Talking Stick Festival heads outdoors, online, with Plant Walk, April 29

You can explore Stanley Park virtually with ethnobotanist-artist T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss and the fest’s Margo Kane

Media artist, ethnobotanist, educator, and activist T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss leads the upcoming virtual Plant Walk in Stanley Park.

Talking Stick Festival, presented by Full Circle: First Nations Performance, unfolds over four sections for 2021 in conjunction with the four seasons. Spring Awakening runs from April 29 to May 1, for free, online. Plant Walk takes place April 29 at 6 pm PDT.

AS IT CELEBRATES the 20th anniversary of the Talking Stick Festival, Full Circle: First Nations Performance is bringing people together throughout 2021 around a symbolic fire each season. It all started in February with the Winter Lodge: Sitting with our Ancestors; next up is the warming fire of Spring Awakening, with free virtual events taking place from April 29 to May 1.

On April 29 at 6 pm PDT, the festival presents a Plant Walk with ethnobotanist T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss and festival artistic managing director Margo Kane.

A media artist, educator, and activist of Skwxwu7mesh/Stó:lō/ Hawaiian/Swiss ancestry, Wyss has been traditionally trained by Indigenous knowledge keepers and Elders. On a recent sunny day, she led Kane on a journey of botanical discovery throughout Stanley Park.

During this online experience, Wyss, who was the Vancouver Public Library's 2018 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence, shares her extensive plant and forest knowledge and discusses medicines, traditional teachings, and the interconnectedness of nature and the forest.

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