Call to Participate and Support Wild Salmon Caravan

Celebrate the Spirit of Wild Salmon through the arts and culture!

Wild Salmon have offered up themselves as a most precious gift to BC. On their migration path to and from the vast upper reaches of the mighty Fraser River, they feed the bears, the forest, the winged ones and us.

The impacts of industrial activities including: forestry, bursting tailings mining, infected fish farms, oil/gas extraction, pipelines, dams and other threats, all are stressing our relationship to the Sacred Wild Salmon.

This is a call for participation and support for the Save Wild Salmon Caravan that will converge in various points along the journey, and ask that you and your community or organization provide financial or logistical support in one or more of the following ways.

Sunday, May 10: 11:30 am Start at Prince George (Fort George Park), leaving at 1:30 pm to Chief Will-YUm Pow Wow, 5 mins soth of Williams Lake. Dinner and overnight camping

Monday, May 11: 11:00 am Leave Williams Lake (T'exelc), go along Highway 99 to Lillooet, arriving at 3:00 pm

Tuesday May 12: 9:00 am Leave Lillooet arrive in Lytton travel to Yale arriving at 5:00pm, dinner with Chiwathil First Nation

Wednesday May 13: 9:00 am Tarvel to Chilliwack, rally at 10:30 am with Skwah First Nation, trvale past Hazardous Waste site, then on to Kwantlen

Thursday, May 14: 9:30 am travel to Vancouver, meet at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 10:30 am and March to Imperial Metals Offices, then onto English Bay

• Financial support and fundraising for the cost of travel, equipment, food, promotional materials, etc…
• Creating and contributing artistic expressions of the spirit of wild salmon. i.e. singing, drumming, storytelling, feasts, placards, banners & flags, etc..
• Plan tie in rallies & ceremonies - mobilize your community to join in the convergence as it passes through your region
• Host community feasts and public speakers along the route of the caravan
• Printing and/or distributing promotional materials

Regional coordinators are needed and bus/van coordination is of highest priority. A detailed program and poster will be posted soon. Please the relevant contact person listed below for more information on ways you can become participate or support.

May the Spirit of Wild Salmon be with You,

For more information contact:

Eddie Gardener – Cultural Protocols & Media Relations singingbear@telus.net , 604.792.0867
Dawn Morrison – Funding & Media Relations dmo6842@gmail.com , 778.879.5106
Natalie Clark – Child and Youth Engagement Natalie.clark@ubc.ca , 250.377.1736
Randi-Lee Taylor – Arts, Culture simplybarefootgs@gmail.com , 604.500.5390
Douglas Gook - Endorsements gookmirth60@gmail.com , 604.682.1109