Support for Community Infrastructure and Programming

Gathering Spaces

We support community-led construction of structures in places of cultural and ecological significance in order to revitalise connection and stewardship. 

The first cabin that we collaborated on was built by six women in 2016 through the Musgamagw Dzawada̱’enux̱w Tribal Council. It was a split cedar shack based on designs for an old hand loggers cabin. Two of the women involved in the project, Lindsey Willie and Jenni Schine, produced a documentary film about the process. The Kingcome Collective and film Awaḵ̕wa̱s: Gathering Place. Learn More →

Another structure that Sea to Cedar supported, in collaboration with Nawalakw, was the building of an Awaḵ̕wa̱s on Musgamagw Dzawada̱’enux̱w territory in an old village site in a remote estuary on the mainland of British Columbia’s south-central coast. The Awaḵ̕wa̱s is a shelter and gathering space for community use. 

Food Security and Food Infrastructure

Food security is a developing program area for us. It has grown out of interest shown by local northern Vancouver Island communities to increase their community access to healthy and local foods. 

Most of the communities that we work with are remote - located on small islands off the northern end of Vancouver Island. For these communities, interruptions in food transport systems is a real threat and a motivating factor in tackling community food security issues and improving local food security infrastructure.