Whether you live in the Village or the wider Comox Valley or beyond…
Join us for a week-long celebration of environmental learning, hands-on stewardship, creative exploration, and community collaboration with the Cumberland Forest and friends from across the Village and beyond!
Earth Week Festival 2026 schedule is here!
See below for free and registered events between April 18-26th.
This list is not exhaustive!
Keep your eyes out for other awesome events across the region in celebration of the Earth!
All April (except 25 & 26)
Love Where You Live: Park Clean Up and Scavenger Hunt
Time: Anytime!
Location: Cumberland Lake Park.
🌿 How to participate:
• Register at the kiosk to review safety guidelines, borrow trash‑grabber tools, and be entered for additional prizes
• Pick up litter, weed the garden beds, or rake leaves
• Keep an eye out for Lake Park Society capsules hidden around the park – find one to win a gift voucher to a local business
Let’s work together to keep our park beautiful and healthy!
All Week (19th - 25th)
Forest Scavenger Hunt
Time: Anytime!
Location: Cumberland Lake Park.
Pick up & drop off at Worthy room, Amazing prizes from Smol Store!
Saturday April 18
Foveo Earth Day Run - fundraiser for Project Watershed
11:00 am start. 5k & 10k. Presented by Foveo Running and Saucony
Registration required.
Celebrate Earth Day with a trail run through the Seal Bay Nature Park, located in the Comox Valley.
Our grassroots event will feature a live DJ, prizes, post-run pancakes and a well-marked course through the gorgeous Seal Bay Nature Park. Plenty of high-fives and good vibes all day!
Sunday April 19
Middle Earth Site Walk and Talk with Tal Engel and Wolf Tree Forest Rehabilitation
1:00 - 3:00 pm, Suggested $20, Pay What You Want, spaces limited.
WolfTree is dedicated to the art and science of rehabilitating degraded forest ecosystems. It was born from an understanding that only diverse, complex, and functional ecosystems stand a chance in the face of the dire climate and biodiversity crises that are upon us. This is a great way to learn about some of the ways we might actively restore ecological health and wildfire resilience in this highly altered forest landscape.
Monday April 20
Wild Medicinal Plant Walk with Amanda Howe
4:30 - 6:00 pm, Suggested $20, Pay What You Want, spaces limited.
Rendezvous at Japanese #1 Townsite. Max 15 participants.
Join us for a fascinating walk and discover the rich variety of wild medicinal plants growing in the forests and meadows surrounding the village of Cumberland. You’ll discover medicinal plants that have been used for thousands of years as wound healers, to soothe stomach aches, to build bones and settle fevers. Plants that ease aching joints and lift the spirits. Learn some simple recipes to use this plant medicine at home. Plants for bees, bears, deer and innumerable other beings living in complex relationships we can hardly begin to imagine!
Amanda Howe has been a Herbalist for over forty years. She’s passionate about herbs and herbal medicine and about sharing the connection with the natural world that can be found through connecting with and learning about the healing power of plants.
Tuesday April 21
Placekeeping Grief - Exploring Altered Landscapes
4-6pm, Perseverance Creek Park
Presented in partnership with the Comox Valley Art Gallery current exhibition Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving – Join storyteller, community historian, and CCFS ED Meaghan Cursons for a site-based exploration of the altered landscape of the Perseverance Creek corridor. Unearth stories of human and animal displacement, resource extraction, floods, fires, and loss as we witness nature in this liminal space between harm and healing, ruin and recovery.
Wednesday April 22
Intentional Storytelling through Photography
3:00-5:00 pm, Suggested $20, Pay What You Want, spaces limited.
Guided by Arleta (Yellow Petal Photo) and Meredith (Meredith Rose Photography)
During our workshop, we will meet to connect and explore, our cameras and the Land, the stories of the past, present and future that have shaped the ecosystem. We will discuss the concept of intentional storytelling and how it relates to photography with a focus on developing our stories through mindfulness, curiosity, and tapping into our senses. No technical experience necessary. All levels of photography skills are welcome. All ages are welcome! Max 20 people (by donation for the fundraiser- minimum $25?)
Wednesday April 22
Strathcona Wilderness Institute AGM
7:00-9:00 pm
Strathcona Wilderness Institute holds its AGM on April 22nd in the Evergreen Lounge of the Filberg Centre at 7:00 pm in conjunction with a presentation by Eryn Tombu-Haigh on her ascents of all 53 of the “6000 ft” Peaks on Vancouver Island
Thursday April 23
Early Years Earth Day Celebration!
10:30am-Noon
Earth Day event for Early Years families on April 23rd, 1030am – 12pm, at Ready, Set, Connect! at Cumberland Recreation. Vanessa, owner of Smol store, will be there facilitating a craft, colouring, snacks and storytime – all focused on earth week.
Thursday April 23
Another Take on Biodiverisity in the Cumberland Forest with Kent Brothers
4:00-6:00 pm, Suggested $20, Pay What You Want, spaces limited.
Kent Brothers is an amateur mycologist who has had a keen interest in biodiversity in general and macrofungi in particular for 25 years, not only in the Pacific Northwest but also in the neotropics. Through guided walks in forests he enjoys sharing knowledge of the extensive diversity of fungi in ecosystems and the valuable roles that they play in the environment.
Friday April 24
Council of the Forest
4:00 - 7:00pm. Facilitated by Charles Morse. Free, spaces limited.
In this workshop, we engage in a variation of the Council of All Beings, a practice developed by visionary ecological activists Joanna Macy and John Seed. The council invites us to set aside our human identities to inhabit and speak on behalf of other species, deepening our sense of belonging to and responsibility for our Earth community. Lively. Playful. Profound. The council is medicine for times of disconnection.
Charles Morse is an educator and depth psychologist based in Cumberland. A former organic farmer, his passion lies at the intersection of ecology, psychology, and creativity. He currently teaches on psyche and nature at the Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Jung Archademy.
Saturday April 25
Bird Walk with Jack Bindernagel
8:30 am, Suggested $20, Pay What You Want, spaces limited.
Meet at Cumberland Marsh parking lot.
A slow-paced spring bird walk, hopefully focusing on our returning migratory songbirds, all experience levels welcome.
Saturday April 25
Cumberland Community Schools Society Repair Cafe
FREE CCSS Repair Cafe April 25, 11-3. Cumberland Community School 2674 Winderemere Ave
Don’t toss it—fix it at the 4th Annual Repair Café! Before you head to the landfill, bring your broken items to the Repair Cafe and give your favorite belongings a second life. Do you have a knack for fixing things? Whether you’re a master of small appliances, a sewing superstar, a bike mechanic, or a jewelry repair whiz, we would love your help! To join our community of fixers, email coordinator@ccssociety.org
Saturday April 25
Weird Cinema - My Octopus Teacher
FREE Doors open at 6:30. Bring Donation for the Weird Church Red Roof Replacement Fund
2688 Penrith Avenue
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never before seen bond between human and wild animal.
Sunday April 26
Intentional Storytelling through Photography
2:00-4:00 pm (!! updated time!!) Suggested $20, Pay What You Want, spaces limited.
Guided by Arleta (Yellow Petal Photo) and Meredith (Meredith Rose Photography)
During our workshop, we will meet to connect and explore, our cameras and the Land, the stories of the past, present and future that have shaped the ecosystem. We will discuss the concept of intentional storytelling and how it relates to photography with a focus on developing our stories through mindfulness, curiosity, and tapping into our senses. No technical experience necessary. All levels of photography skills are welcome. All ages are welcome! Max 20 people (by donation for the fundraiser- minimum $25?)