#lekwungenterritory — Public Fediverse posts

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RAVEN Trust - Respecting #AboriginalValues and #Environmental Needs #nonprofit based in #VictoriaBC.

Join RAVEN this weekend for another round of Solastalgia: Addressing #Climate Anxiety through #CommunityBuilding and #ArtMaking. This will be our second #zinemaking #workshop. We will come together to discuss our climate anxieties (and potential actions we can take to address them) through community building and art-making. This #handsOn zine-making workshop will offer an opportunity to express some of our fears, ideas, and dreams when it comes to a more just and livable future.

Two awesome facilitators leading this workshop. Aneri Garg, #RAVENTrust Development Coordinator, and Desiree Wallace, a documentary filmmaker, digital campaigner, and organizer with #StandEarth.

https://raventrust.com/event/solastalgia-zine-making-2/

#MakeArt #MakeZines #CommunityEvent #Educational #Learning #YYJ #FernwoodCommunity #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #IndigenousLaw #CulturalConnections

Floating #freeloaders Friday.

#wildlife #seals #seagulls #LekwungenTerritory #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #marina

Local #bluegrass band, playing at #FallFairfield today.

Check them out at:
https://theoldestmaniknow.bandcamp.com/

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #LiveMusic #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #MusicInThePark #OutdoorConcert

My fellow #FoodSecurity pals were working the #LifeCycles booth. This was one of our first public events offering free tastings of our new juices - made from our B-graded local harvested fruits.

Come see me, at UVic, on October 2nd! I'll be there from early morning til early afternoon, manning a LifeCycles public info, free juice sampling & discount offers station there.

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #FallFair #juices #FreeSamples #LocalJuice

Local clown car drag show troupe performing their group closing act. A trans flag is pulled out during it! 💗❤️💗

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1coZLwpmbic

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #bubbles #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity #TransPride #AllAges #DragShow #Diversity #Inclusion #TransFlag

Our local clown car drag show troupe closed their set today with a group performance to #LadyGaga Born This Way song ❤️💗❤️💗
FIRE!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnw-mFf4Lk

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #bubbles #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity #TransPride #AllAges #DragShow

One of my faves today. She's super cute!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlmdcgNe5tc

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #bubbles #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity #TransPride #AllAges #DragShow #Cuteness

Another video clip from the fun, all ages drag show today!

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/YvSnC_g98V8

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #bubbles #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity #TransPride #AllAges #DragShow

Enjoy this #AllAges #DragShow video clip from today 💜❤️

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/WQHacbrKddE

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #bubbles #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity #TransPride

Some more highlights with local clown car drag show troupe.

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity #DragShow

I loved them all so much 💗❤️💗

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity

Bubbles man, delighting the children with huge bubbles 🥰

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #bubbles #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents

#TransPride support, with Clown Car drag performers 💗

https://fairfieldcommunity.ca/events-projects/fall-fairfield/

#FairfieldCommunity #CommunityFair #CommunityFestival #FamilyFriendly #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LekwungenTerritory #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FallFair #CommunityFun #WeekendFun #AllAgesFun #FreeEvents #diversity #inclusion #DragPerformers #ClownCarDrag #LGBTQ #TransCommunity

My little #video from our fun sail, this afternoon 😊

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBF0nPzKIxc

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub #Sisterhood #POCwomen #Sail

Took my Mohawk sister-friend, Ojistoh, out for her first sail. Gorgeous weather today & we had some nice breezes on the ocean ☺️⛵️💗

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #GetOutside #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub #Sisterhood #POCwomen

A dozen #teachers from the #GreaterVictoriaTeachersAssociation are expected to show up for a #rally supporting the #LGBTQ+ community at the #BClegislature on Friday.

The rally is one of a series of events across #Canada that day to counter what local organizers from the groups #1MillionVoicesForInclusion and Finn’s Future call the “transphobic rhetoric” of a previous 1 Million March for Children, which opposes teaching on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or #SOGI in schools.

The teachers will be advocating for SOGI education prior to the noon #Celebration of #QueerExistence rally.

SOGI in schools has generated protests in #BritishColumbia which #GVTA president Carolyn Howe said was part of the reason the #BCgovernment recently brought in rules to keep protesters off school grounds.

She said she doesn’t know of any such protests at local schools, but noted there has been “a worrying uptick in very vocal opposition to -inclusive practices around #GenderDiversity, both in schools and in the wider community.”

“Victoria schools have #queer staff, parents, students and we want everyone in the #2sLGTBQIA+ community to know we stand together.”

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/teachers-to-support-celebration-of-queer-existence-rally-at-the-legislature-9542241

#YYJpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli #CommunityRally #SuppportLGBTQ2S #SupportQueerCommunity #HumanRights #StudentRights #InclusionAndDiversity #VictoriaBC #AntiBigotry #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #FightTransphobia #TransphobicsHarmCommunity

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

My #slideshow video of sailing adventure today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=5iiCcLvzsR2DH9e7&v=8sffdfaw2Bk&feature=youtu.be

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub

Party waves. Not really. So many boats were out today. These weren't as big as some other wake waves from powerboats. I couldn't film anything when those larger wakes hit us because I was busy angling sailboat to counter them.

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub

Astrid(on the left) gave me some good news when I returned from my sail today. The Able Sail Victoria program will be extended into September. I'm stoked! I can get in more sailing practice 😃👍⛵️

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub

I had a fantastic sail adventure today. Took my friend, Nadene, out for her first Martin 16 sailing experience. She loved it & took a ton of photos. We had fab winds on the waters today & I got to do a lot of keeling 😀 Fun time, on the ocean, on a gorgeous day!

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub

Our rescue rangers came fast & pulled sailboat, far away from the rocks.

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub

My first sailing accident. Got caught on rocks. I was able to dislodge sailboat but waves kept pushing us back towards rocks.

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub

#MountBaker ahead of us.

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean
#boats #OakBay #RoyalVictoriaYachtClub

#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

#Windows Wednesday.

This is one of my fave old #church buildings in downtown Victoria. I've done some past nonprofit work to help marginalized youth through Threshold Housing Society. They ran free services to help get more social housing & independent living supports for vulnerable youths, especially those who were aging out of state care. Several different nonprofits still run multiple programs out of this church space.

It's the First Metropolitan United Church on Quadra at North Park.

#VancouverIsland #BrickBuilding #architecture #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #VictoriaBC #NorthParkCommunity #YYJ #PNW #VanIsle #WorldInMyEyes #HeritageBuilding #LekwungenTerritory

#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