The Festival supports our mission, grounded in environmental justice, to mobilize and support collective action to protect the Salish Sea region, as we work towards our vision of a Salish Sea teeming with life, where thriving and just communities live in balance with the environment.

 

Georgia Strait Alliance acknowledges that we live and work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. We respect and honour the people of all territories, and acknowledge that this land was never surrendered, relinquished, or handed over in any way. We also acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past and present, and their ongoing and intergenerational impact on Indigenous communities and individuals, acknowledging that the last residential school closed in 1997. We are committed to reconciliation and collaboration, and to working  with Indigenous Nations in ways they decide that we can best support them.