Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) is pleased and excited to present the 6th annual SUSTAINABILITY HOME SHOW.

This year's theme is: LOCALIZE YOUR LIFE with an emphasis on local wisdom, local experts, local actions towards reducing our community's carbon footprint, and building local resilience.

Here are some of the special events and exhibits.

MAY 23 (FRIDAY) 7 - 9PM, Evening Presentation by Keynote Speakers:

+ Norm Harry with a Klahoose opening ceremony & traditional First Nations wisdom.
+ Delores Broten, Watershed Sentinel Editor, speaking on Local Sustainable Actions.
+ Eco-Youth Initiatives with audio & visual presentations by the next generation.
+ World Café Round Table where you can add your ideas towards building a resilient island community.

MAY 24 (SATURDAY) 10AM to 4PM, Exhibit Day: Indoor & outdoor booths full of ideas for cutting down your home energy costs, generating your own power, growing your own food, conserving water, reducing waste, and many other local solutions.

On Saturday, during the Home Show, there will be an abundance of great local food with lunch and snacks catered by Lisa-Jo & Joy. Don't miss Brent's all you can eat oysterbar with a workshop to tune-up your oyster shucking skills. Lots of children's fun learning activities, ECO-youth art displays, raffle basket draw, and hands-on demonstrations.

This event is happening at Manson's Community Hall, Friday & Saturday, May 23/24, come and join this special Cortes Island gathering.

To inquire about having a booth at the Home Show, or if you would like to volunteer with activities like childcare, show set-up, raffle ticket sales, etc; then please call Karen Perras 250-935-0175 ravenclanriseup.net OR
Sandra Wood 250-935-6676 sandrawoodtelus.net to chat about your ideas.

Further details on this event may be found at the Howling Wolf, April/May issue. Look at page 3 : YES! I CAN

The final program and details will be announced in a few more days !