Pacific Rim Whale Festival Events: March 13, 2010
This icon signifies a Button Event.
Show your 2010 Pacific Rim Whale Festival button for free admission to the events marked with this icon. Buttons are available for $2 each at most events, and can also be bought at local Visitor Info Centres or at most whale watching companies. Visit our buttons page for more information!
Gourmet Local Food Breakfast
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 8 am - 10 am
UAC Hall, Ucluelet
Tickets at the event: $10
with the Ucluelet Community Food Initiative & Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade
A great way to celebrate together - with some locally sourced and deeelicious breakfast foods! Not your average community fundraising breakfast - come find out why and support 3 local community groups all at the same time. Thank you to the UCFI and the Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade.
Wild Pacific Trail: New Section Grand Opening Celebration
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 9:30 am
Meet at He-Tin-Kis Park - Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet
There’s a new stretch of trail that the WPTS is proud to officially cut the ribbon on! Come on down and support this local treasure, and join in the Rainforest Program on the Trail at 10am after the Grand Opening!
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!
Recipe for a Rainforest – Family Rainforest Program
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 10 am - 11 am
Meet at He-Tin-Kis Park
Wild Pacific Trail (opening ceremony site), Ucluelet
with the Raincoast Education Society
Our backyard is a lush coastal temperate rainforest, complete with rain, large coniferous trees with moss-laden branches, nurse logs and much, much more! Discover some of the ‘ingredients’ that make this ecosystem so unique. Meet two of our Raincoast Education Society naturalists at the Amphitrite Point parking lot for a 60 minute walk. Please bring appropriate outdoor gear; sturdy shoes recommended gumboots not necessary. Thank you Raincoast Education Society!
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.
Casual Coffee & Book Signing
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 11 am - 12:30 pm
Wild Heather Books, Ucluelet
with award winning journalist & author Alanna Mitchell,
as part of the Sea Change Series
Alanna Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author of Sea Sick: The Global Ocean In Crisis. Her literary non-fiction wins praise for its ability to describe complex ideas in plain language. Mitchell's subjects are science, education and human behaviour and she is known for her strong narrative style. Join Alanna for coffee, and an informal opportunity to chat about her book, what happened at Copenhagen, and the world at large! A great lead-up to her presentation at 4pm in Tofino.
Storytelling with artist Roy Henry Vickers
Saturday, March 13, 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.
Traditional Cedar Weaving: Hands-on Workshop
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 12 noon
The Legion, Tofino
with First Nations Weavers and Artists Rose Wilson & Molly Haipee
Make a take-home cedar creation using traditional techniques and learn about the history, preparation and uses of this coastal art form. Take part in making a community hat! Sponsored generously by the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust.
Annual Rubber Fish Race:
The tradition of fundraising fun continues!
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 2 pm
$3 each or $5 for 2 racing fish
Thornton Creek Hatchery, Port Albion
Sponsor racing rubber fish & prepare them for their race down the falls! Come join the folks at the hatchery for some refreshments, tour the hatchery and the watch the race. Win prizes for more than just winning! Place bets on your Community Fish, Corporate Fish or Personal Racing Fish! See if you can stump the resident fish experts or spot other wildlife. Join in the fun! Presented in cooperation with Thornton Creek Enhancement Society and Purple Dragon Don Jitsu.
Sea Change Series hosts Alanna Mitchell, author of international bestseller Sea Sick: The Global Ocean In Crisis
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 4pm
Clayoquot Community Theatre, Tofino
Admission at the door: $5.
Alanna Mitchell is a journalist who worked for daily newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, for 14 years and then quit to devote herself to writing books about popular science. Her latest is Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, which came out last year and has become an international bestseller. Alanna was named the best environmental reporter in the world by the World Conservation Union and the Reuters Foundation in 2000. Her book Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, gives us a window of understanding into the vast chemical changes in the world's oceans currently taking place caused by the hand of man. Alanna effectively translates the science for her audience, and her literary non-fiction wins praise for its ability to describe complex ideas in plain language. Mitchell's subjects are science, education and human behaviour and she is known for her strong narrative style.
Thank you to Tofino Sea Kayaking and The Paddler’s Inn.
Headwater @ Float Lounge
Saturday, March 13, 2010: 8pm
Black Rock Oceanfront Resort, Ucluelet
Live Acoustic Music & Whale Fest Volunteer Appreciation Event!
Admission $10 at the door / Volunteers in their PRWF shirts get in free!
Hearing Headwater is like listening to the West Coast of Canada in song. Freewheeling, fierce, sentimental and sexy, the Vancouver, B.C., quartet has earned its reputation as one of the finest acoustic roots groups around.
