Whale in the Door

A Community Unites to Protect BC's Howe Sound

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We Wrote We Folded We Sang for the Orcas

Folding for the Orcas

On August 11, the Alice McKay Room at the Vancouver Public Library was vibrant with young and old coming together to ask for more protection for the Southern Resident Orcas. Their letters to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans were folded into origami Orcas while poets Miranda Pearson, Barbara Pelman, and Marlene Grand Maitre read from the poetry anthlogy, Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, also published by Caitlin Press. Latash […]

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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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