#esquimalt — Public Fediverse posts

A proposed development for a private property on Admirals Road will result in the removal of 33 #GarryOak trees. The #Esquimalt #Climate Organizers have started a petition to prevent this from happening.

This petition asks the #EsquimaltCouncil to deny the current #development permit for the property and require it to be redesigned to allow for the #preservation of the Garry Oak and #DouglasFir #ecosystem. The removal of these #trees would have a large negative impact on #habitat and hydrology for the community, and will require 66 #replacement trees elsewhere as per Esquimalt’s #TreeProtection bylaw.

Please sign the #petition
https://c.org/kgxpP2yfLd

#SignPetition #ClimateAction #Ecological #VictoriaBC #YYJ #ViewRoyal #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #CapitalRegionalDistrict #SaveTheTrees #biodiversity

Fruit sorting & annual harvest celebration info.
https://youtube.com/shorts/uuf2RUlzFcE?si=NUtx21qfuSEK0mVv

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/

#LifecyclesProject #teamwork #WellandCommunityOrchard #FoodSecurity #Fruits #Esquimalt #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunityWork #CommunityBuilding #EventPromo #FamilyFriendly #PublicEvent

The #fire is burning very steady now. I brought my big #WhiteSage #SmudgeStick - it's more like a baton - to honour the ancestors fire 🔥

#Indigenous #Esquimalt #NativeCulture #BCFirstNations #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #Cultural #SilentSunday

Beau working with Tyler, from #Esquimalt #FirstNation - crafting the maple branches for day 2 of men's group healing event. These will be used to mount the salmon we will be cooking over the fire this morning.
Beau & I are heading out to meet Tyler soon to build fire, butterfly & mount the salmon & other related preparation work.

It's a gorgeous day in Esquimalt & #Songhees territories. Sunny & warm morning!

#Indigenous #maple #woodcrafting #wood #NativeCulture #BCFirstNations #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia

We had an amazing public turnout for 2024 Esquimalt Lantern Festival. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen this year. I was working the lanterns making station inside the pavilion until 8pm. I walked around some of the festival after my shift.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1D2vpB-Hi8M

#EsquimaltLanternFestival #FamilyFriendly #Wsanec #VictoriaBC #FreeEvent #YYJ #VancouverIsland #art #CreativeArtists #PublicEvent #CommunityEvent #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #EsquimaltGorgePark #FreeFunForAll #VisualArts #puppetry #puppets #Saanich #Esquimalt #ViewRoyal #lanterns

I'll be at #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterway /Kinsmen park in a few hours to join the invasive green crab monitoring team. It's another trapping/netting day & I'll be documenting some of the project's work.

[ Since 2022, we have participated in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ European Green Crab Monitoring Project. European green crabs are a destructive invasive species that removes eelgrass very efficiently, destroying habitat for everything else in the Gorge. Unfortunately, we caught adult European green crabs in the Gorge for the first time in August 2024 through our monitoring program.

We are working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Peninsula Streams Society to remove as many as possible before the problem worsens. To prevent the spread of European Green Crabs, make sure to clean, drain, and dry off any watercraft according to BC Invasives. ]

https://www.gorge.ca/projects/european-green-crab-monitoring

#YYJ #Esquimalt #GorgeWaterwayPark #LekwungenTerritory #Songhees #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #Environmental #InvasiveSpecies #EuropeanGreenCrab #marine #DFO #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #conservationists #ecological #ecosystems #Naturalists #Cascadia #VanIsle #PNW

One of the new Indigenous friends that I made at the ribbon skirt workshop this weekend, Kecia, is a fellow weirdo Aquarian & from Namgis First Nation in Alert Bay. Although we just met, I've met some of her family from her birthplace prior - it was really cool to chat about those unexpected connections.

Kecia brought this bag that her niece, Brianna Dick, made. It's a gorgeous #PurpleCamas #CoastSalish design.
Brianna has an #OnlineStore where you can see/buy some of her #handmade #Indigenous #ArtsAndCrafts
https://briannabearart.bigcartel.com/

#BriannaBearArt is an Indigenous - owned and founded, #Canadian #artist store established in 2020 by Brianna Bear. Based in the traditional territory of the #Lekwungen, place to smoke herring lands of the #Songhees and #Esquimalt nations in #VictoriaBC.

​Brianna started first as an artist with more than fifteen plus years of experience. She began learning under her grandfather Skip Dicks younger brother, Butch Dick. Afterwards she branched out into discovering her roots and design through her #cultural connections to Songhees & #Namgis formline design.

Today, working as one of a few Indigenous female artist within her traditional territory of the Songhees people, she has worked on murals, logos, small business designs, small event designs and more!

Brianna believes in telling stories through her design as you will see through this site."

#NativeArtists #YYJ #IndigenousArt #SupportIndigenousWomen #BCFirstNations #IndigenousBC #VancouverIsland #Camas #VanIsle #Cascadia #Purse #CanvasBag #Stylish #FloralArt #NativeArt #PacificNorthwest #Botanical #PNW

#SilentSunday

Layered my analogue photograph, after scanning it, of a beautiful statue at #GorgeWaterwayPark - with a pastel background.

One of my fave local #PublicArt #statues is in Gorge Park. It's this #Indigenous #CoastSalish #woman resting on waters, with #ducks & #salmon.

