Celebrate Blackfish Friday TOMORROW (Nov. 26th) with Skaana and Join Us for a Virtual Tour of the Royal BC Museum Exhibit: Orcas Our Shared Future (Friday, Dec. 3)
Celebrate Blackfish Friday TOMORROW (Nov. 26th) with Skaana and Join Us for a Virtual Tour of the Royal BC Museum Exhibit: Orcas Our Shared Future (Friday, Dec. 3)
And don't miss our new epic interview with legendary ocean warrior, Paul Watson
Hi. I hope this finds you happy, well and - if you’re in BC like most of our team - staying dry and coping with the fallout from our recent and continuing storms and floods. And Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends.
There’s a lot going on in Skaana-land to be thankful for — so here’s what’s happening…
VIRTUAL VISIT TO THE ROYAL BC MUSEUM: FRIDAY, DEC. 3
Skaana is hosting a virtual visit to the Royal BC Museum’s epic orca exhibit: Orcas: Our Shared Future for our Patreon patrons, past guests, staff and volunteers. It’s normally about $25 to visit the Royal BC Museum to see this epic exhibit and you have to get to Victoria.
But you can join us on Friday, Dec. 3 at 4 PM PST for a tour and a Q&A by becoming a Patreon patron and helping us make Skaana happen. Here’s the link https://www.patreon.com/skaana. Our starting rate for this special offer is only three bucks - a lot less than the cost of museum admission :)
As the guest curator of this awesome exhibit, I’ve been leading virtual tours for guests of all ages - from everywhere - since the exhibit opened. Now I’m leading a tour for YOU of an acclaimed exhibit that is set to TOUR THE WORLD!
The exhibit’s stars include the skeleton of Rhapsody who has been reassembled for display; life-sized replicas of three other J-Pod orcas - Ruffles, Slick and Scarlet - some truly awesome art and so much more!
Your support for this event is helping us pay for hosting this event (as there are costs involved with making this happen) and, hopefully, also helping us pay to keep making Skaana episodes. But our goal here… a gift of thanks to the people who help us share stories about orcas, oceans and the people fighting to protect them.
And speaking of the people saving orcas and oceans…
PAUL WATSON VISITS SKAANA!
I’m so thrilled to be sharing part one of our two-part interview with one of my personal heroes - the eco-warrior who changed my life by introducing me to the story of Moby Doll - Sea Shepherd founder, Captain Paul Watson.
Here’s the interview on iTunes: Sea Shepherd Captain, Paul Watson, on Seapiracies and the Smartest Species on Earth
And Spotify:
And it’s also on our website where, we’ve just discovered, A LOT of listeners are listening and downloading each of our interviews: https://www.skaana.org/paul-watson/
LISTEN LIVE TO ORCA STORIES: TOMORROW! FRIDAY AT 5 PM - REGISTER HERE FOR A ZOOM READING OF MY BOOK FOR ORCA FANS OF ALL AGES: ORCAS EVERYWHERE - BLACKFISH FRIDAY READING
This Friday at 5 pm PST I'll be answering orca questions and sharing stories from Orcas Everywhere and selections from my contribution to the Royal BC Museum's bestselling book: Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History.
Please register in advance at: https://uvic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcu-sqDspHNzasexWfwkW_7ZVpPajsd2i
This reading is hosted by the Skaana podcast and presented by the Canada Council's National Public Reading Program.
Thanks for reading and please feel free to share this news and this newsletter with orca fans everywhere.
Mark
HOLIDAY SHOPPING - ORCAS FOR EVERYONE
All my books are on sale now from your local bookstore. And please support your local bookstore. Or buy the audiobooks (I made, recorded and own all my own audiobooks :)) Orcas Everywhere is available on most audio platforms. For more information, visit orcaseverywhere.com.
Orcas Everywhere is for EVERYONE! Orcas Everywhere explores how humans around the world related to orcas in the past, how we relate to them now, and how we can keep cetacean communities alive and thriving.
Big Whales, Small World is a rhyming photographic board book that introduces young readers to blue whales bigger than dinosaurs and tiny vaquitas who swim close to shores.
Meet Onyx and the orcas of J pod, the world’s most famous whales. Illustrated with stunning photos, this picture book introduces young readers to the orcas humans first fell in love with.
The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale—a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them.
Orca Bites
Orca Bites is the newest podcast series from the Skaana team. Each short podcast features words of wisdom from scientists, activists, eco-philosophers, ocean warriors and friends of the planet.
Here we are on iTunes
And Spotify: