Earthfest is a two-day long event featuring tabling, workshops,
conversations, poetry, music, and filmscreenings. Together, these will
address a wide range of issues relating to sustainability, environmentalisms,
and activisms.

Organised annually by the University of Victoria Sustainability Project
(UVSP), the aim of Earthfest this year is to create space for people and
groups to share a broad diversity of perspectives on how to confront,
resist, and challenge the many environmental, social, and colonial
injustices that continue to threaten the people, communities, lands, and
species of the Earth.

Taking place on unceded Indigenous territory of the WSANEC (Saanich),
Lekwungen (Songhees) and Esquimalt Peoples of the Coast Salish Nation, this
event is caught in an ongoing colonial process that has its roots in
relatively recent history that continues to this day. Exactly what this
means for campus sustainability is unclear; but we hope that by
acknowledging, listening, and learning to discuss this complex, systemic
injustice openly and publicly together, Earthfest participants will help
change how sustainability and environmentalisms are understood and approached
on campus and in our communities.