Speakers

Journalist Geoff Dembicki speaks at Salt Spring Forum on Are We Screwed? A New Generation Fighting Climate Change. Gulf Islands Secondary School. 10 a.m. There are currently more than 1.8 billion people between the ages of 10 and 24, which is the largest young generation in history. This is also the generation most affected by […]

Event at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 7:30 p.m. In 2017 the B.C. NDP government committed to adopting and implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). This agreement stresses self-determination for Indigenous peoples to protect their languages, cultures, laws and economies. In British Columbia land settlements and resource allocation […]

Elders and knowledge keepers from local First Nations speak on their people’s continuous presence and connection to the Gulf Islands. Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

A presentation and update on the ongoing project at Burgoyne Bay with Joe Akerman. Youth camps, SD #64 cultural days, workshops, new signage, big canoe carving and social enterprise. A presentation and update on the ongoing project at Burgoyne Bay with Joe Akerman.

Permaculture educator Kenton Zerbin is giving a crash course on building and living in the small homes, as well as touching on legal issues and rules of building tiny homes. Salt Spring Public Library. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

An eye-witness account, brief history and future of the battle against open net-pen Atlantic fish farms in Kwakwaka'wakw territory, with Joe Akerman and others. Salt Spring Public Library. 7:30 p.m.

South Salt Spring Seniors host talk by Bob Mackie. Public welcome. OAP Anderson Room at Fulford Hall. 2:30 p.m.

The Salt Spring Trail and Nature Club presents talk with Janie Wray, Cetacea Lab researcher, about her work with lab that specializes in listening to hydrophone recordings of whale activity on the northern coast. Lions Hall. 7 to 9 p.m.

Former senior US defence intelligence official joins Forum for conversation "Are We Headed Toward a Nuclear War?" ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m.