The Ancient Forest Alliance is most grateful to the Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) for their major support provided through their Community Contributions grant program. This funding support will allow the AFA to fully complete the Avatar Grove Boardwalk as a model for sustainable eco-tourism promoting old-growth forest conservation. See MEC's website at: www.MEC.ca
Thank you to all who donated towards the AFA’s 5 Year Anniversary Celebration & Dinner as well as our 5th Anniversary Earth Day fundraising goals! We greatly appreciate the guests, volunteers, businesses, organizations, artists and others whose generous contributions made the evening an occasion to remember, as well as the many others who weren’t able to make it but have contributed during this pivotal time.
With your dedicated support, we will continue to broaden our movement, complete the Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, protect specific endangered ancient forests, and work towards ensuring comprehensive, science-based legislation to protect endangered old-growth forests across BC.
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5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION – BUSINESS, ORGANIZATION, ARTIST & EVENT CONTRIBUTORS
Chefs and Front House Coordinator
A huge thanks to chef Landon Crawford, as well as his team Tom and Dion and front house coordinator Gaby Bolanos for preparing and coordinating the serving of the incredible 3-course sustainable meal for the evening.
Music
We are extremely grateful for the live music provided by acclaimed Vancouver Island singer-songwriter Shauna Janz, whose song Redwood was nominated for “Song of the Year” at the 2015 Vancouver Island Music Awards. Shauna generously donated her time to be with us for the evening.
Speakers
Thank you to our dedicated, knowledgeable and inspirational speakers – Andy Mackinnon (forest ecologist and best-selling co-author of the Plants of Coastal BC), Vicky Husband (conservationist and Order of Canada recipient), and Arnie Bercov (president of the Pulp, Paper, and Woodworkers of Canada union).
Business Sponsors
Thanks to our business sponsors who contributed to cover various costs of the event – Patagonia Victoria for general event costs, Megson Fitzpatrick Insurance Services (www.megsonfitzpatrick.com) for insurance costs, Truffles Catering (www.trufflescatering.net) for kitchen use, and Pedersen’s Rentals (pedersens.ca) for a covering a portion of our rental equipment for the evening. Thanks as well to Hemp and Co. (www.hempandcompany.com) for their continued support through the printing of AFA T-shirts and other clothing items, and through merchandise sales at their store.
Food & Drink
Donating food and drink to the evening’s incredible dinner and bar menu were Hope Hill Farm (www.notafactory.com) on Salt Spring Island, Michell’s Farm (www.michellsfarm.com) in Saanichton, Sun Trio Farm (www.suntriofarm.com) in Central Saanich, as well as Hoyne Brewing (hoynebrewing.ca), Sea Cider (seacider.ca), and Tugwell Creek Honey Farm & Meadery (tugwellcreekfarm.com).
Door Prizes
Many local businesses, organizations and artists/authors donated to the night’s array of door prizes. Prizes included gift certificates by Patagonia Victoria, Sitka (sitka.ca), Sol Integrative Healing (www.solhealing.ca), Harmony Belly Dance (www.harmonybellydance.com) and Lifestyle Markets (lifestylemarkets.com); a 30-day unlimited yoga pass by Moksha Yoga Westshore (mokshayogawestshore.com); merchandise by Patagonia Vancouver; gift sets by SeaFlora Wild Organic Seaweed Skincare (www.sea-flora.com), Harmony Herbal Teas (harmonyherbals.net), Café 932 and Nezza Naturals (www.nezzanaturals.com); wine from Kermode Wild Berry Winery (www.kermodewildberry.com); a wooden science kit by Pathfinders Design & Technology (www.pathfindersdesignandtechnology.com); copies of the CD Wildside by Quoia (quoia.bandcamp.com); a cutting board of salvaged Pacific Yew from Bahnmann Timber (bahnmanntimber.ca); a set of wooden coasters by Evan Patterson Contracting, Detox Spa sessions from Platinum Energy Systems (www.platinumenergysystems.ca); a gift certificate and hair products from Inspire Hair Design (inspirehairdesign.ca); ‘Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada’ by Elizabeth May from the West Coast Greens (www.greenparty.ca), ‘The Great Western Canada Bucket List by author Robin Esrock (www.canadianbucketlist.com), books by Al Carder, and ‘Alpine Plants of British Columbia, Alberta and Northwest North America’ from co-author Andy Mackinnon.
