Correction: It has been brought to our attention that the Fossil Fuel event on September 15th in our previous newsletter is not happening. Sorry for any inconvenience. Here are a few of the many events that can also be found on Creatively United's free Event Calendar, your source for finding a wide variety of both online and in-person events of interest to the Creatively United community. Be sure to also visit the Community Blog where new submissions are always welcome, and the Pair Up Directory, featuring more than 270 non-profit organizations. |
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In Sight Festival is a showcase of local performing and visual artists, featuring dance, music, storytelling, children's art activities and special cultural performances.
Learn more here |
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Repair Café West Shore 11 am-3 pm, Sunday, Sept. 15th, Juan de Fuca Recreation Center, 1767 Island Hwy. |
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What do you do with a broken toaster? Or a bike wheel that’s out of alignment... and what about a sweater full of moth holes? Toss it? No way! Bring them to the Repair Café, where a volunteer repair team can assess and help get your item repaired. Tools and materials will also be on hand to try fixing some things yourself! Got the tools and some time? Repair Café ReImagine West Shore can use more handy volunteers. |
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Voices in My Body is an innovative, in situ, and bilingual (French and English) outdoor dance and theater performance, combining live performance with linked audience headphones ("silent disco” technology) to a unique window into the theatre of our inner lives. Get tickets here |
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Eyes of the Beast is about ordinary people surviving these extraordinary times. Adapted from the award-winning journalism of UVic’s Climate Disaster Project, this documentary theatre production pulls from hundreds of testimonies of people across Canada who have lived through climate change together. A fishing guide who took his boat into flooded farmland to rescue an alligator. An actor rushed to the hospital for heat stroke after performing in front of the legislature. A mother figuring out how to prepare her child for the future after fire flattened their town. Climate disaster is not far away, not happening to someone else. It is here now, happening to us. Eyes of the Beast shows how we still have each other during those disasters, creating community amidst catastrophe. Every performance is followed by a facilitated talkback giving audiences an opportunity to process the stories they’ve just heard and share their own experiences of climate disasters. Learn more here |
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Organized by a Grade 12 student at St. Michaels University School who is passionate about protecting our environment and the wildlife that lives within it. "Victoria has been quiet on the climate protest front since COVID, but it is time to build momentum for our planet again. This is the second climate protest I'm organizing." |
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Fall Fairfield Festival Noon-4 pm, Sunday, Sept. 22nd, Robert Porter Park, 1350 Fairfield Road |
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Get crafty, taste and vote for your favourite pie recipes, shop 30+ local food and craft vendors, snuggle rescued furry friends with the Greater Victoria Animal Crusaders, vote for the biggest vegetable at the Harvest Contest, chat with someone you don’t know with Meet A Stranger Project, enter a draw to win Afternoon Tea at Abkhazi Gardens, and more! |
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Seniors for Climate, a coalition of six national advocacy groups, has requested that Canadian seniors join them in a National Day of Action on Canada’s National Seniors Day on October 1st. We are a grassroots group of seniors from the Greater Victoria region (S4CVictoria) responding to this request by organizing a “happening” at the BC Legislature. This all-ages event will have speakers and information booths from various local environmental groups, as well as music and art. We are calling for emergency action at all levels of government and an energy transition away from fossil fuels and towards a carbon free sustainable economy with an end to subsidies to fossil fuel industries. |
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Seven local community and non-profit groups have joined forces to organize an all-candidates debate for the new provincial Esquimalt-Colwood riding (including Vic West and View Royal) from 7-9 pm Wednesday, October 2, at Esquimalt United Church, 500 Admirals Rd. (corner of Lyall and Admirals) This free, non-partisan event will be focused on Climate, Conservation and Community and be held live, plus live-streamed and recorded and shared with those who register here. Co-sponsored by Citizens Environmental Network in Colwood (CENiC), Climate and the Arts, Creatively United for the Planet Society, Esquimalt Climate Organizers (ECO), Esquimalt United Church Justice Team, Gorge Waterway Action Society and the South Island Climate Action Network (SICAN). |
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Thank you to everyone who came out in support of the Community Trees Matter Network rally this past Saturday in Centennial Square. A large gathering assembled to learn about the fate of the sequoia and other trees slated to be cut for a redesign project approved to make the square "a better version of itself" and "a more workable public space." According to City Hall officials, the arborist's report will be made available for public review this week providing the details as to why the Sequoia can not be saved as part of the new design. Visit the Community Trees Matter Network page for updates. |
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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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