiful Oswego Hotel, located in the heart of Victoria, BC, plus a stunning b&w photograph, pigment ink on cotton rag paper from solarized Polaroid 55PN film negative (15×11.5” – matted to 24×20” – ready for framing), by internationally acclaimed Vancouver Island-based photographer, David Ellingsen.
David’s images speak to the relationship between humans and the natural world and is intensely focused on documenting the ways biodiversity loss and deforestation are affecting our environment. His photographs are exhibited internationally and are part of the permanent collections of the Chinese Museum of Photography, South Korea’s Datz Museum of Art and Canada’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Royal British Columbia Museum. They have been shortlisted for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Book Award, appeared with National Geographic, and awarded First Place at the Prix de la Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards.
As a freelance assignment photographer, Ellingsen worked with clients such as the New York Times Magazine, Business Development Bank of Canada, Canadian Medical Association, Oprah Winfrey Network, People magazine and CBC Radio Canada. More of David’s work can be found on his website and Instagram.
For details, and to make a tax deductible donation, please visit www.mountainroadforest.ca