[BCFSN] The Feast Worldwide, Vancouver (Oct 18)

[Crystal Lee]

Hi All,
Please distribute the attached poster far and wide! Hope to see you there...

Dawn

Dawn Morrison,

Research Associate, Indigenous Community Engagement
Southwest BC Bioregional Food Systems Design and Plan
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Office: 604.599.2569
Email: dawn.morrison at kpu.ca
Website: http://www.kpu.ca/isfs


Indigenous Food Systems Network
C/O 555 East 55th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C, V5X 1N6
Mobile: 778.879.5106
Email: dmo6842 at gmail.com
Website: www.indigenousfoodsystems.org






On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Wild Salmon Convergence <
wildsalmonconvergence at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> Below are links to scaled, printable images in multiple sizes, as well as
> the online event invite. More event info follows.
>
> Please forward this email and/or the facebook event to key people in your
> networks.
>
> Attendees are encouraged to talk Salmon, post info, and sort out ride
> shares on the facebook event page. If you or people you know would be
> interested in chipping in on a van or bus rental from Vancouver, please let
> us know by replying to this address and we'll see if this is doable. Any
> technical questions concerning gear and/or setup or queries about
> camping and the location may be directed to this address as well.
>
> All other inquiries, please contact Dawn at dmo6842 at gmail.com or by
> phone, 778.879.5106, or Janice at 250.679.3052
> Thank you and hope to see you in a couple weeks
>
>
> Facebook Invite: http://is.gd/WildSalmonConvergence
>
> Print out the poster: http://is.gd/PrintSalmonPosters
> (either 8.5x11 or 11x17 poster or 4x5 cards)
>
> The Wild Salmon Convergence is parallel to the Salute to the Sockeye event
> that is being organized by the Adams River Salmon Society at Roderick Haig
> Brown Park
>
> The purpose of the event is to bring people of all cultures together to
> appreciate the beauty and grandeur of the Sockeye Salmon run in the Adams
> River, and build capacity of various Wild Salmon and Water networks and
> coalitions to link their campaigns, communication strategies, and organized
> policy/advocacy efforts to food, farming and communities impacted by
> mining.
>
> In addition to observing cultural and spiritual protocols of the Secwepemc
> in our longstanding relationship to the Salmon and the Water, we will be
> hosting some serious action oriented discussion groups that will help us
> all respond to the issues and concerns in strength and unity across
> cultures and geographical distances. We feel that now more than ever, our
> Water, Salmon and livelihoods are being threatened and are calling on all
> individuals, networks and coalitions to organize, organize, organize...
>
> Please distribute the attached poster invite far and wide to your friends,
> families and co-workers to come honour and witness one of the worlds
> largest Sockeye Salmon spawning events in the world!
> The Wild Salmon need our help more than ever, and one way to do that is to
> appreciate their beauty, strength and resilience in their journey home to
> play out their birth and death in the Adams River - a river system with
> some of the oldest geology in BC, and rich in culture and heritage to the
> Secwepemc and all people who inhabit the region.
>
> *--*Dawn Morrison
>
> Research Associate, Indigenous Community Engagement
> Southwest BC Bioregional Food Systems Design and Plan
> Kwantlen Polytechnic University
> Office: 604.599.2569
> Email: dawn.morrison at kpu.ca
> <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/nhucmgxuaf2c/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=dawn.morrison@kpu.ca>
> Website: http://www.kpu.ca/isfs
> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpu.ca%2Fisfs&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEUQm_qzuSakanCwuE2k3K4YiTZyA>
>
>
> Indigenous Food Systems Network
> C/O 555 East 55th Avenue
> Vancouver, B.C, V5X 1N6
> Mobile: 778.879.5106
> Email: dmo6842 at gmail.com
> <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/nhucmgxuaf2c/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=dmo6842@gmail.com>
> Website: www.indigenousfoodsystems.org
> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indigenousfoodsystems.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHlncE8t1TW2oICrPZE3whyVTFVug>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://bcfsn.org/pipermail/food_bcfsn.org/attachments/20140924/f02243c9/attachment-0003.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Wild Salmon Convergence 8.5x11.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 21750992 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://bcfsn.org/pipermail/food_bcfsn.org/attachments/20140924/f02243c9/attachment-0001.pdf>