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Ocean Week Victoria Celebrates Our Big Blue Backyard

Ocean Week Victoria Celebrates Our Big Blue Backyard

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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.

2022 CALENDAR
 

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We are excited to celebrate a 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!

CELEBRATE AND EXPLORE

OCEAN WEEK VICTORIA

JUNE 2023

Stay tuned for Join the Wave workshops in early 2023.

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Thank you to all who participated in Ocean Week Victoria 2022!

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WORLD OCEANS 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 everythi