"The Water Beneath Our Feet - Mapping the Spirit of the False Creek Watershed"

NEW Event Location!

Workshops

"Fishy Props" Crafts Workshop

September 26th - Science World 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Free with Science World admission

September 27 - Salmon Celebration - Vanier Park - 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Lost Streams History Workshops - All are free

June 12th - Car Free Day Commercial Drive 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
June 12th - Kitsilano Farmer's Market 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
August 22 - Trout Lake Farmer's Market - 10:00am - 2:00 pm

Special Event - free

September 23 - Community Sharing Night - Carnegie Community Centre -7:00 PM- 401 Main Street -

"Main and Hastings - Vancouver's Crossrosds since 1886" - talk with noted Vancouver historian - Bruce Macdonald

Lost Streams Walks with noted Vancouver historians - by donation

Sept 12 - Musqueam Creek - Vancouver's last wild salmon stream - walk with Terry Point

Sept 13 - Gibby's Field - part of China Creek's once-vast system - walk with Dan Fass

Sept 19 - Tatlow and Macdonald Creek - from wild native creek to cityscape - walk with Bruce Macdonald

Sept 19 - Lake at the Head Creek - Dunbar's wild coho heritage - walk with Terry Slack

Sept 20 - Vancouver's Last Steelhead Run - walk with Terry Slack

Sept 26 - Musqueam Creek #2- Vancouver's last wild salmon stream - walk with Terry Point

Sept 26 - False Creek Seawall to Senakw - walk with Chief Bill Williams

2009 Participants:

Greenpeace
Wilderness Commitee
Village Vancouver
Forest Ethics
Northshore Wetland Partners
Fraserriverkeepers
Bokashi Composting
False Creek Watershed Society
Georgia Strait Alliance
Wild Salmon Circle
BC Hydro
Canadian Society for Ecological Economics
Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition with Bike Valet Parking
Sweet Grass Grill
Vancouver Maritime Museum
Salmon Celebration Crafts
Angela Brown Storytelling
Red Fox Active Outreach
Shaun Strobel smoked salmon

Schedule

12:00: Start time

12:30: Wes Nahannee - Squamish storytelling

1:00: Joseph Pepe Danza - percussionist

1:30: Happening - drumming, parading, dancing

1:50:  Arlette Alcock - singer, songwriter

2:20:   Kwhlii Bigaygum Nisga'a Traditional Performers

3:00:    Delbert and Victor Guerin, Musqueam /
           reading of Salmon Month proclamation

3:30:  Canoe arrives, canoe landing protocol

4:00: Spakwus Slolem Eagle Song dancers - Squamish

Special thanks to our sponsors and community partners:
Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver Aquarium, Carnegie Centre, Farmer's Markets, Terry Slack, Bruce Macdonald, Terry Point, Chief Bill Williams, Dan Fass, Delbert and Victor Guerin, Arlette Alcock, Stuart McKinnon, Science World, Nisga'a Dancers, Dolly Hopkins, Maude Poirier, Jonathan Macleod, Wes Nahanee, Celia Brauer and the Board of the False Creek Watershed Society

Very special thanks to our funders:

City of Vancouver Celebration Grants, Host a City Happening, Canadian Heritage Branch, BC Hydro, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Science World

Downloads

September is Salmon Month in Vancouver. Download the official Proclamation from City Hall. (pdf, 780 kb)

2008 Salmon Celebration Post Event Publicity (pdf, 15 kb)

Read about The Lost Streams Walks in the news:

The Vancouver Courier - 2008 walks

Read about The Salmon Celebration in the news:

The Vancouver Courier - 2008 event

The Vancouver Courier - 2007 event

L'Express du Pacifique - 2007 event

View Salmon Celebration photos in the "Gallery"

Event Posters: 2004 – 2009

In 2008, the False Creek Watershed Society once again created the 3rd Annual Interspiritual Salmon Blessing after Earth Day, April 27, 2008. We offered discussions by local faith leaders, education on the Lost Streams of Vancouver and First Nations participation. And most important, we invited the community to come down to the water's edge to offer a blessing to the millions of juvenile salmon who are starting their epic ocean journey.

In 2005, there was a request put out by Alexandra Morton, a prominent biologist who works on the West Coast of Vancouver Island and is very concerned about the serious effects of fish farming on wild salmon. She asked that we offer our concern for the fate of our salmon by heading down to a local waterway and gathering with community members to offer blessings to these very young creatures as they head out to their life at sea.

For 2006, two organizations – the False Creek Watershed Society, and the Sierra Club of Canada BC Chapter, joined together to expand on this idea.

News flash!!!!BEST OF VANCOUVER!!! Georgia Straight votes us "Best Salmon Celebration That Does Not Involve Dinner!

Read the full 2008 Interspiritual Blessing Post Event Publicity (pdf, 33 kb)

Read about The Interspiritual Blessing in the News:   Vancouver Province - 2007

Vancouver Sun -2007

View Interspiritual Blessing photos in the "Gallery"