Celebrate the spirit of wild salmon through the arts and culture in a way that will nurture the creative energy that wild salmon have inspired through the ages. The WSC also intends to affirm inter-tribal relationships that are the foundation of traditional trade and fisheries governance knowledge systems. The collaboration and creative energy will serve to educate, inform, and transform the darkness surrounding the industrial storm that is endangering wild salmon. Ancient ceremonies and songs of Indigenous peoples, as well as creative expressions of visual and performing arts, music, storytelling, and guest speakers will call the wild salmon home to the rivers and streams where they play out their lives in birth and death.

Building capacity of coalitions and campaigns that link Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, artists, food systems networks, individuals, organizations, and communities who are working to protect, conserve and restore wild salmon and it’s habitat in the Fraser Basin and Salish Seas corridor.

October 7th – 12th, from Vancouver to Adams River.
Here are our travel dates so far.

This year, the Wild Salmon Caravan will follow the sockeye run back to the headwaters of the Fraser River up to the Adams River beginning in Vancouver on October 7th, ending on October 12th. Ceremony will be held in many stops and we are looking for community activations of arts and performance for each stop.

We will have more updates in the following weeks.

October 7 – Unceded territories of Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish, Vancouver – Parade from Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre to Trout Lake

OCTOBER 7:

9am Meet at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre (1607 West Hastings), RAINBOW Nations Parade to Trout Lake via Commercial Street with Ceremonies and Salmon Feast (12 noon), Speakers, performances, drumming and singing

October 8 – Stó:lõ Territory, Chilliwack
October 9 – Unceded Nlaka’pamux territory, Coquihalla River 
October 10 – Unceded Nlaka’pamux territory, Merritt/Kamloops
October 11 – Kamloops/Chase 
October 12 – Adams River

We will post a map once we’ve worked out logistics.

Stay tuned here or on our Facebook page.