Come join us for this Oceans Week event on Friday June the 11th at 2:00 pm PDT for a live reading with Mark Leiren-Young, Skaana host and author of the book Orcas Everywhere! For more info check out the Oceans Week Victoria website: https://www.oceansweekvictoria.ca/thursday-11th-under-the-sea

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Join us on Saturday June 13th at 4:00 pm PDT for an ocean art workshop with Skaana’s lovely producer Rayne Benu! This event will be a part of Oceans Week and is sure to be filled with creativity! For more info check out the Oceans week website https://www.oceansweekvictoria.ca/saturday-13th-sustainability  

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Join us on Sunday June 14th at 4:00 pm PDT for a live online viewing of “The Hundred-Year-Old Whale” as a part of oceans week! For more information visit the oceans week website https://www.oceansweekvictoria.ca/sunday-14th-salish-sea “Born in an era when whales were on everyone’s menu and her family members were being harpooned, then shot, then captured and put on display, Granny (J2) miraculously survived in the west coast waters for over a century as the world –…

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Come join us for this Oceans Week event on Friday June the 12th at 2:00 pm PDT for a live reading with Mark Leiren-Young, Skaana host and author of the book Orcas of the Salish Sea! For more info check out the Oceans Week Victoria website: https://www.oceansweekvictoria.ca/friday-12th-fun-facts

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For the moment the events page is under construction! That doesn’t mean we don’t have many events coming soon, especially with oceans week around the corner! So check back with us soon and watch the oceans week hashtag (#oceansweek and #oceansweekvictoria) for some more orcas and oceans filled fun!

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Robert Bateman Artist and Naturalist “A lot of doing art, and I guess anything, is perspiration rather than inspiration.” “All little kids like art and nature. I’ve never met a little kid who doesn’t like art and nature. But most normal human beings grow up around the age of 12 and go on to more grown up things. And I just have not grown up yet.” “If you’ve got an eye for it, nature is…

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Artist Robert Bateman talks about art, inspiration, teaching, the importance of hope and why we all need to spend more time in nature with Skaana (@skaanapod) host Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung). “If you’ve got an eye for it, nature is everywhere.” “One of my missions in life is to get get more kids out into nature.” Skaana podcasts connect you to news and experts and their discussions about oceans, orcas and the environment. You can use…

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Thanatologist Kriss Kevorkian (@agrievingworld) talks about environmental grief, coping with covid, why we need to laugh at tragedy and much more with Skaana (@skaanapod) host Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung). Kriss came up with the terms “environmental grief” and “ecological grief” and she developed these concepts by working with people working for the southern resident orcas. “I help support people who are dealing with environmental grief or ecological grief, or just the grief that people are feeling from all…

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Kriss Kevorkian Thanatologist The lessons I find from grief – and from death – are appreciating what we have in the now. “The lessons I find from grief – and from death – are appreciating what we have in the now.” “What is environmental grief? …It’s the grief reaction stemming from the environmental loss of ecosystems caused by natural or man-made events.” “Ecological grief is the grief reaction stemming from the disconnection and relational loss…

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Erich Hoyt (@erichhoyt) on his fight to end Russia’s orca trade, strange sea creatures, whale watching, cosmic orcas and more with Skaana (@Skaanapod) host Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung). Erich’s books include: Orca The Whale Called Killer; The Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises; Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises; Weird Sea Creatures and many, many more. This is our first two-part episode… in part one Erich talks about how he and the world fell in love…

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