Join Elder Randy Fred of the Tseshaht First Nation for a creative writing workshop and spirit walk in Vanier Park (sen̓áḵw/sən̓aʔqʷ). This is more than just writing. It is a chance to reflect, listen, and share stories that help with healing and understanding.
The day includes guided writing exercises to explore your connection to the land and its history. After that, we will take a spirit walk through the park to quietly connect with the land and its stories. The workshop ends with a shared meal and time to share and listen to personal stories.
The workshop is open to everyone, including writers, educators, and anyone interested in Truth and Reconciliation. Whether you are new to writing or have experience, this workshop will help you explore these important themes.
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 10:00am-3:00pm
Tickets:
$110 General Admission
$100 MOV Members, Students and Seniors
$90 Indigenous and Teachers
(plus fees and taxes)
Teachers include any teacher, professor, teaching interns, teacher in-training, and other educational facilitators who are looking for more guidance on writing about TRC.
Please note that photos or video may be captured at this event and used for promotional or reporting purposes. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let organizers know.
If tickets are sold out and you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email programs@museumofvancouver.ca
About the Facilitator
Randy Fred
Randy is a writer, artist, film producer, and an Elder of Tseshat First Nation. He has written and helped publish numerous Indigenous stories and worked on several film projects, including a documentary on the Alberni Indian Residential School court cases. Randy is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Geist Foundation.
Partners
Geist Magazine
Beginning in the living room of founders Stephen Osborne and Mary Schendlinger, Geist Magazine was established to be articulate, humorous and identifiably Canadian, while focusing on the art and politics of narrative. Geist publishes narrative essays (fiction and non-fiction), poetry, reviews, photography, drawings, comix, puzzles and little-known facts—with a special interest in fresh interactions between text and image, and with a mandate to find and encourage a wide audience for new and established Canadian writers and artists of merit.
Over the course of the magazine's nearly 35-year history, Geist has published the work of more than 1,500 emerging and established writers and artists from across the country, many of whom were published for the first time in the pages of Geist.