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CELEBRATE AND EXPLORE

OCEAN WEEK VICTORIA

JUNE 2 - 11, 2023

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OCEAN WEEK VICTORIA
is on NOW!

Check out the 2023 Calendar of Events for family friendly activities, Ocean Week festivals, evening socials, Kayak tours, and more! 

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ABOUT

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Ocean Week Victoria is a collaboration among local community organizations to help people learn and care about their big blue backyard. Ocean Week events include educational and recreational activities that explore and interact with our oceans.

Check out
the 2023
Calendar!

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We are excited to celebrate another hybrid Ocean Week this year! Our Activity Calendar has in-person and virtual events, fun activities, and resources for all ages.

There are lots of opportunities to get involved!

VIDEO LIBRARY

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Our video library showcases work from our community's students, organizations, businesses, and more! Be sure to watch all the amazing videos that were created just for Ocean Week Victoria!

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WORLD OCEAN DAY

Ocean Week Victoria is a volunteer initiative to bring our wider community together around World Oceans Day (WOD). 

 

The celebration of World Oceans Day dates back to the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit. Here, a team from Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) proposed an annual Oceans Day to create a voice for the oceans, to empower those who live and work in coastal communities, and to strengthen the management and stewardship of the oceans.

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Each year, the United Nations selects a theme to engage the global community. This year’s theme is “Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean—Shedding light on the communities, ideas, and solutions that are working together to protect and revitalize the ocean and everything it sustains.” 

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Acknowledgement

We acknowledge and respect the Lekwungen-speaking Peoples on whose traditional and unceded territories we work, plan and play, and the Songhees, Esquimalt,

T’Sou-ke, WSANEC and other First Nations peoples whose historical relationships with the land and ocean continue to this day.

 

We hope and intend that this shared Ocean Week Victoria initiative will grow and develop in ways that are respectful and inclusive of all peoples and cultures who come together on the southern end of Vancouver Island.  

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A Sign of Lekwungen, one of seven carvings that mark places of cultural significance to the First Peoples in Victoria.
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OUR MISSION

OUR MISSION
To build community partnerships and support local events and activities that celebrate World Oceans Day.

The ocean means many things to many people.

We eat from it.

We work and play on and in it.

It supplies most of our oxygen.

We get our weather from it,

no matter where we live.

And it contains somewhere between

500,000 and 10 million marine species.

We, and all life on this planet,

need a healthy global ocean.

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