Remembering the 2021 Heat Dome

Please join UBC researchers and Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, United Way BC Healthy Aging, Climate Disaster Project, and Seniors for Climate for an event on Sunday August 16th to remember the 2021 heat dome. The heat dome was responsible for 619 deaths across BC. The community partners and UBC researchers are building a “living memorial” project to the 2021 heat dome and the impacts of extreme heat. This project remembers those who we lost and works to bring continued awareness to the lived experience of extreme heat.

The event will include: a premiere of video testimonies from the Climate Disaster Project; a community art project to decorate fabric squares in memory of the heat dome; an opportunity for community members to share their heat experiences in a community roundtable; and storytelling from Kung Jaadee, an Indigenous (Haida, Musqueam, Squamish) storyteller, educator and published author. A light lunch, snacks, and refreshments will be provided. Please register.