Impact

Ocean Week Canada 2024

We are excited to share with you the Ocean Week Canada 2024 impact report! This year’s celebration from June 1-9 was filled with inspiring events and meaningful connections, all made possible thanks to our regional hub coordinators, partners, event hosts, and dedicated community members. Across geographies and generations, Ocean Week Canada 2024 saw nearly 400 events take place in all provinces and territories. Throughout these events, culture, language, knowledge systems, and history were celebrated in unique ways. Dive into the impact report to see how your passion has made a difference this year—we can’t wait to do it all again in 2025!

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2024 Grants at a glance

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Ocean Week Canada 2023

We are thrilled to share the Ocean Week Canada 2023 impact report. A huge thank you goes out to our partners, event hosts, and community for being the heart of Ocean Week. Your passion for the ocean is truly inspiring. Thank you to everyone that came out to an Ocean Week event and for making Ocean Week Canada 2023 a huge success. We can’t wait to see you again next year.

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OWC 2023 GRANTS AT A GLANCE

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Ocean Week Canada 2022

Ocean Week Canada debuted as a small (all virtual) pilot in 2021, and became an official annual event in 2022. Ocean Week Canada took place June 3-12, 2022 and kicked off a summer-long Ocean Festival (unique to 2022) intended to lay a foundation of ocean awareness as Canada geared up to host the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5) in Vancouver.

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IMPAC5 Ocean Festival

The Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition (COLC), together with a team of collaborating partners, co-led events at IMPAC5 that brought the public into ocean conservation conversations across generations, across cultures and languages, across backgrounds and experiences, across Canada and the globe. This included the Ocean Festival – a two-day outdoor public celebration attended by over 10,000 people.

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