Join Skaana's Pod & Meet the Awesome Orcas at the Royal BC Museum
Skaana's First Patreon "Special Offer" - a Virtual Tour of Orcas: Our Shared Future
Hi! I hope this finds you happy, healthy and vaccinated!
One of the coolest things I’ve been doing this summer is leading virtual tours of the Royal BC Museum’s amazing new exhibit - Orcas: Our Shared Future - for students and other groups of orca-lovers across Canada.
So why am I leading the tours? ‘cause I wrote the exhibit. So on July 30th at 4 pm PST I’ve booked my own tour to thank our sponsors and our team. If you’d like to join the tour, just join our Patreon pod to help us pay for our virtual visit - 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 :)
Here’s the scoop: Thanks to my book, The Killer Whale Who Changed the World, I was brought in to consult on the exhibit and write the main gallery text. And, as a consultant, I urged the museum to feature some of my favourite whales. And this exhibit is set to tour the world!
The exhibit’s stars include Rhapsody (above) 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!
And if you’d like to spend more time behind the scenes of the exhibit, please check out our interview with the curator of vertebrate zoology - Dr. Gavin Hanke - as he shares the story of Rhapsody on the latest episode of Skaana.
You can listen on:
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/skaana-orcas-and-oceans-podcast/id1232220512?i=1000524164088
Spotify
And our home page: https://www.skaana.org/
We’ve also got a couple of amazing videos of Gavin and Rhapsody that just went live on YouTube.
I hope you enjoy meeting Rhapsody - and Gavin - and that you’ll be joining our pod and our virtual tour!
Mark
Book ‘em
All my books are on sale now from your local bookstore. And please support your local bookstore. Or buy the audiobooks (I made and own my own audiobooks :))
Orcas Everywhere is also 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 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.