2019 Oceans Week Archive
Short Film created for the Ocean Week HFX 2019. An annual event taking place in the heart of Halifax, NS from June 1st to 9th.
2019 Events
2019 Poster
Poster by Hannah Emmett: http://www.hannah-emmett.com/
We will kick-off the clean up at SUP Monkey (Paddler's Cove, Lake Banook) at 3pm with boards, paddles, life jackets, bags and gloves supplied by SUP Monkey.
Sunday June 9th: Boat Tour & Picnic to Coffin Island A W.O.W. EXCLUSIVE EXPERIENCE!
Community members will take to Cow Bay Beach on Sunday June 9th for a morning clean up followed by a BBQ picnic and prizes provided by Kannon Beach and Brother Clothing.
How to make your own waste free hygiene products (toothpaste/deodorant)
Celebrate Environment Week and Oceans Week by helping clean up McNabs Island Provincial Park!
The Surfing Association of Nova Scotia presents their annual beach clean up.
Saturday June 8th World Oceans Day Celebrations SURF-abration will be back with a twist or two for you to make a splash! We're getting INTO the ocean - come along! It's FREE - stay and play in the ocean with us.
In celebration of Oceans Week HFX and World Oceans Day, Torpedo Rays Scuba Adventures SeaFoxes’ Ladies Dive Club and the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) invite you to Dive Against Debris at Terence Bay Wharf along Nova Scotia’s iconic Lighthouse Route.
Ribbon cutting, games, stories, food, music, education, speeches (by district councillors)
10am – 12pm: Lunenburg Town & Shoreline Cleanup @ Coastal Action Office (37 Tannery Road)
1pm – 4pm: Waterfront Event – Booths & Activities @ Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
We are celebrating World Oceans Day with a paddling beach clean-up adventure in the LaHave Islands! Come join us! We will meet on the mainland and paddle to the beaches of Cape LaHave Island, removing any garbage we find along the way.
Come visit this miniature marine interpretive centre featuring two large touch tanks filled with local intertidal life.
We will be at the Alderney Landing Farmers Market hosting a litter clean-up along the shoreline and talking about the effects of litter in our oceans & waterways.
15th Annual Elisabeth Mann Borgese Lecture. Keynote Speaker…
The Ocean and You event will feature a wide variety of field experts and interactions for all ages. Visitors will learn about protecting the ocean through informative and educational displays.
Preschools from around Halifax (and any other waterfront visitors!) are invited to join us for an outdoor celebration where we release "bubbles not balloons" to celebrate our love for our ocean.
On June 7, 2019, MAPC will be highlighting fishing pressure (intentional and not), underwater noise, loss of prey availability, marine pollution, ocean acidification and more. Act as your favourite sea creature and experience the marine world through their eyes as we transform the gazebo and bring the underwater on land.
Patagonia in partnership with Alexander Keith's is hosting a screening of the movie Artifishal and a social gathering in the brewery courtyard. We will have ocean inspired art on display, beer samples and a host of booths promoting sustainable ocean and fishery groups
On-lookers will have a chance to experience how they perform animal collections. They will be encouraged to ask questions, make observations and learn more about the invertebrates that live in our shorelines.
The purpose of this informative and celebratory event is to heighten public awareness, general acknowledgement and appreciation about the fundamental value that the Bras d'Or Lake possesses for all Nova Scotian’s. As World Oceans Day is being celebrated on June 8th, we consider this a special occasion for Cape Breton Island's own participation in this world-wide event.
Plastic Ocean screening: "If it was happening in one gyre, they suspected it was happening in all of them. But the filmmakers needed experts to prove it.
Waste talk: Crash course on recycling: what goes where, potential to include at home composting waste reduction component.
Hosted by Blue Line Initiative, this event will answer your questions on how Halifax is navigating the threat of sea level rise.
Love oceans and bikes? Then this event is for you! Join us for an easy coastal ride along the Halifax Waterfront.
Live vicariously as a seafloor habitat mapper through Jillian while she describes her experiences as a cartography graduate and research assistant intern working on several recent projects and other innovative case studies that the Applied Oceans Research team is involved in.
The Halifax Freediving Club will host a free, public screening of the documentary film "Dolphin Man".
For Oceans Weeks 2019 ShARCC is proud to team up with Greenpeace Halifax to host a screening of SHARKWATER Extinction.
Come join Interdisciplinary PhD candidate and artist Jennifer MacLatchy and marine scientist Alexandra Vance in discussing this important issue of plastic in our oceans.
Poster by Hannah Emmett: http://www.hannah-emmett.com/
There will be a film screening, drinks, snacks, prizes and games. Celebrating the end of Oceans Week HFX and giving thanks to all of the volunteers and supporters who made it all possible! More details to come.