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The 18th annual BC Food Systems Network Gathering
July 15, 2016 — July 17, 2016
| Location: | En’owkin Centre near Penticton, BC |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Contact Email: | gathering@bcfsn.org |
The 18th annual BC Food Systems Network Gathering will be July 15 – 17, 2016 in Syilx Territory at the En’owkin Centre near Penticton, BC.
Each year since 1999 the Network has gathered somewhere in BC to share knowledge, experience, and wisdom from the grassroots. This annual Gathering is a celebration of BC’s food systems and a coming-together of traditional and indigenous food skills with research and new developments on the ground. It is an empowering and fun way to meet some of the amazing people around BC working in the front lines of food security and food sovereignty.
This year the theme of the Gathering is Reconciling Cultures and Re-connecting Foodscapes. The Gathering will be an opportunity for various cultures to come together with the Syilx and other Indigenous people to explore together what it means to truly reconcile with the first peoples of the land and water. The gathering will also dive into what it means to reconnect with and honour the foodscape: the lands and waters that are so vital to BC food systems and community well-being.
For more information about this event, please visit the BC Food Systems Network website.