First Nations Healing Through Smudging: Cleansing Mind, Body & Spirit Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre is honoured to host Clara John of Lil’wat Nation in leading an informative session about First Nations healing and cleansing processes. Free for all to attend, participants are encouraged to come in with open minds in order to receive emotional or … Continue reading Lil’watul elder Clara John to share smudging and healing wisdom at SLCC, March 27

Life goals: grow a forest garden. Who's with me?   Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestrymimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based Martin Crawford is one … Continue reading Diversity is resilience

Tanina Williams has been teaching and sharing the Lil'wat culture with students throughout the Sea to Sky Corridor - from Pemberton to Whistler - for years. She was instrumental in creating the Blanket Ceremony at Signal Hill in 2016. A participant in the  Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Líl̓wat Stl’atl ímc Business Start-up Program (SLSBSP) program, Tanina's business idea, to offer … Continue reading Tanina Williams offers wellness workshop tomorrow at SLCC, 11am – 3pm, as fundraiser

The US celebrates Poetry Month in April, and the poster a student designed for this year was so spectacular I had to share it. Wrong month, wrong country... but is there such a thing, as a wrong time to incite people towards poetry...?!?

Calling all vendors and musicians! The Pemberton Farmers Market is now accepting applications for the 2019 Market Season! Season runs from June 7th to October 25th, Fridays, 3-6:30pm. Application deadline is March 31st. All application forms are available on our website: http://www.pembertonfarmersmarket com. If you have any questions, email info@pembertonfarmersmarket.com And PS It's just been … Continue reading Apply before March 31 to play or vend at the 2019 Pemberton Farmers Market

In the newspaper business, the "social pages" of people out at events, is always one of the most viewed sections. There's something fun about scouting images for people you know. Now, Lil'wat Nation has its own version - thanks to a new Facebook page set up and administered by the Lilwat7ul Culture Centre, and featuring … Continue reading Lil’wat7ul Culture Centre debuts a new Facebook page for showcasing events and photos

My friend shared this story recently, of female librarians delivering books on horseback through the 1930s throughout isolated mountain communities. I think the only thing that could make the Pop Up library more rad would be if the staff rode there on horseback. Which, honestly, wouldn't surprise me. Everyone is welcome! Pop by. Staff will … Continue reading Got books, will travel. Pop Up Library will be at Ts’zil Learning Centre, Monday March 11, 1-3pm

Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. So says Wikipedia, who don't realize how far away summer feels right now, and how meagre this new addition of sunlight seems. And yet, we still spring forward those clocks, before bedtime … Continue reading Spring forward! Daylight savings time commences Sunday at 3am. So spring your clocks forward one hour tonight!

I say this fiercely: if you are feeling utterly discombobulated by new (or otherwise) parenthood, there is nothing wrong with you. The challenge is to maintain balance, when the earth keeps shifting. What a fantastic phrase. How great to see it deployed, by the special guest at Monday's Parent-infant Drop in session at the Library. … Continue reading Parent Infant Drop In explores how to maintain balance (when the earth keeps shifting). Indeed.