10:00-11:00
Weaving the DAISSI Chain - a morning of spirit

Joy Cameron Lay back in the grass and watch the clouds drift by as Joy, Mistress of the Harp, sends your imagination back to other worlds, fairer times and magical places, returning back feeling refreshed, renewed and revitalized. 

10:15- 11:00
Metta VanderVliet
Queer mindfulness is trending around the world. Online rainbow meditation groups have mushroomed since the pandemic. We’re blessed to have Metta draw our exquisite attention back into our beautiful queer bodies as we settle our minds on breathing in the healthy co-regulating oxygen of the green world that surrounds us.  Metta VanderVliet (they/them) has been practicing meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition for 20 years and is a practicing trauma therapist that runs a weekly mindfulness drop-in group for survivors.

11:00-1:00
Creative Writing for Youth – by Christie Roome
This engaging workshop is funded by the Salt Spring Foundation Small Neighbourhood Grants and will be led by Christie Roome, well known on Salt Spring for her work with youth especially in theatre and creative writing. Christie is trusted by the youth she has previously worked with.  She is skilled in holding their feelings, and guiding their expression onto the paper, discovering their own voice in the process. Let’s hear it for the empowered youth voice!

11:00-12:30
This is a State of Emergency — Responding to Local and Global Threats to Queer Community – by Juli Mallett, Robert Birch and Shamana Ali
From the United States to Uganda, from New Brunswick to Russia, queer and trans people around the world are facing a regressive backlash that includes a loss of legal rights, paranoid public scapegoating, and individual violence. These threats are real, and through political resistance, radical organizing, and mutual aid we can, and must, keep each other safe. Bring the concerns that are on your heart, and your visions of queer liberation to this facilitated discussion, as we explore how to respond to local, regional, and global challenges: from sponsoring refugees to do-it-yourself hormonal transition, from community organizing to sustainable, self-sufficient living. With a spirit of solidarity, resilience, and resistance, we will thrive.

12:30-2:30
Community-Created Potluck 
Salt Spring Island was once famous for its potlucks. Weekly islanders would gather, offer a food blessing, swap tall tales and dream into the next best project. Let’s make our own stone soup together. Bring what you can, your aunt’s bedevilled eggs, that peanut butter cookie recipe everyone raves about, or your favourite nosh. Let’s make this picnic table groan with epicurean pleasure! Let’s enjoy being together in the feast of community spirit.  

7:00-9:00
Woke Unicorn Snowflake Rumpus. Hosted by Nanaimo’s own Vikki Smudge, Drag Queen Extraordinaire! The Talent, No Talent open mic with Shelder the Electric Clamfish and Co-Creation Hub participant offerings. When they go low, we go high! When they make war, we arrive as an army of lovers — making art out of the mess we’re all in. If your heart races reading this, sign up for your five-minute slot at the Co-creation Hub. Whether a tendril shoot of talent or a shooting star, let us love you up!