September 19 – 28, 2025

In 2025, with Sinku as our companion, the Festival will bring forward ideas and stories that are uniquely and deeply connected to our lands, air and waters, with a focus on the “Trail Bay” waterfront, from the gravel belt to the rocks at Snickett Park. Sinku is the she shashishalhem word for “open water”, or what we commonly call the Salish Sea today. From September 19 – 28 we will host an interdisciplinary festival that includes film screenings, a keynote lecture, a digital heritage project, an ecological field school, hands-on workshops, youth-focused climate action theatre, an exhibition, and a thematic community procession on the autumnal equinox culminating in a large-scale waterfront concert.