{"id":56124,"date":"2021-08-11T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=56124"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:53:12","slug":"festivals-in-northern-bc-parrot-fest-fundraiser-on-re-occupied-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/festivals-in-northern-bc-parrot-fest-fundraiser-on-re-occupied-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivals in Northern BC: Parrot Fest fundraiser on re-occupied land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Festivals are back in Northern BC. Musicians and party-goers alike rejoiced when COVID-19 restrictions lifted in July of this year to allow large groups to convene outdoors (called \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/covid-19\/info\/restart\">BC Restart<\/a>\").<\/p>\n<p>With that news, event planners went into high gear and the North and Interior of British Columbia saw a number of new and returning festivals announce dates and ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, CICK shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/bvfms.org\/\">Bulkley Valley Folk Music Society<\/a>'s decades-long <a href=\"https:\/\/smithersmusicfest.com\/\">Midsummer Music Festival<\/a> return (Sept. 10 and 11 in Smithers, BC) and this week we are looking at Parrot Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Parrot Fest was a small but mighty festival fundraiser held on the re-occupied Wet'suwet'en yintah at Round Lake.<\/p>\n<p>This event was organized by Sim Wilson, a 23-year-old Wet'suwet'en woman whose family and community lives in the village of Parrot Lake. The idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.me\/e\/FlpjqL3V\">Parrot Fest<\/a> came up quickly and Wilson launched the idea, poster, and call out for performers two weeks prior to the event.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CICK News, Wilson said \"the funds [raised] will go toward Parrot Lake construction and operations of Parrot Lake.\"<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to Pam Haasen's interview with Sim Wilson below:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festivals are back in Northern BC. Musicians and party-goers alike rejoiced when COVID-19 restrictions lifted in July of this year to allow large groups to convene outdoors (called &#8220;BC Restart&#8221;). With that news, event planners went into high gear and the North and Interior of British Columbia saw a number of new and returning festivals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":56128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,219],"tags":[5298,4797,1751,8707,8709,8710,8279,8708],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56124"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=56124"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=56124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}