Hullaballoo is an amazing 3-day event that happens every year on unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver) and brings together 16 high school poetry teams from across the lower province to compete and celebrate youth poetry. I've been so fortunate for many many years to come in,...
I was so fortunate While passing through Vancouver to be contacted by my good friend and powerhouse indigenous fashion hero Joleen Mitton. She was organizing a private show featuring the new clothing line by designer Ellena Neel @ellenaneel. Ellena's beautiful and diverse clothing line was complemented...
The Haida Gwaii Youth Assembly is an amazing event that happens every year where settler and Haida youth from across Haida Gwaii come together to learn about the governance of the Haida Nation, and complete in a series of challenges to grow, laugh, and build...
Tonight, we held an evening of solidarity to support those that are peacefully occupying fish farms on the south coast of BC. We gathered in the home of Severn Suzuki and then joined up with a local Haida dance group at the Haida Heritage Centre to...
At the end of August, the bi-annual Gathering Our Nations suicide prevention cultural camp took place again at the Hiellen Longhouse campground on the North end of Haida Gwaii; an absolutely amazing weekend full of connections, food, and friendships that will last a lifetime. I was...
Earlier this week I was contacted by filmmaker Helen Haig-Brown to come on board to help shoot a series of interviews with Haida carvers Jaalen Edenshaw and Guujaaw as they talk about the significance of Haida poles. The project was commissioned by the Royal Museum of...
Erica Ryan-Gagne is a brilliant and strong Haida entrepreneur, mother, and basketball coach in Skidegate, BC. Another big part of Erica is her activism work and recent travels to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. In November Erica contacted me...