Amplifying Community Voices for 10 Years |
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The 10 year anniversary of Creatively United for the Planet’s first Earth Day event was celebrated with an incredible panel of youth voices that featured five young Canadian changemakers working in creative ways to help amplify youth voices in the fight against climate change with research, policy, community building, education and environmental activism. |
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Facilitated by Creatively United’s social media youth lead, Ella Kim Marriott, this webinar includes discussion about the transformative change that is coming about through youth activism and intergenerational equity and includes questions such as: - What kind of programs and opportunities are out there for youth who want to become changemakers?
- What kind of inspiration can we draw from the youth-led climate change movement?
- What kind of innovative climate action is being taken/can we take to tackle the issue of climate change?
- How can people from different generations connect with each other to work on common goals?
- How can older generations support youth-led solutions to climate change?
Presenters include: Veronika Bylicki, Brynna Kagawa-Visentin, Isabelle Sain, Brennan Strandberg-Salmon and Ryder Wise. |
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Featured Events & Stories Did you know that you can learn about upcoming talks, gatherings, news and post your events and stories free-of-charge to CreativelyUnited.org
Here are a few examples of what you will find: |
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City of Victoria: Endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Thursday, April 28th, 6:30 pm PT |
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Speakers include Nancy Macgregor, Emily Lowan (Divest UVic), Elizabeth May MP, Tzeporah Berman (Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty). Come early to fill the council chambers at 6:30 pm. Write to the Council: mayorandcouncil@victoria.ca |
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We act and fail to act in this troubled and wondrous world in part because of the key stories and images we live out of. This gathering will allow us to explore the good possibilities story making and image making offer for our ecological or social love labours. Abounding will be presentations of and conversations about story circles, theatre, visual art, storytelling, song in collaborations engaging just this world and its challenging realities. So come let us speak together of such artful things and the ways and wisdom that give the heart and head and feets a shake and music by which we heavy footed dancers may lightly dance. For we see how arts may strengthen and lighten the love labours of each of us. Street protesters, activist ecologists, social justice advocates shall be joining presenter musicians, storytellers, poets of the eye and ear. This conference has been generously supported by the “Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation” and the Foundation’s ‘Mentors’ and ‘Scholars’ are among its resource folks: Nadia Joe, Patrice Sauve, Joel Bernbaum, Bob Haverluck. $25 in person registrant donations will go towards supporting the MHC Gallery (donation tax receipts available). $10 online registrant donations will go towards covering conference costs (donation tax receipts not available).
Contact Selenna Wolfe, swolfe@cmu.ca, 204.487.3300 ext. 344 |
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Hug the Mountain! Stand against the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Saturday, May 7th, 1-4 pm PT |
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From Protect the Planet, Stop TMX: We need to attract 5,000 people who will assemble in a huge human chain, circling Burnaby Mountain in a hug, to convey a powerful message of shared concern for our Mother Earth. Bring your family and friends, a lawn chair and picnic. Become a part of local history, and be on record for protecting the planet! See https://hugthemountain.ca and the Facebook Event |
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Re-imagining is a practice of hope needed to sustain our planet. The first step is to reflect on the ways we have storied our belonging and connections to the natural world. Stories that call the land a resource — or privilege human-made hierarchies — need transformation into narratives that inspire responsible ways of relating with the natural world. In this five-session workshop, participants will engage with the practice of “re-storying” through writing and illustration exercises. In each session, participants will re-imagine narratives that encourage reciprocal relationships with the natural world and those who inhabit it. At the end of the workshop, participants’ creative work will be showcased in a collective online publication. Click here to apply for this workshop |
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The story of Fairy Creek comes to the world stage! In the summer of 2021, Canadian filmmaker Peter von Puttkamer and his crew made the trek to Fairy Creek to document the struggle and speak first-hand with the forest defenders passionate about saving the old-growth forest. Narrated by Peter Coyote, The Last Stand showcases much of that footage. The Last Stand documents the peaceful protesters who sang and drummed for the Old Growth at Fairy Creek, British Columbia, a story covered by much of the world’s press. Forest Defenders came by the thousands to the remote logging roads on Vancouver Island using their bodies and love of the forest to stop the destruction of the last 3% of BC’s Old Growth forests. These are the people who want to protect our planet and who are up against the system that wants only to generate profit and remove the very last of these ancient groves. The film speaks to the complexities of the situation and the competing interests for the last of our natural resources. Learn more here |
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Transformational Possibilities |
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Do you feel paralyzed when you can’t see a solution or a way forward with the seemingly endless bad news? Creatively United's founder and webinar host, Frances Litman, is dedicated to showcasing and sharing positive solutions that offer transformational possibilities for a more just and sustainable world. Her first TEDx Talk: How to Heal the Future, Not Steal the Future has just been released and can be seen here. |
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Translink wants feedback on it 2022 Investment Plan: 10-Year Priorities Submitted by WE-CAN |
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Call Katrine Conroy to Save
Howard Breen's Life Submitted by Extinction Rebellion Nanaimo |
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Howard Breen, a 68 year old grandfather on day 21 of his hunger strike, will go to bed and from the moment he wakes up on Friday he will be refusing to drink any fluids. Let’s recognize that this incredible human, who has committed his life to so many environmental and social justice causes around the world, is preparing himself to die in the next 12-48 hours. Click here for more information |
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Creatively United for the Planet is a registered non-profit society. Since 2012, we have been leading, convening and amplifying ways to share how collectively we can reduce our ecological footprint and implement long-term sustainability solutions. Our mandate is to foster conversations, connections and create collaborative opportunities that bring individuals and organizations together in support of achieving common sustainability goals and accelerating climate action. Creatively United is a member of the Westcoast Climate Action Network and works collaboratively with numerous community organizations and in partnership with the Gail O'Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund, supported by The Victoria Foundation. The Gail O'Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund is dedicated to changing human consciousness towards global environmental change by combining science with the creativity of the performing arts. |
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Healthy, happy communities begin from the ground up. Help us inspire generations to protect and preserve the natural world and confront climate change, so families, communities and nature can prosper together. |
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