Earth Week 2025

What better week to celebration the promise of renewal and hope that is Easter than one that is also Earth Week! Earth week 2025 runs from April 20-27th.

Consider participating in some of the exciting national and local events happening below, as together, we are "called by earth and sky" to protect this, our "sacred living trust."

For the Love of Creation

From April 20-27, For the Love of Creation is marking Earth Week 2025 with Together for the Love of Creation. We invite all faith communities to be part of Earth Week and join with others across the country to engage in praying, learning, or acting for climate justice! This coming together for the love of Creation is a way to connect, grow, listen, inspire hope, and affect change

For the Love of Creation - Interactive Map of Earth Week Events Across Canada

For the Love of Creation - List and Schedule of National Events for Earth Week 2025

Seniors for Climate Action Now - Tantramar (SCAN -T)

April 22 Rally Details and Location in Fredricton

As we are facing a climate emergency, it is all the more obvious that we cannot sit back and wait for others to act.  Everyone has a role to play in advocating, both as individuals and as communities, for phasing out the use of fossil fuels and for a just transition to renewable power and clean energy.  As part of the national and provincial Seniors for Climate Action Now! movement, a local chapter has been organized and we ask for your help and support.  First, we are creating a network of local people, not just seniors, with whom we can share climate change information specifically related to Tantramar. 

Our email address is: scantantramar@gmail.com and we invite you to be in touch with us so that we can keep you informed and share news about your own climate actions and efforts.  Secondly, the national organization has decided to make Earth Day (Tuesday, April 22) the next opportunity for calls to action.  Events will also take place across the country throughout the week of April 21-25 and NB groups are planning a huge Rally in Fredericton on Earth Day!  SAVE THE DATE!  Finally, if you would like more information about what Seniors for Climate Action Now! are doing, please go to their website: seniorsforclimate.org

Voices from a Scorched Earth - Struts Gallery, Sackville

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Voices from Scorched Earth

Testimony from El Estor, Q’eqchi’ territory 

with Paydirt Artists in Residence Styvens Barrios Loch & Romi Fischer-Schmidt

Tuesday, April 22, 7pm

Struts Gallery

El Estor, a community on Maya Q’eqchi’ territory (Guatemala), is the epicenter of a sixty-year struggle against a nickel mining company locally known as la empresa. Since 1960, Canadian mining corporations have funded deadly destruction through many means: INCO lobbied the military government to alter the Guatemalan constitution to allow for open pit mining and, counter to the resistance from Maya Q’eqchi’ people, established la empresa. The same mining company, in 1978, was involved in the first of the 626 massacres of Maya people that took place during Guatemala's civil war (1960-1996). In 2004, Sky Resources purchased la empresa, and collaborated with police, military and security to evict Q’eqchi’ people from their lands. All the while, the mountainside jungle, Q’eqchi’ village sites, and water sources are blown up and sent away to be sold, leaving a barren red scar. There is no succinct way of describing how profoundly disruptive it is to the Indigenous eco-cultural fabric of El Estor. Today, with the looming threat of the Río Nickel mining project by Montreal-based company ‘Central America Nickel Inc.,’ the community is mounting a blockade. 

Having established relationships with the community of El Estor over the past six years, media artists and musicians, Styvens Barrios Loch and Romi Fischer-Schmidt, aim to communicate the struggle of Maya Q’eqchi’ people in one of many mining industry sacrifice zones. Come hear them talk about their recent visit to El Estor and present elements of their practice, which fuses community-based participatory research with music and audiovisual creation.

Styvens Barrios Loch and Romi Fischer-Schmidt are an emerging queer transnational musical duo taking aim at transnational corporate mining and its ties with Guatemalan and imperial militarizing and policing apparatuses. Styvens is a Guatemalan cellist, musical historian and archivist. Romi is a multi-instrumentalist, activist and media artist settler born in Tkaronto. Styvens and Romi are the Paydirt Artists in Residence.