EMERGENCE: Women of the Storm Film Screening and Mini Climate Fair
3:00-3:45 | Welcome to the Mini Climate Fair
3:45-4:40 | Climate Adaptation: Preparing Vancouver’s Workforce for Coastal Reality
The Pacific Northwest faces immediate climate risks: sea level rise, extreme weather, infrastructure vulnerability. Resilience has become an operational necessity. The panel will explore how organizations need to respond to physical climate risks, what new roles and capabilities are emerging, and what workforce skills are needed to execute resilience strategies at scale.
5:00-5:55 | Canada's Climate Contradiction: Talking Green While Expanding Fossil Fuels
Canada and BC speak the language of climate leadership while supporting fossil fuel expansion. Is financial and political instability being used to fast-track fossil fuel infrastructure in the name of national sovereignty? Meanwhile, market-based carbon solutions (e.g., carbon credits) are being used to greenwash extractivism. This panel brings together advocacy, research, media, Indigenous rights, and voice to discuss how to meet the current moment and build a climate-just future. We invite speakers to examine policy greenwashing, discuss structural changes, and explore what communities can do to reject false solutions.
6:00 - 8:00 pm - Film Screening
Join local award-winning directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper for a screening of their latest feature documentary film, EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm (2026), with a Q & A session to follow.
Climate change is here. As heat domes, atmospheric rivers and wildfires reshape our world, how do we protect what matters most? EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm goes beyond the headlines to explore how women are navigating climate emergencies.
Recent disasters, including the wildfire that burned the town of Lytton to the ground and the devastating floods in the Fraser Valley, are seen through the eyes of survivors, while emergency responders and community organizers provide perspectives on preparing for – and moving beyond – the worst. Meghan Fandrich’s reflective readings from Burning Sage: Poems from the Lytton Fire, written after losing her town to the blaze, are woven together with stories of healing, resilience and hope in the face of an uncertain future.
Intimate and beautifully crafted, the film offers insights on how to live in this new reality, finding ways to carry on without giving up
Watch the trailer here.
Rating: PG
Runtime: 85 mins
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Presented in partnership with PNW Climate Week and climate fair participants, CityHive Vancouver, UBC Centre for Climate Justice and others soon to be announced.
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