For Immediate Release: Swim Drink Fish Canada Presents the Waterkeeper Showcase at Wolfe Island Music Festival
WOLFE ISLAND — Swim Drink Fish Canada will host the Waterkeeper Showcase on the main stage of the Wolfe Island Music Festival on Friday August 11th. The Waterkeeper Showcase will be hosted by Swim Drink Fish President Mark Mattson. Performing artists include Said The Whale, YOUR BOY, The Kents, and Lou Canon.
Watermark Project, a Swim Drink Fish initiative, is the primary focus of the Waterkeeper Showcase. Artists and attendees alike will be encouraged to share their favourite water memories throughout the festival by visiting the Watermark Project booth in the vendor village. Anyone can share a water memory online at www.watermarproject.ca/submit.
The showcase is the last event of the Kingston and Wolfe Island Culture Festival organized by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and made possible by the generous support of Ontario150.
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“We have always recognized and celebrated the unique relationship between art and the environment. We are grateful to have this opportunity to celebrate with these great artists and engage with all the attendees throughout the festival. Mark Mattson, President and Co-Founder, Swim Drink Fish Canada
Links:
MyWatermark: The Kents (Video)
Swim Drink Fish Canada presents The Kents at the Wolfe Island Music Festival on Friday, August 11th. Watermark Project caught up with them to talk about .... (continued)
Nith River, Ontario - Lou Canon
"My most vivid water memory is not of the big ocean, of which I'm terrified, but of a small pastoral stream, behind my childhood home, meandering through.... (continued)
Background:
Swim Drink Canada is a registered charity that uses law, science, culture, and digital media to protect a swimmable, drinkable, fishable future.
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is a regional program that promotes water literacy and informed decision-making to ensure a swimmable, drinkable, fishable watershed.
Watermark Project documents and shares the ways in which people experience water, to remind and encourage themselves and others on the importance of safeguarding swimmable,drinkable, fishable communities.
Kingston & Wolfe Island Culture Festival is a celebration of Great Lakes Voices. The Seven week long festival showcasing how Kingston & Wolfe Island exemplify all that the Great Lakes can provide in a swimmable, drinkable, fishable future. The festival is sponsored in part by a grant from Ontario150.
Contact:
Rebecca Harrison 905-999-5479
rebecca@waterkeeper.ca / www.waterkeeper.ca/culturefest