Shared Wisdoms
An Intercultural storytelling experience
with Chief Wedlidi Speck and Kester Reid
E'iksan Traditional Territory
Black Creek
All are welcome
Free to attend, supported by
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Shared Wisdoms is a series of storytelling events hosted by Chief Wedlidi Speck and Kester Reid, supported by the K’ate’mot Cultural Society and Comox Valley Arts.
These seasonal events, begun in 2024, celebrate the rich threads connecting North Vancouver Island Salish-Kwakwaka’wakw and ancestral settler traditions. As a cultural exchange, these sessions bring old stories alive with their associated customs, cultural understandings, and participatory dialogue. Through guided work with the stories, your reflections, and your experience become part of a community inquiry into traditional knowledge, reciprocity, and reconciliation.
These gatherings are held on E’iksan traditional territory at the Black Creek Community Hall, or outdoors at traditional cultural sites such as Miracle Beach. Each session bears a theme, as follows:
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July 2024: Reciprocity as Culture.
January 2025: Dancing with the Fires of Winter
March 2025: SHE - the Feminine in Land-based Traditions with special guests JoAnna Restoule and Alysia Livesey
July 2025: HE -the Masculine in Land-based Traditions (POSTPONED)
September 2025: WE - Community in Land-based Traditions
As a community, we explore the cultural understandings carried by the stories, offering insight into important questions of belonging, community, reciprocity and reconciliation. Participants are invited to share their voice, and their perspective, as we inquire not only with the stories, but also with the land around us and the ways in which it participates in the old teachings of story.
These are intercultural events that value diverse perspectives and decolonizing inquiry. Bring your curiosity and an open heart, and please plan to stay for the duration of the event, 10am-3pm.
A snack lunch is offered to all guests. If you have dietary restrictions you are kindly requested to bring your own food.
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Dates and other registration details are released one month before each event. These events are free to attend, but space is limited, so registration is required below.
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Indigenous participants please register through Wedlidi.