Expand & flip phone sideways for better view 👌

#Wsanec #Esquimalt #Songhees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #SculptureArt #ArtInThePark #ArtLovers #LekwungenTerritory #NatureGuardian #NatureMatriarch #SeenAroundYYJ #DisabledPhotographer #YYJphotographers #WorldInMyEyes #MyPhotoArt #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #MadeInYYJ #Sculptures #ArtLovers #PhotographicArt #AnaloguePhotograph

Local #YYJ #artist Jessica Hickman is the festival organizer & #ArtDirector for Esquimalt Lantern Festival 2024.

I'm working with her, next Saturday, for the whole day 🥰

Here's some past #lanterns & #puppets that she has created:
https://jessicahickman.net/mixedmediamonsters/

#VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #Esquimalt #MixedMediaMonsters #PuppetMaker #VanIsle #VancouverIsland #BCartists #YYJarts #PacificNorthwest #PNW

Come enjoy the upcoming Esquimalt Lantern Festival, next month! Come visit & make lanterns at the maker station at lantern festival. I'll be manning that station from 6pm-8pm

The #Esquimalt #LanternFestival is taking place on Friday, September 13 from 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm.

This is a #FreeEvent and #AllAges are welcome to attend. There will be #LiveMusic, roaming #puppets, #FoodVendors, #FacePainting and #LanternMaking. Attendees are also encouraged to wear #costumes and bring their own lanterns.

Location: Esquimalt #GorgePark, #KinsmenGorgePark / #GorgeWaterwayPark - Japanese Pavilion area.

https://do250.com/events/2024/9/13/esquimalt-lantern-festival-tickets

#LekwungenTerritory #SongheesTerritory #SaanichParks #Wsanec #Saanich #Arts #FamilyFriendly #CommunityEvent #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VictoriaArtsCouncil #PublicArtEvent #CreativeEvent #ArtsAndCuelture #VisualArt #VancouverIsland #VanIsle

I'm going back here soon because I missed getting a shot of the other large #owl #mural on the front of this building.

#Esquimalt #Painting #PublicArt #ArtMural #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers #MuralArt #UrbanArt

#Esquimalt township/municipal #PlaceMaking art #mural on Fairview at Devonshire - right beside the old rail line. It's in the industrial area of Esquimalt. If you walk along Galloping Goose pathways, from VicWest by Johnson St Bridge into Esquimalt, you'll see tons of public art paintings - graffiti art & art murals line the regional trail in this area. An ever-changing, outdoors public art gallery. Enjoy a leisurely urban walk, while admiring some urban public art.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers

This graffiti art mural has a visually, #dizzying effect. There are thousands of words written all over it. The words are all overlapping each other. It would take so very many hours to decipher them all!

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers #VisualArt #WhatATrip #TrippyArt #Graffiti

#Nature will always reclaim, what selfish humans abandon.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #WorldInMyEyes #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #photography #NatureReclaims

This rad #bats & killer #crab art mural was very hard to photograph! It was behind a big fence. I had to slip phone - one hand into fence & try to frame it without a lot of room to do that well. I tried my best! It was quite difficult, especially when rain started to come down heavily.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers #painting

#BIPOC #faeries & #floral graffiti art murals.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers #fairies

More awesome graffiti art from Trackside Gallery. In the industrial area of Esquimalt.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMurals #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers

Can't have honey without #bees art mural. The bees were so well detailed.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers #pollinators #BeeLovers

My friend, Nadene, with some graffiti art & an #owl art mural.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers #WalkInTheRain

I was delighted to see #SailorMoon & Luna #cat art 😃

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers #Anime #Manga #GenX

We arrived at the community collage creating location only to be told that the event was cancelled & rebooked for Sept. 2nd. There wasn't an update on Eventbrite site & no emails were sent to folks who registered. Apparently, they only posted update on cancellation on IG & FB 👎 I told them they need to do it via their website & Eventbrite in the future because many people don't use IG or Facebook anymore.

Me & Nadene went for walk in the rain around Esquimalt & admired some public graffiti & mural art. I'll post more photos in a bit. Need to dry off a bit first.

#Esquimalt #TracksideGallery #PublicArt #ArtMural #GraffitiArt #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Art #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #OutdoorArtGallery #ArtLovers

Please come out & join me & my friends at the 4th annual #IYAḴT #Indigenous #MusicFestival! It will be great fun! Bring your friends & family!

A #free 2 night event for Indigenous & non-Indigenous folks. Celebrate #IndigenousPerformers from across #VancouverIsland who will be performing folk, rock, hip hop & more.
Craft & food vendors on site as well.

Location: #HamptonPark

Friday, July 26 from 6:00 to 8:00pm

6:00-6:15pm Welcome & #Esquimalt
#Drummers & Dancers
6:15-6:45pm A.N.S.W.E.R Drum Group
7:00-8:00pm OTR (Off the Reservation)

Saturday, July 27 from 4:00 to 8:00pm

4:00-4:20 Welcome & #Lekwungen #TraditionalDancers
4:30-5:30 Gary Petterson
5:45-6:30 Paint the Town Red
6:50-8:00 Myc Sharratt

#Wsanec #Saanich #IndigenousMusicians #IndigenousTalent #IndigenousLed #NativeMusicians #YYJevents #YYJFreeEvents #SaanichParks #FamilyFriendly #AccessibleEvent #AllAges #InclusiveEvent #VictoriaBC #IndigenousEvents #TourismBC #TourismVanvouverIsland #IndigenousCulture #VancouverIslandEvents #VanIsle #CoastSalish #PacificNorthwest #PNW #FirstNations #YYJ #NativeCulture #Grassroots #CommunityCulture #IndigenousBC