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Columbia Salmon Festival returns for third year
The third annual Columbia Salmon Festival celebrates the history of the salmon that once migrated to the headwaters. Learn about the cultural significance, the challenges and the prospects of restoring salmon to the Columbia Basin. Festival activities include Columbia Basin First Nations cultural showcases of art, entertainment and food.
This year’s theme is ‘The River We Had, The River We Have and the River We Want.’
This year’s festival runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 28 at Invermere’s Kinsmen Beach.
At 6 p.m. there will be a salmon feast and keynote address by John Ralston Saul, Canadian author of ‘A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada’ at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort. The talk will close the festival and kick off the 2013 Watershed Symposium.
John will speak about how we as Canadians are shaped by aboriginal culture in the context of understanding the past to build the future.
The Watershed Symposium, subtitled Think Like a Watershed, is being held Sept. 29 and 30 at Fairmont.
The symposium will provide an opportunity to build cross-cultural dialogue on watershed governance through the applied lens of First Nations leadership, climate change, and watershed and ecosystem processes.
Through a series of panels and facilitated round table discussions, the Symposium will explore what models of watershed governance might be appropriate for the Columbia Basin.
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