A free event celebrating the connection between healthy housing, community and environment
On Sunday, September 18th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Edward Milne Community School public is invited to attend “Home” – an event honouring the shared health, well-being and connection to the ecosystem as one community of T’Sou-ke and Sooke on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples.
“Home is not limited to the house. It encompasses one’s entire traditional territory,” said T’Sou-ke Nation Chief, Gordon Planes. “Recognizing the natural environment, including where our food and water comes from, where ceremony takes place, the spaces where children play and where ancestors lay to rest, home is so much more than one’s house.”
The September 18th event will provide time and space to acknowledge the traditional territory on which our communities reside and work to facilitate a stronger connection to the history of the lands.
“This event is an opportunity to listen, learn and honour a perspective of home that is more than a single structure,” Mayor Maja Tait said. “While the event is one day, it is a day to celebrate our friendship and communities on the traditional territories of the T’Sou-ke Nation – and it is a day that will help guide us in our commitment to the process of truth and reconciliation.”
Complimentary Orange Shirts Available for Event Attendees
T’Sou-ke Nation children and youth have contributed their hand prints for a local shirt design. A limited supply of these shirts will be distributed (at no cost) at the September 18th event.
More details on the event will be shared as it approaches. At this time, we invite you to “save the date.”