It is okay to have levels of stress right now that you don't have the skills to navigate. I think many of us are in that boat... Every time I think I've leveled up my regulation skills, another pressure is added... On Wednesday, the Lil'wat Nation, Ts'zil Learning Centre and Capilano University are offering a … Continue reading Stressed? All are welcome to a free workshop at Ts’zil Learning Centre, via Zoom, Wednesday December 8, 6:30pm

Artists from North Vancouver to Pemberton have been selected to represent their local arts councils and take trash collected by volunteer divers and turn it into treasured art pieces. On December 11, at the Cheakamus Centre in Squamish, Trash to Treasure: Artist Materials Unveiling will put the discarded items recovered by Diving In teams on … Continue reading What lurks on the bottom of the lake? And can you make art from it?

Climate Emergency - An Action Guide for Citizens will be an opportunity for climate-concerned citizens to hear Dr. Mark Jaccard speak on how they can overcome myths that hinder them from acting in time to prevent extreme climate impacts. Tickets for the live inperson event at the Rainbow Theatre are available at https://whistlerinstitute.com/course/gp-mark-jaccard/?mc_cid=b347353786&mc_eid=017aa86622 or you can … Continue reading Come together, to solve the Climate Emergency – presentation by Dr Mark Jaccard from the Whistler Institute, Thursday December 9, 6- 7:30

The Third Annual Community Christmas Tree is up at the downtown community Barn in Pemberton. And, yes, you can add your own non-breakable decoration. And over at the Pemberton and District Public Library, join a decoration-making workshop, co-presented by the Pemberton Multicultural Society, between 10 and 2:30.

Lil'wat Nation is hosting a Facebook Live on Thursday, December 9, between 7pm and 8pm, to discus Flooding and the Lillooet River. The Nation is facing an increasing risk of flooding from the Lillooet River due to factors ranging from climate change to the 2010 Meager Slide. Join for an informative discussion on what can … Continue reading Flooding and the Lillooet River: Lil’wat Nation hosts Virtual Community Forum, Thursday December 9, 7pm

Upcoming, on Monday, December 2 from 6-8pm is an online workshop "How to Talk to Children about Race/Racism", offered by the Whistler Multicultural Society and Resilience BC Whistler. The workshop is facilitated by Angela Ma Brown who is an Education Consultant in the areas of Anti-racism and Anti-oppression education, Diversity-awareness and Social Justice in Metro … Continue reading How to talk to Children about Race/Racism, FREE online workshop 6-8pm Monday

On March 14, 2020, the Boomerang Bags box was sealed over. Reusable bags, along with their owners, went into retreat. Today, sighted at the Pemberton Valley Grocery store, a fresh supply of reusable bags, free for you to grab, so you don't need a plastic one. What I love about the boomerang is that it's … Continue reading Boomerang Bags are back!

A little girl, four years old, says she knows what drawing is: "You just think something and then run a line around your think." Decomplicate, friends. Honour your thoughts. And turn them into spellsongs and prayers and drawings, all the lines wrapping around the moments in our heads. What we speak of and write down … Continue reading Think it, draw it

It's BC Buy Local Week from November 29-December 5. You know what to do. Pop your head inside the door of a local establishment and ask them what's new. Enlist their help - "I want to do something nice for my mother-in-law this winter." Go and enjoy the local Christmas craft fairs, and as part … Continue reading Keep your love, and your money, close to home

How might we place culture at the centre of regeneration? Solvable New Works Regeneration is a series of discussions aimed at tackling some of the hard questions of now: how do we create a culture of regeneration (as distinct from the current culture of extraction, destruction and reaction.) Their next conversation, hosted on Zoom, brings together … Continue reading How do we place culture at the centre of regeneration? Free talk, December 2