New Westminster youth will be part of the fun when the Fraser Up Your Watershed! Tour comes to the city on June 11.
Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright of the Artist Response Team (ART) are taking the tour to six communities in the Fraser basin: Prince George, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Lillooet, Mission and New West.
The New Westminster concert is set for Thursday, June 11 at the Anvil Centre.
Up Your Watershed! features the talents of the two professional musicians alongside students from New Westminster Secondary School and Qayqayt Elementary School, who have been practising songs since January in preparation for the event.
The community concert is designed to celebrate watershed stewardship, with a focus on positive action for wild salmon and climate change, including local riparian habitat restoration projects and recycling.
“Everyone lives in a watershed. Climate change is projected to have significant impacts on the greatest salmon river in the world – the Fraser,” a press release notes. “Restoring riparian habitats and recycling are ways that people can take local action to address a global problem, protect wild salmonids and reduce our carbon footprint.”
Admission is by donation, with a suggested donation of $10. Proceeds will go towards habitat restoration projects on the Brunette River.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the show at 7 p.m. The Anvil Centre is at 777 Columbia St.
For more details, search for Up Your Watershed! Fraser River concert tour on Facebook.
In connection with the event, there will also be a community recycling tire round-up on Saturday, June 13. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., people can drop tires off at the Kal Tire at 969 Cliveden Ave. so they can be responsibly recycled and made into things like playground surfaces.
