Earth Day at Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa
Everyone is invited to Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa’s first annual Earth Day Extravaganza! This is a community event open to everyone looking to celebrate the Earth, nature and sustainability in a fun, educational and festive setting.
Invite your family, friends and neighbours! But before we get into the details…
The challenge is on and we’re looking for you!
We’re going to see how many members we can recruit to join our group and how many Earth-friendly actions we can take – and we need your help! Click here to find out how to help the environment and be entered to WIN TWO FREE NIGHTS at Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa!
Daytime Activities: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Parkside’s atrium will be transformed into a family-friendly party with fun for everyone:
- Planting activities
- Face painting
- Colouring contests
- Movies
- Story times
- Crafts
Book Swap
On Earth Day we’re officially launching Parkside’s very first Book Swap! Bring any books you no longer want or need and discover what other literary treasures you’ll find! Reduce consumption save money and get to know other members of your community!
Evening Activities: 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
- Local academics & experts on the future of sustainability in British Columbia
- Art by Erica Messing and Catherine Gerus
- Wines by local vinters and beers from Vancouver Island Brewery
- Food catered and served by The Landing West Coast Grill and inspired by the 100-Mile Diet featuring locally-sourced & Ocean Wise appetizers
- Jazz music by The Doug Farr Quartet
- Educational LEED® green tours of Parkside
- Earth Day trivia challenges
Movie Showings & Times
There will also be films showing at Parkside’s movie theatre on Earth Day. Family movies begin at 1:00 pm.
If you wish, please join us in advance of the Lights Out Party for evening movie showings beginning with Plastic Planet at 5:00 pm.
To reserve your group’s seat, please RSVP to Crystal Auffray at crystal.auffray@aviawest.com or 250.361.1999 ext. 8159 with your group’s name and potential number in the group.
Children/Family
1:00 – 2:30 pm: Disneynature: Earth
90 minutes
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
An epic story of adventure starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in “earth.”
Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.
2:30 – 4:00 pm: March of the Penguins
80 minutes
Director: Luc Jacquet
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia.
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey-a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters.
A look at the annual journey of Emperor penguins as they march–single file–to their traditional breeding ground.
Time permitting: Arctic Tale
90 minutes
Directors: Adam Ravetch, Sarah Robertson
A real adventure in the coolest place on earth!
Set in the vast snow kingdom at the top of the world, Arctic Tale is a real-life adventure from the people who brought you March of the Penguins.
Join narrator Queen Latifah as she follows two very different Arctic creatures, Nanu, a polar bear cub, and Seela, the walrus pup.
Armed with only their natural instincts and mothers’ guidance, these inspiring animals face coutnless challlenges in a beautiful icebound world that is rapidly melting beneath them.
Adults
5:00pm – 6:30 pm: Plastic Planet
95 minutes
Director: Werner Boote
Werner Boote presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic.
He exhaustively examines the far-reaching effects of plastics on the environment. Can we curb our love for this ubiquitous material, or do we still need it despite the problems it causes?
Boote takes us on a journey around the globe, showing that plastics have become a threat for both environment and human health.
6:30 – 8:00 pm: Flow
93 minutes
Director: Irena Salina
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
8:00 – 9:30 pm: 11th Hour
95 minutes
Directors: Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen
The 11th Hour is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we’ve arrived at this moment – how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems and what we can do to change our course.
Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey, sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau and over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who discuss the most important issues that face our planet and people.
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.
Atrium Films – Throughout the day
1:00 – 4:00 pm: Planet Earth
50 minutes
Producers: Vanessa Berlowitz, Mark Brownlow, Andy Byatt, Huw Cordey, Jonny Keeling and Mark Linfield.
As of its release in early 2007, Planet Earth is quite simply the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. The series comprises eleven episodes, each of which features a global overview of a different habitat on Earth.
This 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated by Sir David Attenborough and sensibly organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat (mountains, caves, deserts, shallow seas, seasonal forests, etc.) until the entire planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights and sounds you’ll ever experience.
Without being overtly political, the series maintains a consistent and subtle emphasis on the urgent need for ongoing conservation, best illustrated by the plight of polar bears whose very behavior is changing (to accommodate life-threatening changes in their fast-melting habitat) in the wake of global warming-a phenomenon that this series appropriately presents as scientific fact. With this harsh reality as subtext, the series proceeds to accentuate the positive, delivering a seemingly endless variety of natural wonders.
4:00 – 7:00 pm: Baraka
97 minutes
Director: Ron Fricke
The word Baraka means “blessing” in several languages; watching this film, the viewer is blessed with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language.
Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory.
Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.” It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance.
For more information about any of the activities mentioned above, please contact Crystal Auffray at crystal.auffray@aviawest.com or 250.361.1999 ext. 8159.