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Register for the Screening of Incandescence on May 2, 2025, at 7 pm.

Every summer, wildfires increasingly ravage places around the globe, darkening the skies with thick smoke and reducing communities to little more than ash and debris.

Award-winning directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper weave together immersive on-the-ground footage with first-person accounts from Indigenous Elders, first responders, and ordinary people forced to react to a rapidly evolving ecosystem in the feature documentary Incandescence.

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From Decolonial Solidarity and Dogwood:

On Wednesday, May 28th 2025 the Gitanyow will go before the BC supreme court to argue their case for Title —standing up for their lands, laws, and the generations to come. The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs are together claiming title to the 6,200 square kilometres of the Gitanyow Lax’yip, located in the Nass and Skeena Watersheds (Kitwanga and Kispiox Rivers). When the Canada negotiated the Nisga'a Final Agreement with the Nisga'a Nation they did not consult the Gitanyow, despite their overlapping territorial claims.  Gitanyow Territory is now under threat from the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline (PRGT). Their title claim goes hand in hand with their struggle to protect their territories from destructive development and safeguard salmon in the Nass, Cranberry and Kiteen river.

The Gitanyow are calling on their allies to march with them from Robson Square to the steps of the BC Supreme Courthouse. If you are in Vancouver on the morning of May 5th, please join the Gitanyow and their allies. You can also support by sharing this call with any and everyone!

Location: Meet between Robson Square Ice Rink and Vancouver Art Gallery. Commence march up the Hornby sidewalk. Arrive at the front steps of BC Supreme Court, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver, BC

Time: 8:00am gather - 8:45am start the march - 9:15am arrive front steps of BC Supreme Court, 800 Smithe Street

After our regular Saturday service on June 21, there will an annual big bash held right afterwards.  Stay tuned for more details!

Join Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust at their Interfaith Water Ceremony planned for Sunday, 
May 25 at Whey-ah-Wichen / Cates Park.