The False Creek Watershed Society acknowledges the hospitality of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil'waututh First Nations, on whose ancestral and unceded territory the watershed is located.
The purposes of the False Creek Watershed Society are to provide education on: History - Natural and Human Education - Place Based Sustainability - for Urban Centres History- Local / First Nations Read our full Mission Statement Artwork: Salmon icon and FCWS logo by Celia Brauer 
Water Wisdom − Water Words: Ceremony and Sharing by the waters of False Creek BC Rivers Day event with Candace Campo and the False Creek Watershed Society, September 27 2020 Time: 1:00 - 3:15 PM - made up of 3 fourty hour sessions Place: Performance Works, grassy area east side 1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island Coast Salish Lands Join us for one of three - 40 minutes sessions in which 10 people will formally register to participate. For a total of 30 people over 2 hours. Please register one at a time and make sure you are free to come for your ticket. These are small groups and so each person is important to make up the total of 10. Please register below. Leaders: The event will be led by Candace Campo from the Sechelt First Nation. Candace lives with her family on the Squamish Reserve in North Vancouver and operates a business locally called Talaysay Tours. They teach Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Also present will be staff and board members of the False Creek Watershed Society. Location: The location will be outside - on the east side of the Performance Works building on Granville Island, 1218 Cartwright Street.There are wooden steps going up a small hill where we can share our knowledge and stories. Please dress for the weather. If it is raining, bring something to sit on that will stay relatively dry and an umbrella and/or rain protective clothing. Bring your own water carrier (with water in it) if you wish to pour water back into False Creek in ceremony. And snacks to eat plus water to drink if you wish. We will all distance appropriately. There is plenty of room to spread out on benches. Agenda: Candace Campo will share her water wisdom with us all. Then we will invite participants to share their thoughts and stories of water. We will then go to the water's edge and pour out our water and offer blessings. The cost will be $15.00 which contribute to an honorarium. Each participant will receive a free copy of the Strathchona Art and Nature Map. Register here Salmon and Buildings 6 - Artwork by Celia Brauer Salmon Dreams - a walk through memory in the Riley Park /Little Mountain Landscape Please join us for our 3rd annual 'Connecting to Place' gathering in Riley Park. Our exploration will nurture a connection with the visible and hidden waterways in the Riley Park/Little Mountain Neighbourhood. The guides are Celia Brauer, co-founder and staff of the False Creek Watershed Society and Amy Kiara Ruth, a somatic movement educator. We will continue afterwards with a gathering filled with community connection, scrumptious snacks and hot beverages! Saturday, February 15, 2020 1-3 pm at Riley Park Community Garden 30th Ave. & Ontario St. False Creek Watershed Vancouver, BC We acknowledge that we gather and garden on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh First Nations. Salmon and Buildings 2 - Artwork by Celia Brauer Dragon Walk! reflect on home, place, belonging, indigeneity August 9 - September 22, 2019 STENCIL: Monday, August 9 3:00 - 5:00 pm Hillcrest Community Centre lobby WALK: Sunday, August 25 3:00 - 5:00 pm begins at the Generative Nest (GN) 4361 Cambie - back alley STORY- Thursday, September 5 7:30 - 9:00 TELLING: Generative Nest - 4361 Cambie STENCIL: Saturday, Sept 7 12:30 - 2:30 pm Riley Park & Garden / Mad Hatter Tea Party 33rd and Ontario WALK: Tuesday, September 10 6;30 - 8:30 pm begins at the Generative Nest 4361 Cambie - back alley Sunday September 22nd: PARADE and DANCE 1:30 - 3:30 pm gather at the Generative Nest 4361 Cambie - back alley walk to NW corner of Queen Elizabeth Park more information on FACEBOOK/ Generative Nest and this space! Thanks to the generous support of : The City of Vancouver, False Creek Watershed Society Vancouver Foundation - Neighbourhood Small Grants, Little Mountain Neighbourhood House Water Dances at Riley Park Community Garden & FCWS AGM - May 26 We invite you to attend a special event: "Moving Elemental: water walk / water movement" with Board Member Amy Kiara Ruth as our guide Date: Sunday May 26, 2019 Time: 1:30 - 2:30 PM Place: Riley Park Garden - E 30th Ave. & Ontario St. Unceded Coast Salish Territories We will gather and move outside in the park - rain or shine. Please wear / bring appropriate clothing for your comfort The FCWS AGM will take place afterwards at Riley Park Fieldhouse. We will be discussing last year's activities and electing our Board. Date: Sunday May 26, 2019 Time: 2:30 - 3:30 PM Place: Riley Park Fieldhouse - SE corner of the Park - door on east side. Membership Please join us! We encourage you to join our non-profit society. This will enable us to continue our work to promote watershed awareness and environmental sustainability. We are the only watershed group in Vancouver specifically focused on these goals - in a city surrounded by fresh water, sea water and graced by high rainfall! Click the button below... 
Nature in Strathcona - Mapping Our Watershed Through Art
The Nature in Strathcona Map is now available. Send us an email for a copy. Also find out about the project here. 
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Hemlock , south shore - 1886/ looking N over False Creek. The log's diameter is estimated at three metres.
-City of Vancouver Archives Dist. P35 N24 
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