Inspiring Solutions & Summer Celebrations |
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The Re-Connect Festival, presented by Creatively United and Climate and the Arts, continues with these special upcoming events: |
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Join sopranos Caleigh Aalders and Jennifer Turner and poet Eli Mushumanski for a free, drop-in, interactive music and poetry event. Participants will be invited to walk the Irving Park Labyrinth as a contemplative exercise while encountering song and spoken poetry in order to work through experiences of personal and collective ecological grief. The acoustic environment will involve a selection of traditional folk songs and art songs with cello, harp, and two voices, as well as poems written and read by Victoria’s 2022 youth poet laureate, Eli Mushumanski. This project uses art to respond to the complex impacts of climate change on our natural world and societies. With many community members already conscious of the challenges we face in a climate-changed world, this event creates a contemplative space for participants to visualize a climate-changed future. Such visualization involves reflecting on transformation in our personal and societal relationships with nature, while also working through the feelings that arise from a rapidly changing natural world. Irvine Park is located at 250 Menzies Street at the corner of Michigan Street in James Bay. |
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Fingers That Fly! - Piano Recital Saturday, July 8, 4 pm PST, Christ Church Cathedral, 930 Burdett Ave |
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Pianist Sarah Hagen brings a cheerful program of piano works inspired by birds and birdsong to Victoria’s Christ Church Cathedral. From Vancouver Island, Sarah enjoys a rich and diverse touring life across Canada and internationally as both soloist and humorist. This promises to be an afternoon of joyous music by Schumann, Messiaen, and Liszt, among others, and insightful commentary peppered with a dash of humour. |
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Housing That Heals the Future |
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Solutions exist to resolve many of the most pressing issues of our times, including the need for healthy, happy communities that include affordable housing. The video above shows a Before and After of what is possible and is a very enticing view for what communities can become. A real life example of a Living Forest Community exists on Cortes Island, two ferry rides away from Vancouver Island on the north end of the island near Campbell River. Creatively United explored a wide range of projects that are charting the future towards healthier, happier communities in nine inspiring interviews in this Housing That Heals the Future video that includes: Forest communities that save forests Zero waste buildings and harmless homes Creating cohousing as sustainable living Healthy energy & healthy homes Overcoming barriers to Installing EV charging stations in stratas Ways housing can address climate change How to reduce building costs and landfill expansion New options for farm communities Disruptive new technologies that break down barriers to net zero carbon living
Presenters include: Order of Canada award-winning singer/songwriter, Ann Mortifee, plus Jack Anderson, Helen Boyd, Jim Bronson & Sandi Goldie, Jim Connelly, Arno Keinonen, Doug Makaroff, and Roy Yeske. Here is a shareable YouTube link to the full webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxrFvcox3TI |
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These community events 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. |
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Voices in Nature Friday, June 23, 5-7 pm + Saturday, June 24, 11 am-1 pm Sunday, June 25, 11 am-1 pm + Monday, June 26, 5-7 pm
Saxe Point Park, Esquimalt |
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Pacific Opera presents a musical stroll through Saxe Point Park in Esquimalt. Choose your own adventure or join a hosted walk every 15 minutes to see all the artists and installations. This year's artists and partners include: Pacific Opera Victoria's Civic Engagement Artist Residency, Nicole Mandryk, the Yarrow Collective, Karen White, Zoe Dickinson, Library volunteers, Bruce Parisian Library, and the Victoria Native Friendship Centre. Learn more here |
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Scrappy Last Saturdays - Free Craft Workshop Saturday, June 24, 10 am PST SUPPLY Victoria Creative Reuse Centre, 750 Fairfield Rd |
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Families with school-aged children (ages 7-12) are invited for a morning of upcycle crafting with different instructors and crafts with repurposed supplies on the last Saturday of each month, from 10-11 am, at SUPPLY’s Creative Reuse Centre at 750 Fairfield Rd. Victoria. Register here for free |
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Eileen Curteis Book Launch & Signing Sunday, June 25, 1-3:30 pm PST St. Ann's Academy Chapel, 835 Humboldt St. |
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Books will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served after the reading. |
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Future Oceans Canada Day Saturday, July 1, 5 pm PST Victoria International Marina, 1 Cooperage Place |
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Victoria International Marina presents the exhibition and ballet performance, Tides are Changing, on July 1st, 2023. This exciting Canada Day event will feature sustainably made wearable art pieces that contrast ocean plastic and mixed materials with precious natural materials, raising awareness about sustainability and ocean conservation. The exhibition will also showcase a breathtaking ballet performance by the Nanaimo Contemporary Ballet, plus works from fashion designers featured in the Future Oceans International runway. Entry to the exhibition is free. Get tickets for the ballet here |
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The Mother Earth Ambassador Program is an experiential outdoor leadership program for girls aged 9 to 12. It has been designed to empower girls with the understanding of the inherent power and beauty of the forest, and with the many mental, physical and spiritual benefits of being in nature. The program will take place outside of classroom time over 8 Saturdays (September 23 & 30, October 14, 21 & 28, November 4, 11 & 18), from 10 am to 4:30 pm. Learn more here |
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We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history. During the 2020s, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors that underpin the global economy, and with them every major industry in the world today. In information, energy, food, transportation, and materials, costs will fall by a 10x or more, while production processes an order of magnitude more efficient will use 90% fewer natural resources with 10x-100x less waste. The knock-on effects for society will be as profound as the extraordinary possibilities that emerge. For the first time in history, we could overcome poverty easily. Access to all our basic needs could become a fundamental human right. But this is just one future outcome. The alternative could see our civilization collapse into a new dark age. Which path we take depends on the choices we make, starting today. The stakes could not be higher. |
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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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