Welcome Post events: May to June 2018

May 17, 2018 by Noons Creek Leave a Comment

Welcome Post Project events presented by the Port Moody Ecological Society, managed by Tasha Faye Evans.

Thu, May 17 6:30 PM

Ceremony and Coast Salish Protocols with Aaron “Splash” Nelson-Moody

Noons Creek Hatchery (Port Moody Ecological Society), Port Moody

Thu, May 24 6:30 PM

2-Day Coast Salish Wool Weaving with Angela George – May 24 & 31 (2 evenings)

Noons Creek Hatchery (Port Moody Ecological Society), Port Moody

Sun, Jun 3 1:00 PM

Cedar Weaving Workshop with Tsawaysia Alice Guss

Noons Creek Hatchery (Port Moody Ecological Society), Port Moody

Thu, Jun 21 6:00 PM

Coast Salish House Post Raising: National Indigenous Day

Now at Rocky Point Park in Port Moody.

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Join us for a Creative breakfast at the Creek at Noons Creek Hatchery in the City of Port Moody. Pay what you can. Creative breakfast by the creek. A community gathering for breakfast and watershed education. Arts and crafts activities for children and youth will be available. Please dress warmly and appropriately for the weather […]

June 16 – Community gift making for the Give Away. Lets work together to create gifts for the Give Away at our Nation Indigenous People’s Day event. Bring your traditional artistic practice and enough materials to share if you wish. Some supplies will be available. Contact us for further details. Image shown for display purposes only. […]

June 9 – Cedar Weaving Workshop With Tsawaysia Spukwus. Learn how to weave cedar into beautiful bracelets with traditional artist and knowledge keeper Tsawaysia Spukwus. Weaving shown are examples only. Actual items being made will be decided by the artist on the day. Acknowledging that we are on the unceded, occupied, ancestral and traditional lands of […]

June 2 – People of the Inlet: A History of Tsleil Waututh Nation at Inlet Theatre, Port Moody. Listen to Carleen Thomas share slides and family stories about her Nation’s history located here in the Burrard Inlet. Further your understanding of what it means to be residents of Port Moody and joining the legacy of ancestors […]

September 2019 – Residency with Brandon Gabriel. More details to follow.

June 21 – National Indigenous People’s Day Community Paddle and Feast. Celebrate National Indigenous People’s Day in a canoe or watch from the pier as Ta-ah Amy George and Cultural Leader Charlene Aleck lead a water blessing ceremony for the Burrard Inlet. Hear the different songs and witness the traditional ocean-going canoes from neighbouring First Nations. […]

May 26, 2019 – Gathering Medicines and Tea Making With Cease Wyss. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Have you ever wondered what traditional medicines grow in our backyard? Join us for an exciting guided nature walk and tea making workshop with Cease Wyss. Pre-registration is required for the Tea Making Workshop; an Eventbrite link coming soon! Acknowledging […]

May 16, 2019 – Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Port Moody Foreshore Parks. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery. Please join us for a slideshow and presentation on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Port Moody Foreshore with Dr. Stan Copp.

May 10, 2019 – Heritage Paddle up the Inlet with Takaya Tours from 10am – 3pm. Location: Cates Park Journey up the Indian Arm in traditional canoes led by cultural leader and skipper Dennis Thomas. Learn the history of the first people of the Inlet, hear their songs, and visit ancestral village sites and see […]

May 9, 2019 – Xaxatko: Water Spirit. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Please join us for a hiphop poetry multi-media performance with Ostwelve: Ronnie Dean Harris.

May 2, 2019 – Drop of Water artist talk with Ocean Hyland from 7 – 9pm. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Ocean Hyland will be leading a talk about her two week residency at Noons Creek hatchery . Join us as we celebrate her work!

April 28, 2019 from 10am to 4pm – Coast Salish Community Canoe Painting Project. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Join Brandon Gabriel as we come together as a community paint a canoe and learn about Coast Salish design. This project is proudly funded through a grant from the City of Port Moody. Read more about the […]

April 25, 2019 – Water is Sacred. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Kwantlin artist and cultural leader Brandon Gabriel returns to our community to further our conversation about participating in change and how part of this change is understanding how water is sacred for all of our relations.

April 22 – May 4, 2019: Artist Residency, Ocean Hyland. Includes and artist talk on May 2, 2019 from 2pm – 7pm. Location: Noons Creek Hatchery Visual and multi media artist Ocean Hyland will be spending two weeks at the Hatchery refining her skills as an apprenticing carver. She will be joined by various mentors and Coast […]

April 20, 2019 from 12pm – 2pm – Stakw: Water is Life Project and Community BBQ. Location Noons Creek Hatchery April 20th will be the first event of a Spring long journey with the Welcome Post Project. Join us as we celebrate water’s significance in Coast Salish culture and the connection water has to our […]

Stakw: Water is Life Project overview. Join us as we embark on the Welcome Post Project’s second year of Coast Salish Cultural events. This year’s project is about Water and the significance of water in Coast Salish culture and the way of life for all of our relations. The Welcome Post Project is hosting several […]

🌷 🌷 🌷 May delivery date TBC. Tulips and daffodil bulbs – we will announce when they are available, hopefully at this year’s Fingerling Festival, held the first Saturday of May. Please visit our facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/Noonscreek/ When they arrive, bulbs will be on sale – cash only – at our Noons Creek hatchery for just $5 a […]

27th Annual Fingerling Festival on May 4, 2019. Call for volunteers and exhibitors! On Saturday, May 4, 2019, from 11 am – 3 pm, the Port Moody Ecological Society invites everyone to attend our very special Fingerling Festival. Yes, it’s been more than 25 years since we first started our bucket brigade, putting chum salmon […]

Drop by the hatchery on Saturday, August 24, 2019 for our annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Bring your family and friends – all ages welcome. In 2018, more than 60 volunteers helped clear over 40kg’s of garbage from along our shoreline at our Noons Creek hatchery for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Let’s hopefully collect […]

Outdoor Classrooms. We encourage school and community groups to bring their students to the hatchery for one of our engaging workshop that are offered throughout the year. Bookings: please call Dave Bennie on 604-469-9106 for enquiries or email portmoodyecologicalsociety@hotmail.com to book. Our classes cost $45.00 for up to 15 students and $5.00 for every student […]