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SUMMARY:Meadowlark Nature Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:This year’s festival will include over 50 hiking\, biking\, walking\, kayaking\, and trail-riding tours\, all with an ecological or cultural focus led by local mentors and conservation partners. Join us in the beautiful Okanagan-Similkameen this May long weekend to experience many well-known favourite tours and engaging new adventures\, including accessible and family-friendly events. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOnline ticket sales will open Thursday\, April 4th.\nFor more details\, and a more detailed itinerary\, go to meadowlarkfestival.ca. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery May long-weekend since 1998\, Meadowlark Nature Festival has presented interactive\, multi-disciplinary events that explore and celebrate the spectacular natural environment of the Okanagan Similkameen. Taking participants from Canada’s unique desert environment in the south\, to the alpine meadows high above the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys\, the Festival connects people with nature\, engaging and inspiring them to protect the unique habitats and species of this region and indeed our planet. \n\nMeadowlark Festival is geared to appeal to a wide cross-section of people and interests\, and so events include canoe trips\, guided hikes\, film screenings\, Aboriginal culture\, inspirational speakers\, bird watching tours\, back-country horseback riding\, geological tours\, astronomy events\, art exhibitions\, photography\, writing and painting workshops\, historic hikes and more. There is truly something for everyone! Each event is led by an expert in their field such as a biologist\, botanist\, historian\, geologist\, naturalist\, aboriginal knowledge keeper\, astronomer\, herpetologist\, artist\, etc. and groups are kept small so participants get an informative and entertaining\, up-close-and-personal\, one-on-one experience. \n\nThroughout its history\, Meadowlark has exposed thousands of local and visiting participants to conservation and environmental initiatives\, encouraging their involvement and bringing them together to steward our natural environment and find common ground on which to celebrate it. The Festival promotes the Okanagan Similkameen as a major tourism destination in general and also offers insight and information about more specific locations that are of interest to eco-tourists\, artists\, birders\, outdoor sporting enthusiasts such as hikers\, cyclists\, canoeists and others. A recent Sport Tourism Economic Assessment Model (STEAM) report determined the Festival’s annual economic impact to be $625\,000 for the whole of BC and over $550\,000 directly to Penticton and area. \n\n\nMeadowlark Nature Festival is the flagship event presented each year by the Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA)\, a registered non-profit\, charitable organization. In addition to the annual Meadowlark Festival\, OSCA operates ongoing community programs including: \n\nECOstudies Program\nSpotlight on Species Program\nECOmanagement Program\nVaseux Lake Bird Observatory\nand OSCA online\n\nFor more information on OSCA visit our website at www.osca.org.
URL:https://travellingout.ca/event/meadowlark-nature-festival-2024/
LOCATION:Penticton\, Various Venues
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SUMMARY:Dine Around South Okanagan
DESCRIPTION:Sip\, Savour & Stay in the South Okanagan!  Explore the unlimited tastes of BC January 17 – February 11\, 2024
URL:https://travellingout.ca/event/dine-around-south-okanagan/
LOCATION:Penticton\, Various Venues
CATEGORIES:Food & Drink,Penticton
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