The Ancient Forest Alliance is most grateful to the Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) for their major support provided through their Community Contributions grant program. This funding support will allow the AFA to expand our capacity as an organization and strengthen our campaign to protect endangered old-growth forests on Vancouver Island! See MEC's website at: www.MEC.ca
The AFA would also like to thank Innerlife Health Services (innerlife.ca) for their Community Clinic on January 25th, offering BodyTalk sessions with proceeds to the Ancient Forest Alliance, as well as Climbing Arborist (www.climbingarborist.com) and the Mat Fernandez Project for supporting the AFA through their film screening event on January 30th, which included Darryl Augustine's (Roadside Films) AFA documentary. Thank you to all who were involved for your dedicated support!
Thanks to Vancouver photographer Karen Cooper (www.karencooperphotography.com) for supporting the AFA through the sale of her plaque-mounted photographs of Echo Lake. 15% of the proceeds from each Echo Lake plaque goes to support the AFA’s work!
Plaques of Echo Lake are available in 5×7″, 8×12″, and 12×18″ sizes.
For more information, view Karen’s website at www.karencooperphotography.com or visit her gallery at 1506 Duranleau St on Granville Island.
The Ancient Forest Alliance would like to thank James at PosterLoop Media for helping spread the word about our recent Rally for Ancient Forests by donating space on their rotating digital sign displays around downtown Victoria!
Visit PosterLoop’s website to check out the creative services they offer! https://posterloop.com/index.php
A big thanks goes out to Victoria based Metropol Printshop for volunteer their postering service time by putting up our recent ancient forest rally posters on all the downtown poles! This is a tremendous help and time saver when you’re organizing a large event!
Metropol offers many printing services for things such as posters, postcards, handbills, business cards, stickers, and other eco-friendly printing along with postering services around town!
Check Metropol out online.
– Local musician Vince Vaccaro for playing his great new song “Silence in the Trees”. Listen here: https://vincevaccaro.bandcamp.com/track/silence-in-the-trees
– The great speakers and presenters;
Gisele Martin – Tlaoquiaht cultural educator and tourism operator
Robert Morales – Hul’qumi’num Chief Treaty Negotiator
Judith Sayers – Hupacasath member and UVic adjunct professor
Jens Wieting – Sierra Club of BC campaigner
Arnold Bercov – Pulp, Paper, and Woodworkers of Canada president (local 8)
Norm Macdonald – MLA for Columbia River-Revelstoke and Opposition Critic for Forestry
Ken Wu & TJ Watt– Ancient Forest Alliance co-founders
– Kim Old from Kold Design for creating the awesome event poster!
– James at PosterLoop Media for displaying our rally poster around town.
– Metropol Print Shop for donating their time to get our hardcopy posters up on all the poster poles in Victoria.
– And all of the volunteers who phoned and invited our supporters, put posters up all over town, and helped setup the night of the event!
THANK YOU ALL!!!
A big thanks goes out to the Victoria Skafest organizers who made a generous donation to the Ancient Forest Alliance as part of their carbon offset program. The organizers also provided space for the AFA to table at the event which gathered hundreds of petition signatures and many new friends.
As North American’s largest and longest running ska festival with 4 Days of Ska, Reggae, Punk and Dub it’s not an event to miss!
You can visit their website to find out more information here: https://victoriaskafest.ca/
THANK YOU to Bikram Yoga Saanich and Abbey and David Boon for their generous support from holding Karma classes to benefit the Ancient Forest Alliance. Check out their website if you need yoga classes!
https://www.bikramyogasaanich.com/
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