Join us March 26 at 1 p.m. for a dialogue grounded in resilience, persistence and diversity as past and present substance users share their personal experiences of recovery and wellness — and their insights into how BC’s challenged and patchwork substance-use supports helped and hindered them on that journey.

Harm reduction and recovery advocate Guy Felicella will be joining us for a second time to lead this inspiring and truthful conversation, the final event in Peers Victoria’s speaker series on the toxic drug crisis, “Out of Harm’s Way: Innovation, Insight and Action to End the Toxic Drug Crisis.”

March 26 agenda

This is going to be a powerhouse afternoon. We’ll be welcoming advocate and story-teller Sekani Dalketh as our opening keynote, and have confirmed a number of people from Victoria and Vancouver Island to be part of the dialogue led by Guy Felicella.

Our closing keynote speaker will be the one and only Ann Livingston, co-founder of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) and a key figure in BC’s early days of harm reduction, when advocacy efforts led by Ann and Dean Wilson led to the opening of Canada’s first supervised injection site in 2003. More recently, Ann has helped organize the Nanaimo Area Network of Drug Users.

The event is at First Metropolitan Church sanctuary at 932 Balmoral Ave., with the entrance on Quadra Street. Admission is free — come on down and bring all your friends!

And if you haven’t had a chance to watch our Jan. 29 event, here it is. The Feb. 26 event video will be coming soon.