The Metropolis of Fort St. John acquired a $5,000 grant from the Authorities of BC, via BC Wholesome Communities and the PlanH program, to help the creation of more healthy communities via assets, practices and studying alternatives focussed on folks, society and the surroundings.
This grant funding shall be used to help a program designed by Catherine Ruddell of Creatively Sustained to convey youth collectively to attach the neighborhood to their neighbours, neighbourhoods, and the native surroundings, referred to as “We Develop Rainbows.”
This system goals to handle and alter the narrative round what meals sustainability seems like in our Northern distant space. Via this interactive expertise, youth individuals will full month-to-month actions the place they’ll plan, develop, plant, develop, keep gardens, harvest, and put together meals. This system construction will introduce individuals to a rhythm aligned with nature’s life cycles and permit them to watch and join with broader ideas of meals sustainability.
We Develop Rainbows symbolizes a protected and generative house for numerous neighborhood members to collect and be taught with and from each other, starting with a youth participant focus. Catherine Ruddell conceived of this backyard programming as a approach to adapt and ship a decolonial framework referred to as Cultivating Secure Area (CSS). The challenge additionally encourages collaboration throughout a number of sectors and creates collaborative approaches with native Well being Care, First Nations Communities, BC Schooling, and different native teams.
Further particulars shall be introduced with the discharge of the Fall 2023 Recreation and Leisure Information on September 1. If teams want to be concerned on this program or want to obtain studying outcomes and neighborhood planning info, please attain out to the Metropolis’s Arts and Tradition crew at arts-culture@fortstjohn.ca.
To be taught extra about BC Well being Communities, go to www.planh.ca.
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