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The dream? A community workshop for bike maintenance and parts.
Maren's small initiative is already showing how diverse people can unite through cycling.
What a wonderful vision for the future! 
#BicycleRepair #CommunityBuilding
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Grace isn’t about avoiding responsibility. It’s about staying open. It’s about keeping space for growth, both in ourselves and others.
So today’s detour became something sacred: a practice in humility. A call to curiosity. A reminder that in the work of building community and co-creating a just world, I must always—always—return to the question:
“What am I missing?”
Whether you are a regular park visitor, or have never heard of #WellandCommunityOrchard before, come out and explore with a guided 1 hour #tour of this incredible community resource. Learn about some of the 100 + heritage apple varieties planted in the orchard, as well as some fruit trees you may have never heard of before such as Plout and Medlar! Plus learn about some of the interesting features on site including rainwater collection, pollinator habitat and native plant gardens.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/welland-orchard-tour-tickets-1133517805269?aff=oddtdtcreator
#GuidedTours of the #CommunityOrchard is by public donation with all funds going back into orchard needs/upkeep/stewardship. We are grassroots nonprofit.
The tour will be followed by a Welland Orchard Work Party from 1pm-3pm. If you plan to attend both, feel free to bring a lunch and enjoy a picnic in the orchard. For more information about the work party or to sign up, please visit the Gleaning Hub at https://gleaning.lifecyclesproject.ca
EventbriteWelland Orchard TourCome on out to Welland Orchard for a fun and educational tour of the park!
Come on out & #volunteer for fun #signmaking at #WellandCommunityOrchard with me & others!
There's 2 days for new signs making work to be done. I'll be there on both days 
Monday, July 21st, 10am-12pm.
Sunday, July 27th, 1pm-3pm.
Join in as we start on a new project of creating some beautiful and engaging #signage in the orchard. Together we will be working on sanding, painting and varnishing wooden signs to label each fruit tree in the orchard! Artistic skills are welcome but not required.
You can register for all volunteer shifts on the Gleaning Hub:
https://gleaning.lifecyclesproject.ca/index.php
The Monday sign making #workparty is followed with an afternoon orchard work party - we need help with pruning fruit trees, weeding & general orchard care duties.
#HelpersWanted #Volunteering #CommunityBuilding #CommunityWork #LifecyclesProject #Grassroots #nonprofit #FoodSecurity #ViewRoyal #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #stewardship #CommunityPark #CommunityOrchard #orchard #MakeSigns
#Contribute #VolunteersWanted #LendAHand #NoExperienceNeeded #HelpingHands #VolunteersCall
gleaning.lifecyclesproject.caLifeCycles | Gleaning & Volunteer Hub
Jada's #printmaking reveal
At #WellandCommunityOrchard #DIY #CreativeArt #workshop today.
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A space where you don’t have to perform — you get to grow.
The work of building a future of work starts with being honest about where we are — and what we still need to learn.
Join the PWO community today. Link in bio.
FOUNDINGMEMBERS discount ends June 30.
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This is our opportunity to co-create something rooted in transparency, accountability, and care. A place where we can challenge harmful norms without compromising who we are.
If you’ve been waiting for a sign — this is it.
Join us. Let’s build what we’ve always deserved.
https://community.profitwithoutoppression.com/share/mOfg5sYQh3oyZ1e6?utm_source=manual
Come & join me & River (organizer/facilitator) for another fun creative workshop in August! At #WellandCommunityOrchard in #Saanich #VictoriaBC.
1st #NaturalDyeing in the Orchard workshop!
Learn how to use locally grown #flowers to #create beautiful patterns on fabric, and create your own flower pounded tote bag to take home.
Welland Legacy Park & Community Orchard
1215 Stancil Lane
Sunday, August 24 · 10am - 12pm.
Free for seniors. By donation for marginalized folks. Regular pricing for all others. All supplies are included.
EventbritePrintmaking in the OrchardLearn a variety of printmaking making techniques including collagraph and lino cut and use them to print your own tote bag!
Come & join me & River (organizer/facilitator) for a fun creative workshop! At #WellandCommunityOrchard in #Saanich #VictoriaBC. *my photo used for event promo*
2nd #Printmaking in the Orchard workshop!
#Learn a variety of printmaking making techniques including #collagraph and #linocut and use them to print your own tote bag!
Welland Legacy Park & Community Orchard
1215 Stancil Lane
Sunday, June 29 · 10am - 12pm.
Free for seniors. By donation for marginalized folks. Regular pricing for all others. All supplies are included.
EventbritePrintmaking in the OrchardLearn a variety of printmaking making techniques including collagraph and lino cut and use them to print your own tote bag!
#MomsAgainstRacism Hosts - Be A Kid: Cookie Decorating & Bouncy Castle!
Come out for June’s Be A Kid Event - a fun day just for #BIPOCkids and their families with cookie decorating, games, and a bouncy castle!
McTavish Academy Of Art
1720 McTavish Rd.
Sat, Jun 28, 2025 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
We’re also inviting all our MAR families to join the fun from 4:00 – 6:00 pm for our 3rd annual MAR Family Picnic!
Minimum contribution: $10 per family.
Open to #children who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or a Child of Colour) and their immediate families/caregivers. White presenting kids with racial hertitage and white family members/caregivers are warmly welcomed.
