Emily Carr Community Festival of the Arts and Ecology

West Shore | Victoria | Spring 2008

Come Together

Answer the call to climate change

Celebrate

The natural world
Local food, art and culture
Green learning and healthy living
Community environmental stewardship

Discover

The beauty and power of our
community's wild places
– forests, farms, lakes, meadows and the seas –
The magnificence of First Nations cultures
Talented artists and performers

Learn

How to live, work and thrive as we move
toward a sustainable future

< a call to artists >

< download festival book (5.1MB) >

[part 1 | 1.7MB] [part 2 | 1.0MB]
[part 3 | 1.2MB] [part 4 | 1.5MB]

Thanks to our sponsors!

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Support the CAWS

The festival is a project of CLIMATE ACTION WEST SHORE, a grassroots community alliance championed through the West Shore Chamber of Commerce, and involving a growing network of local community business, education, arts, culture, recreation, and environmental groups and organizations, representing people
of all ages and abilities.

Honouring our Festival Partners and Sponsors


Welcome to a special community festival! Welcome to the Emily Carr Community Festival of the Arts and Ecology, a weaving together of art, culture and community. We are proud to honour the eco-cultural legacy of artist and author Emily Carr, as we celebrate local art, culture and heritage, UNESCO’s International Year of Planet Earth, and the Decade of Sustainable Development (2005-2014).		Carr, Emily \| Lagoon at Albert Head \| c. 1936 \| oil on paper 51.5 cm x 72.5 cm The Thomas Gardiner Keir Bequest Collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria