2025 West Coast Elders' Conference
AGENDA
|
TUES, MAY 27, 2025
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
WED, MAY 28, 2025
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
AFTERNOON PROGRAM
12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
THURS, MAY 29, 2025
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
10:30 AM - 6:00 PM
|
DAY ONE - AGENDA
West Coast Crown Hot Breakfast
Opening Prayer & Welcome
K’ómoks First Nation Welcome & Vision for the Land of Plenty
2025 West Coast Elders' Conference — Queneesh Indigenous Community Society Welcome & Opening Plenary
Social Nutrition Break with Traditional Teas, Coffee & Snacks
Gentle Elder Movement for All Ability Levels of Noelle Hanuse
West Coast Alpine Lunch
From Taking to Tending: Looking after the Lands, Looking after the Plants with Dr. Nancy Turner, Ethnobotanist
Foraging Where You Are At: Traditional Plants for Food as Medicine with Diane MacLean, Métis Storyteller, Elder and Environmental Educator
Feasting from Land & Sea: Traditional Use of Plants for Food & Medicine and taste delicious Traditional Foods in Culturally Rooted in Wellness with waakiitusis Nitanis Desjarlais, Indigenous Foodie Mamma, Northern Cree raised on the Northwest Coast and living and raising her family in Ahousaht Nation, Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nation Traditional Territory
Welcome Reception Meet & Greet
Chances Casino Courtenay —Optional Evening Out; Buses Run 5 PM to 9 PM
DAY TWO — AGENDA
West Coast Crown Hot Breakfast
Opening Prayer & Welcome to Day Two of the Conference
Braiding Sweetgrass: Love is Medicine with Monique Gray Smith
Nutrition Break with Traditional Teas, Coffee & Snacks
Cedar Weaving with Tiger Leonard Williams, Master Cedar Weaver
West Coast Alpine Lunch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Cedar Weaving Workshop with Tiger Leonard Williams
Ne'nagwa'nakwala St. Michael's Residential School Project
Regalia Making / Birch Bark Baskets with Gerry Thomas
Ray Tony Charlie, Penelakut Elder, In the Shadow of the Red Brick Building
Wisdom of the Plants: Devils Club with Jean Smith & Johnathan Whonnock
Culturally Rooted in Wellness with waakiitusis Nitanis Desjarlais
Learning from the Land with Dianne MacLean
IWSS Elders and Youth Podcast Ancestral Echoes from CV Arts
Tseshaht’s ʔuuʔatumin yaqckʷiimitqin, Doing it for our Ancestors, Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS)
Traditional Tea & Coffee Break
West Coast Dinner Reception
Regalia Walk + QICS Fashion Show with Featured Designers 4 Our Ancestors, Produced by Fashion Speaks International at the Native Sons Hall, 360 Cliffe Avenue in Courtenay (8 Min from Hotel); Buses Run 5 PM to 9 PM
DAY THREE — AGENDA
West Coast Crown Breakfast
Opening Prayer & Closing Ceremony of the Conference
Hotel Check Out / Teas, Coffee & Snacks / Bagged Lunches to Go
Cedar Weaving as Medicine with Master Cedar Weaver, Tiger Leonard Williams, Kwakwaka'wakw artist, Quatsino First Nation
The Craft of Bentwood Box Making with Bruce Alfred, a celebrated Kwakwaka'wakw 'Namgis artist & Master Carver from 'yalis, Alert Bay, BC
Meet Local Vendors and Explore the QICS 'Hase Artesian Market
The 2025 QICS 'Hase Artisan Market features many local artisans, authors and information tables. Be sure to visit featured artist Corrine Hunt a member of the Raven Gwa'wina clan from Ts'akis, Fort Rupert, a Komoyue village on Vancouver Island. Her rich family history includes internationally renowned First Nations artists George Hunt, Henry Hunt, Richard Hunt and Tony Hunt, all of whom have been influential on her art. |
Gilakas'la. Thank you for sharing this time with us. Until we meet again!