Pacific Rim Whale Festival Events: March 12, 2010
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ArtSplash! Pacific Rim Arts Society’s Annual Spring Art Show
Daily: 10 am - 6 pm
Harbour Lounge - Weigh West Marine Resort, Tofino
The Pacific Rim Arts Society’s annual community art show is back! Local artists working in mediums from painting to fibre works, photography to clay and wood to silver are set to exhibit their wares. Come and view original artworks and purchase a favorite piece to take with you. Thanks to the Pacific Rim Arts Society.
Jamie’s Whaling Station’s Westcoast Passport to Adventure Contest
Daily
Passports available at any Info Centre or
either Jamie’s Whaling Station & Adventure Centre
On your own time all throughout Whale Festival, visit participating locations to answer quirky & educational interpretive questions and collect PRWFS Stamps to enter the draw for GREAT prizes. Complete your Answer Sheet and enter the draw to win a grand prize at Closing Day Celebrations! Thank you Jamie’s for organizing this annual educational & interactive Festival activity!
Ucluelet Aquarium: Up Close & Personal!
Daily 10 am - 6 pm
Ucluelet Mini Aquarium
Waterfront Promenade, Ucluelet
$5 adults / $3 kids (4-16 yrs) / free under 4 yrs
Get your hands wet in the touch tanks with hungry seastars, sideways sand dollars, bright sea anemones, cool crabs, incredible fish and more! Guest interpreters and special activities! Visit with the undersea critters of Clayoquot Sound & Barkley Sound (including a giant pacific octopus!), which are exhibited - and then later released - back into the wild; all from our own backyard! Curiosity welcome & questions encouraged, for ages 1-101! Open daily 10am-6pm from now on for the season!
Marine Documentary Film Screenings
Daily: 10:15 am & 2 pm
Remote Passages Marine Excursions - at the boathouse, Tofino
Marine-based, educational and documentary films suitable for all ages. Daily screenings schedule at www.remotepassages.com Thank you Remote Passages for years of dedicated support.
Whales & Tales: An Adventure By Boat!
Friday, March 12, 2010: 10 am or 1 pm
Ocean Outfitters, Tofino
(12 spaces/boat) $79/To reserve 250.725.2866
with naturalist Peter Shulze of Strawberry Island Marine Research Society
Come onboard for an exciting 2.5 hour adventure where our captain & guide takes you into Clayoquot Sound in search wildlife which could include whales, black bears, seals, sea lions, puffins, sea otters, bald eagles (aerie too!) and inevitably miles of gorgeous coastline and beaches. An amazing daytrip for all ages with an informative and engaging guide! Partial proceeds to local research efforts. Thanks to Ocean Outfitters for continued Festival support!
Storytelling with artist Roy Henry Vickers
Friday, March 12, 2010: 11 am
Eagle Aerie Gallery, Tofino
Renowned First Nation artist Roy Henry Vickers intimately shares personal stories of coastal life and inspirations, in his own longhouse gallery. He will be releasing Limited Edition prints and Roy will be available for signing following the storytelling. Everyone welcome! Thanks to Eagle Aerie Gallery for years of Whale Festival support.
Skeletons In Our Closets
Friday, March 12, 2010: 11 am
Green Point Campground Theatre, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
with author & marine biologist Jim Cosgrove
You have a skeleton and it serves many functions but what about other animals? Does a Grey Whale, earthworm, jellyfish or butterfly have a skeleton? Jim Cosgrove, a Research Associate at the Royal British Columbia Museum, will be presenting a slide show and talk about skeletons in general and then focus on the development of skeletons in cephalopods: the nautilus, cuttlefish, squid and octopus as well as some extinct forms.
Interactive All-ages Workshop
Friday, March 12, 2010: 1 pm
Seaplane Base Rec Hall, Ucluelet
with SWARM: Hyper-Kinetic Percussion Group
SWARM's extreme drumming captivates & involves the participants with funky invented instruments, passionate performers and powerful energizing music. A great interactive lead-up to their evening performance at 7pm!
Tofino Maritime Kids Day: an all-out afternoon of fun, art, science, and music!
