Flow Festival
Artists for Water

After a poignant address given by Maude Barlow in the Kootenays, a powerful council of women formed to advocate for the public stewardship of our Water.  A joining of voices across BC protesting the sale of rivers to Independent Power Producers has resulted in a precedent-setting success at Pitt River. Women on Wild Water is mobilizing to do the same for the endangered Glacier/Howser Creek (and others), with an exciting event called the Flow Fest.

Flow Fest is a multidisciplinary arts & music festival scheduled for September 12th & 13th in Nelson and Valhalla, made up of world-class artists, musicians, youth, Wisdom Keepers and educators from across B.C. and Canada, raising their voices for Water.

Rather than simply counter-reacting to the goldrush sale of over 500 B.C. creeks and rivers to corporations, Flow Fest calls forward the possibilities of the future by using ART as an ACTivating medium. By exploring our creative responses as a community, Flow Fest not only engages the public's voice where it has been silenced, but commissions its artists and visionaries for new narratives on Conscious Energy Production.