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Climate Art Workshop with Common Horizon Montréal

On April 6th, 2025, sword fern co-lead Victor facilitated a climate art workshop for Common Horizon Montréal. Common Horizon is a mass movement of working people who are coming together to fight for equity and to address climate change and affordability. The…

Chapter 3: Voices

Video courtesy Amélia Simard On February 26th 2025, sword fern collective hosted The Art of Change – Chapter 3: Voices at Chill x Studio. We built on the success of our past Art of Change events to have a participation-first choir night that…

Climate Collage Night with UBC ESSA

This event is part of the 2025 UBC Climate Emergency Week @ubcsustainability @ams_ubc @ubcclimatehub Are you into crafting and passionate about the future of climate change? 🖼️❄️☀️ Join the @swordfernco and @ubcessa for a chill creative evening of dialogue and climate collaging! Let’s get together…

Climate Collage Night

at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House Still working on those resolutions? Join the sword fern collective for a chill creative evening of dialogue and climate collaging! Let’s start the year thinking about the planet and our place in it. All supplies…

Regenerative new year

English It’s been a year. With the new year right around the corner, I invite you to join me in unpacking and processing through 2024 to get us in the right space for 2025. Now is the time to let…

Chapter 2: Words

Poetry to heal the world On June 27th, we hosted The Art of Change, Chapter 2: Words at Patagonia Vancouver. We built on the success of our first-ever event in February, Chapter One: Sounds, to explore how poetry, spoken word, and creative writing could…

Chapter 1: Sounds

What does change sound like? Our theory of change is that building personal capacity is necessary for social transformation. And if we want our communities to thrive, we also need to connect people with their positionality, their community, and personal…

The Hearth: Climate avoidance

Are you coping with the climate crisis by actually just, like, not? Why not try attending our 1 hour online creative workshop on Thursday, November 23 for a cool (or heated?) discussion instead? Let’s talk about what feelings we’re avoiding,…