Orca Love Letters Party (& networking)
On 14 July, World Orca Day, people around the world are mailing handwritten letters to marine parks that hold Orca in captivity. Personal, care-centred, and impossible to ignore — one human voice at a time asking for change.
This is our moment to celebrate our voices and our efforts.
Join us to share your letter, hear others' stories, and connect with ocean advocates, nonprofits, Earth lawyers, scientists, and anyone who picked up a pen. Whether you wrote a letter, shared the campaign, or are just finding us now — you're welcome here.
We'll close with a conversation about how to make Orca Love Letters bigger, louder, and more beautiful next year.
What to expect: A relaxed, informal hour. Stories, introductions, and forward momentum. No agenda, no panels — just people who love Orca, want to know each other, and maybe collaborate together.
Not familiar with the campaign yet? Here's some info:
The Vision
More than 50 Orca are currently held in captivity around the world. The evidence of their suffering — psychological, physical, social — is extensive and well-documented. And yet they remain.
Petitions have been signed. Documentaries have been made. Legal challenges have been filed. Orca Love Letters tries something different: a simultaneous, global outpouring of handwritten personal letters, mailed on the same day to marine parks around the world, from people who simply cannot stay silent.
Handwritten. Personal. Impossible to automate, impossible to dismiss as a bot campaign. Each letter a singular human voice saying: we know, and we are watching, and we are asking you to do better.
This approach has precedent: craftivism — gentle, care-centred protest — has a documented history of moving decision-makers in ways that confrontation cannot. When a group of women embroidered and mailed fourteen handkerchiefs to fourteen board members asking for a living wage, it worked. Orca Love Letters stands in that tradition.
The Ask
On World Orca Day — July 14, 2026 — people around the world will mail a handwritten letter to a marine park holding captive orca. The letter can be personal, factual, emotional, brief, or detailed. It can be in any language. It needs only to be honest and to come from the heart.
Letter writers are also invited to share their letter on social media — reading it aloud, photographing it, or simply explaining why they wrote it — using the hashtag #OrcaLoveLetters.
The Goal
To make decision-makers at marine parks feel — in a physical, tangible way — the weight of public feeling about captive orca. To create a moment that is visually shareable, emotionally resonant, and impossible to reduce to a number. And to build a foundation of momentum for this campaign to grow larger every World Orca Day until the last captive orca is released to sanctuary.