As we shift gears and move into a new season, we want to share and celebrate the beauty that came with spring and summer. Each season carries with it an opportunity to reset and to create memories from new adventures. Here’s a few of ours! You can also read through...
In Alert Bay, a community garden is not only feeding the community, but empowering youth. By Josh Kozelj, a freelance journalist and was the inaugural Hummingbird fellow with The Tyee. The boy had never used a rake, planted a seed or combed through mushy, brown dirt...
celebrating leadership in sustainable, equitable, and socially just land use across BC At the 2024 Land Awards Gala, the Real Estate Foundation of BC (REFBC) presented awards to five projects and two individuals demonstrating exceptional leadership in sustainable,...
At Nawalakw, we celebrate the seasons of growth on this beautiful journey together. We continue to build our fluency through bak̕wa̱mk̓ala programs and we are proud of our language team who have been on their journey together through the University of Victoria’s...
Alert Bay youth – Gwimolas Hunt Cranmer and Giselle Alfred - recently returned from a 16-day East Coast journey with the Students on Ice Torngat Mountains Expedition. From their floating classroom they explored coastal Labrador, including the incredible Torngat...
We're happy to share our latest newsletter — Celebrating Successes filled with highlights from the last year and incredible experiences we get to have on this Nawalakw journey with our elders, staff, participants, and communities. Enjoy
Last week we celebrated our youth! We had students from Carleton University join us in presenting the documentary they created in collaboration with our Nawalakw youth to the community. Jessica Mountain, Giselle Alfred, Brennan Sawyer, and Lucy Whonnock worked...
“Keep your chin up and your nose clean, kid.” - Manhattan Melodrama (1934) According to a recent media report, in 2019 a B.C. non-profit donated a million hygiene products to people in need. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, they hit a million in a...
We have been so blessed by the loving people and generous companies that have come alongside us to support our vision and our work revitalizing the Kwak'wala language and culture. Through language and cultural programming, Nawalakw is committed to being a place of...