The Be a Kid program supports our members, the public, and their #racialized #kids in creating #community. This program will help to create opportunities for Black, Indigenous and #ChildrenOfColour to connect with each other, in a psychologically and culturally safer environment, while participating in an activity they may otherwise not.
https://momsagainstracism.ca/event/mar-be-a-kid-cookie-decorating-bouncy-castle/
momsagainstracism.caMAR Be A Kid: Cookie Decorating & Bouncy Castle! – Moms Against Racism
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If that’s you, I invite you to join us.
Because the future is not a hand-me-down. It’s something we create—together.
Here's the event slideshow.
1st #NorthAfrican #Cookout at Fed Farm in #Vicwest. Absolutely fabulous community event! Lots of delicious #Moroccan & #Tunisian foods were cooked & given to guests to eat. Many stories shared. Beautiful acoustic music was played. Wonderful new local BIPOC connections were made & some lovely reunions occurred too. I had a really great time!
Most folks who came out had similar displacement backgrounds. Several of us are war survivors who lost our family homes overseas & are far from many family members(my Mom's side is stuck in remote offgrid village) who are still living in our homelands. It was good for our souls to be around fellow POC diaspora. We understand each other better than others do because of similar life experiences from before coming to Canada. We also faced similar struggles/racism when we came to Canada as refugees of wars.
I am looking forward to helping them out more at some future community connecting events & grassroots projects in the near future.
On #Clapper
https://clapperapp.com/video/7XoLv0ZRWYbzBkgy?is_invite=1&r=DPjnVj3gPj&c=sh&m=co
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Dgey4f5HzWk
Organized by Iyé Creative Collective.
https://www.iyeherstories.com/
Hosted at Fed Farm.
https://www.get-fed.ca/fed-urban-farm
clapperapp.comPhotos from #NorthAfrican #Cookout. #BIPOC #Community #Food Organized by Iyé Creative Collective.
https://www.iyeherstories.com/
Hosted at Fed Farm.
https://www.get-fed.ca/fed-urban-farm - ClapperPhoenixSerenity @PhoenixSerenity has created a short video on Clapper | Photos from #NorthAfrican #Cookout. #BIPOC #Community #Food Organized by Iyé Creative Collective.
https://www.iyeherstories.com/
Hosted at Fed Farm.
https://www.get-fed.ca/fed-urban-farm
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#Beverages available for guests at the #NorthAfrican Cookout yesterday.
#Moroccan #tea served by a gentleman in cultural outfit.
Infused #lavendar & #lemon #water & lemon & #mint water.
Organized by Iyé Creative Collective.
https://www.iyeherstories.com/
Hosted at Fed Farm.
https://www.get-fed.ca/fed-urban-farm
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#Moroccan & #Tunisian #food -
Free cultural meals for all guests at #NorthAfrican #Cookout yesterday 
Roasted zucchini, eggplant stew, bell peppers/cucumbers/tomatoes/onions salad & 2 kinds of mini sandwiches with olives.
Organized by Iyé Creative Collective.
https://www.iyeherstories.com/
Hosted at Fed Farm.
https://www.get-fed.ca/fed-urban-farm
Amir, tuning his acoustic guitar. He's #Syrian.
Hungry guests & volunteers, lined up to fill their plates with yummy #foods from Morocco & Tunisia.
Lovely urban farm location.
So much #cultural #community #love shared & beautiful new #BIPOC connections were made
Organized by Iyé Creative Collective.
https://www.iyeherstories.com/
Hosted at Fed Farm.
https://www.get-fed.ca/fed-urban-farm
From yesterday. Vid wouldn't upload from site.
This is still during event prep & waiting for more guests to arrive.
Organized by Iyé Creative Collective.
https://www.iyeherstories.com/
Hosted at Fed Farm.
https://www.get-fed.ca/fed-urban-farm
I'm processing all the photos/vids from yesterday now. Then going for a mental wellness walk in nearby forest. Napping after lunch. Visiting one client in afternoon. Getting back to personal communications when back from client appointment.
I have a couple of phone meetings today to discuss creating a #cultural #SeedLibrary (separate from the LifeCycles Victoria Seed Library project). The BIPOC specific seeds library would be only for food crop seeds from our far away homelands that aren't really grown or known about here. There's many of us POC who've been displaced from our homelands & far from our traditional food crops. There's a gap with seed libraries here - all the ones currently available are colonial & don't include many POC traditional food crop seeds. I want to work with local, #BIPOC #diaspora folks to create the first cultural seed library on #VancouverIsland. I met several fellow displaced POC war survivors yesterday & there's a lot of interest in this idea. I want to work on making it a reality. BIPOC #FoodSecurity initiative.
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But you know what’s worse than failing? Not trying at all.
Because if there’s even one person out there who’s also feeling isolated…who’s also feeling like they’ve lost something vital in all this noise…who’s also ready to build something better—then it’s already worth it.
This is the risk.
This is the work.
This is the invitation.
Let’s start over—together.
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Not just as a member, but as a co-conspirator.
Together, we build.
Together, we grow.
Together, we break the cycle of surface connections and start nourishing something deeper.
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So if you’ve been searching for a community where justice is a shared responsibility, where growth doesn’t mean harm, and where you're not expected to shoulder it all alone—consider this your invitation.
Because the only way we move forward is together.