Friday, March 12, 2010: 1 - 4 pm
Tofino Community Hall, Tofino
Activities for all ages! We’re very excited to host the Vancouver Aquarium AquaVan, gumboot painting with the Raincoast Education Society, Bamfield Marine Science Centre science fun galore, recycled crafts for kids, live concert with The Kerplunks at 3pm, snack booth, photos with Knuckles the Whale and more! All ages welcome. Thanks to all of our participating organizations and sponsors including Long Beach Lodge Resort, Carl Scott, Judy Gray, and Remote Passages Marine Excursions.
The Kerplunks – Free Live Concert
Friday, March 12, 2010: 3 pm - 4 pm
Tofino Community Hall, Tofino
Award winning children’s performers at Tofino Maritime Kids Day
Fun & funky! Educational and outrageously engaging 4 piece live band including stand-up bass, drums and horns! Nominated for a 2009 Juno for Children’s Album of the Year! We are so excited to host them again! All ages welcome. Thank you to Long Beach Radio, Weigh West Marine Resort, and District of Tofino.
Wet & Wild: Marine Mammal Research In Barkley & Clayoquot Sounds
Friday, March 12, 2010: 3 pm
Green Point Campground Theatre, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
with marine mammal biologist Wendy Szaniszlo
Grey whales, humpback whales and sea lions, oh my! Why are these and other marine mammals in BC listed as at-risk? Join marine mammal biologist Wendy Szaniszlo in a presentation on the marine mammal monitoring and research programs she’s locally involved in. How does this work contribute to recovery of species-at-risk? Learn the ins and outs, highlights, and some research results through images and tales, right from the mouth of an experienced researcher.
Casual Coffee & Book Signing
Friday, March 12, 2010: 4 pm
Wild Heather Books, Ucluelet
with author and marine biologist Jim Cosgrove
A scuba diver for more than 49 years and a certified diving instructor since 1971, Jim has long been interested in the plants and animals of the ocean. As a scientist, Jim continues his research into the life histories of the octopuses and squids of British Columbia, and as an author he has written, is happy to talk about, and sign copies of Super Suckers: The Giant Pacific Octopus and other Cephalopods of the Pacific Coast.
Sea Change Series hosts Serge Dedina, author of Saving The Gray Whale: People, Politics and Conservation in Baja California
Friday, March 12, 2010: 7 pm
Clayoquot Community Theatre, Tofino
followed by SurfRider Movie Night screening ‘Morning of the Earth’
Admission at the door: $5
Join special guest Serge Dedina for an engaging presentation, and then we’ll screen the classic 70’s surf film! Serge Dedina is the Executive Director of WiLDCOAST, an international conservation organization based on the U.S.-Mexico border that works in the United States and Mexico to preserve coastal and marine ecoystems and wildlife. He discovered the plans by the Mitsubishi Corporation to transform Laguna San Ignacio, a gray whale calving lagoon and UNESCO world heritage site in Mexico into an industrial salt harvesting facility and helped to defeat the project. To date, Serge has helped to protect more than one million acres of globally significant coastal and marine habitat and has successfully stopped some of the world’s largest corporations from destroying the coast of the Californias. In recognition of his conservation achievements Serge received San Diego Zoological Society’s Conservation Medal, the California Coastal Commission’s “Environmental Hero” Award and the Surf Industry Manufacturer’s Association “Environmentalist of the Year” award. Thanks to Pacific Sands Beach Resort and SurfRider-Pacific Rim Chapter!
SWARM: Hyper-Kinetic Percussion Theatre
Friday, March 12, 2010: 7pm
Seaplane Base Rec Hall, Ucluelet
Tickets at the door: $10 adults/$5 kids 12 & under/Family of 4 pass $25
Feature musical performance - for all ages! SWARM, the hyper-kinetic percussion troupe jumps into action with their fusion of original rhythms, ingeniously created instruments, and hyper-kinetic choreography. Veteran action-drummer, Bill Wallace, collaborates with the other performers to bring you the continually evolving repertoire that is a contemporary collage of evocative experimental sounds, mobile mechanical stage design, and exquisite primal movements.
