[BCFSN] Wild Salmon Caravan - Media Release and Launch of Website

[Dawn Morrison]

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*A celebration of the spirit of wild salmon!*

*Media Release – Launch of Wild Salmon Caravan Website*

The Wild Salmon Caravan is a collaborative, grassroots project led by the
BC Food Systems Network, Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Director, Dawn Morrison (Secwepemc), and Eddie Gardner (Sto'lo). The
intention of the Wild Salmon Caravan is to nurture the creative energy that
wild salmon have inspired through the ages, and affirm inter-tribal
relationships that are the foundation of Indigenous trade and fisheries
knowledge systems adapted over thousands of years. The collaboration and
creative energy will serve to transform the darkness surrounding the
industrial storm that is endangering wild salmon. Ancient ceremonies and
songs of Indigenous peoples, as well as engaging speakers, and creative
expressions of music, storytelling, and visual and performing arts, will
call the wild salmon home to the rivers, lakes, and streams of the Fraser
Basin and Salish Sea corridor where they play out their lives in birth and
death.

In a similar spirit as the world renowned Mardi Gras festival in New
Orleans, we invite artists, coalitions, food systems networks, individuals,
and communities from all ages, creeds and cultures, to come out in
colourful and creative expressions of our love for wild salmon at one or
more of the community events we are planning. The caravan will journey from
the headwaters of the Fraser River at Mount Robson in the Rocky Mountains,
to the Salish Seas at Vancouver during the week of June 6 – 11, 2016.

We are excited to share our newly launched Wild Salmon Caravan website
where you can find more detailed information about caravan events and ways
you can participate in arts build workshops, parades, community ceremonies
and festivities, caravan travel, planning, volunteering, etc...
*https://wildsalmoncaravan.wordpress.com/working-group/
<https://wildsalmoncaravan.wordpress.com/working-group/>* .


Follow us on Twitter: #WildSalmonCaravan2016

Visit us on Facebook:
*https://www.facebook.com/Wild-Salmon-Caravan-1127741203923144/
<https://www.facebook.com/Wild-Salmon-Caravan-1127741203923144/>*

Donate to our crowdfunding campaign: *https://crowdgift.ca/Wild-Salmon-Caravan
<https://crowdgift.ca/Wild-Salmon-Caravan>*

OR

Send a cheque or money order to

Wild Salmon Caravan

c/o 555 East 55th Avenue

Vancouver, BC, V5X 1N6


*For more information contact: *Dawn Morrison at *dmo6842 at gmail.com
<dmo6842 at gmail.com>* , or Eddie Gardner at *singingbear at telus.net
<singingbear at telus.net>*


Dawn Morrison,

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