SkeenaWild Youth Film Camp Coming This August!
Want to learn how to shoot and produce your own film? We’re looking for people excited to share their stories about the Skeena! Your film could be showcased at our upcoming SkeenaWild Film Festival this fall.
This 3 day video production program-running from August 10 to 12-will teach young people to make short films about their issues and their vision for a better future.
Participants will learn how to:
- use a digital video camera
- set up lighting and sound
- employ various camera angles and composition
- form a story around the issue of choice
- translate these skills into a film that expresses unique perspectives
Other services provided:
- introduction to editing program Final Cut Pro
- collaborate with an editor to complete film
- choose soundtrack from Reel Youth’s database of original Canadian music
What to expect from the instructors:
Reel Youth facilitators are artists themselves. They are fluent in empowering youth to use the arts. They’ve been trained to mentor young artists in their own filmmaking experience. Their job is to help the particpants make the best film possible while ensuring all creative control is left with the artists. Participants leave the workshop confident in their filmmaking skills, excited about the film they created and empowered to share their creation.
Sign Up by August 3rd for this free camp!
When: August 10, 11, 12 from 10-5 each day
Where: Northwest Community College Terrace campus
Who: for ages 14 to 20
For more information or to sign up contact Rod at 250-638-0998 or
For more information on previous Reel Youth Film Camps visit http://www.reelyouth.ca
Solidarity Gathering of Nations
The Haisla and Gitga’at Nations invite all peoples to a traditional gathering to reaffirm our commitment to stopping the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and the oil tanker traffic it would bring to our coastal waters.
Join us for presentations (TBA) and a dinner featuring ancestral foods of the Gitga’at, Haisla and other north coast First Nations.
Saturday, May 29th
Haisla Recreation Centre, Kitamaat Village
Event begins at 9:00 am. Dinner served at 4:30 pm.
Traditional dancing to follow dinner.
Please confirm your attendance by sending an e-mail to . For more info, call 250-632-1521.
Norm Hann Paddle Boards Proposed Tanker Route
On Saturday, May 8th, Norm Hann of Squamish BC embarked on a 385 kilometre journey to help raise awareness about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal and the irreparable damage that it will cause. This mega development would see a dual 1,170 km pipeline carrying over half a million barrels of crude oil from the Alberta tarsands to Kitimat, where Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC’s) would be loaded and shipped to Asian markets. BC’s Great Bear Rainforest would see 225 oil tankers per year.
Just under one year after Ali Howard swam the entire 610 km length of the Skeena River to raise awareness about Coal-bed Methane development in the Sacred Headwaters, Norm sets out on a familiar journey to do the same.
Norm will be travelling through very prominent and well known whale and orca migratory routes, rich salmon and bird migratory routes and of course through some of the BC coasts richest food harvesting territories of many coastal First Nations and non-First Nations alike.
Please visit Norms blog site and support him in any way you can.
Stand Up 4 Great Bear Expedition 2010
Awakening the Skeena
An epic journey. A fragile wilderness under seige. An uncertain future and a call to action.
In the summer of 2009, Ali Howard became the first person to ever swim the 610km length of the Skeena river from its birthplace in the Sacred Headwaters to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean. Independent film maker – Andrew Eddy of Double Haul Productions Text Here just finished putting the finishing touches on his documentary film, ““Awakening the Skeena” of Ali Howard’s journey and will launch a regional tour that begins in Iskut on April 7th, 2010.
See film dates below and please keep in mind that some dates & locations my change – so keep an eye on the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition web page.
We’re excited to watch the film with each community that gave us so much support.
Tentative Schedule – please note that these dates are NOT confirmed unless posted
April:
8th – Telegraph Creek: Rec Centre, 7pm (confirmed)
9th – Dease Lake: Community Hall, 7pm (confirmed)
12th – Smithers: ROI Theatre, 7pm (confirmed)
14th – Moricetown
16th – Hazelton: Gitanmaax Hall, 7pm (confirmed)
20th – Kispiox: Community Hall, 7pm (confirmed)
25th – Kitwanga (confirmed)
27th – Gitsegukla: 5pm School/Community Hall (confirmed)
29th – Kitselas
30th – Terrace: REM Lee Theatre, 7pm (confirmed)
May:
2nd – Houston
3rd – Prince George: Canfor Theatre – UNBC, 7pm (confirmed)
14th – New Aiyansh
15th – Gingolx/Canyon City
16th – Kitimat
17th – Prince Rupert (confirmed)
18th – Masset
19th – Queen Charlotte City
Location Dates to be announced:
Iskut
Lax’kwalaams
Metlakatla
Gitanyow
Vancouver
Victoria
Contact Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition for more info
(250)842-2494
SkeenaWild Cash Giveaway!
SkeenaWild recently sponsored a cash giveaway to highlighting the economic worth of the Skeena River’s wild salmon economy. The event was so successful in Smithers in early July that we will doing it again soon…
stay tuned!
Bulkley Valley Centre presents: Skeena Salmon Habitat Conference
Hudson Bay Lodge - Smithers, BC - September 15 & 16, 2009
Integrating Skeena Salmonid Habitat Conservation from Headwaters to Ocean
• Existing and historical collaborative experiences in the Skeena will be examined.
• Challenges and opportunities for institutional reform will be identified.
• Current research on salmon habitat conservation and ecosystem-based management will be presented.
With this conference, a discussion of the institutional changes needed to implement collaborative management of Skeena salmon habitat will be initiated.
Presenters from a broad spectrum of resource interests will discuss how they are meeting the challenges of salmon habitat conservation in the Skeena watershed in northwest British Columbia.
Presentation and Poster Abstract Submission Deadline:
July 31, 2009. The number that can be accepted is limited.
Early Registration Deadline:
August 15, 2009