Whale in the Door

A Community Unites to Protect BC's Howe Sound

Month: July 2018

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Fold for the Orcas at Vancouver Public Library

Whale in the Door" Fold for the Orcas

Looking forward to this very special event at the Vancouver Public Library from 2-4 pm on August 11 at the downtown library branch. My friend, Rebecca Duncan, dynamic Squamish Nation storyteller, will be telling the Whale in the Door story. There will be whale puppets and whale songs, poets reading poems about the Pacific, and I will be reading from Whale in the Door and singing songs about Howe Sound/ […]

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National Indigenous Peoples Day on Bowen Island

Bowen celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day

For the very first time, we celebrated this important day on Bowen Island. The weather, the performers, the smiling faces all added up to an evening to remember, outdoors in front of the library. (All photos by Len Gilday) Rebecca Ducan, whose ancestral Squamish name is Tsitsayxemaat, enthralled everyone with the creation story of Raven stealing the Sun from Seagull. And she sent a shiver through the youngsters with her […]

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