Understories is our creative laboratory for community innovation, focused on testing smaller-scale ideas and events. These events are scrappy, experimental, and quickly deployed, often with very limited budget and resourcing.
The understories model gives us room for creativity, experimentation, and for failure! We learn a lot from each understories events. Some events, such as MULCH, started off as a one-off understories experiment!
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Sea Level Ride
On July 6th, 2025, sword fern collective co-leads Paige and Erica are hosting a group bike ride throughout Richmond around places that are at risk from sea level rise. This…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Hearth: an evening of Climate Hope and Community
Feeling the blues from bad climate news? Join us for a night of climate hope and community with The Hearth, by Sword Fern Collective on Sep 12 from 9pm to…