Join us at the Opening Ceremony on Thursday night. Leave all your daily demands behind you for the next three days and try to find a balance within yourself and the environment around you. The wine and cheese will be a time to meet all the “first timers” to the G.E.O.E.C. conference.

Friday Night Unplugged – Sing-along With Friends and Entertainment

What is an Unplugged G.E.O.E.C. Sing-along? This is the time where you can perform to an unconditional appreciative audience. Haul your musical instruments out from your closets – guitars, banjos, flutes, diggeridous (!), spoons, drums, noise makers – and be ready to jam with a group of talented musicians. Includes a performance of songs from different cultures by an adult choir from Edson under the direction of Diana Bainbridge.

Saturday Night Dinner & Dance

After dinner you will have a chance to learn to Line Dance from a qualified Line Dance instructor. Come prepared to have fun – and you don’t need to wear your dancing shoes.

Sunday Optional Tours

The following off-site activities are optional and family oriented:

1. Take a historical walk in the town site of Jasper with a Friend of Jasper, Neil Prather. (Free)
2. Walk up to the Edith Cavel Meadows with a national park guide. (Cost TBA)
3. Put on your cowboy boots and take a horse back riding trip with the Pyramid Riding Stable. (Cost TBA)
4. Reach to the top of Whistler Peak without too much walking. Take the Whistler Sky Tram and get a great look at the Rockies.
5. Raft down the Athabasca River and enjoy the crisp air and all the snow-capped mountains around you.

(Cost of each off-site activity depends on the number of participants.)

Ben Gadd	Biologist in Jasper and author of Handbook of the Canadian Rockies.
Tim Grant	Editor of Green Teacher magazine and an environmental educator
Dan Stoker	S.E.E.D.S. project coordinator for Alberta
Louella Cronkhite	From the University of Lethbridge, worked on the “Population: Six Billion and Counting” Project
Sara Coumantarakis	Alberta Learning Network Global Education Program – “Building a Culture of Peace”
Peter Amann	Head of Marmot Basin Avalanche Control and a certified Alpine Club of Canada guide
Paul Belanger and Rocky Notnes	Living in a straw and energy efficient house in Hinton
Ron Berezan	Working with Change for Children – “Empowering Youth for Global Citizenship through the Arts”
Brenda Dobson	A biologist who is working on bird migration for her Science Masters degree
Daniel Farr	Biologist with Foothills Model Forest Project in Hinton who has worked on landscape disturbance patterns
Toni Fernhout	1999 participant of Summer Institute in Global Education in Mexico – “A Transforming Experience”
Carolyn Fish	Jasper National Park education programs director
Ward Hughson	Jasper National Park warden who has been working on a wetland project
Art Jackson	Certified rafting and canoeing guide in Jasper
Peter Lenton	Our famous Calgary musician, entertainer and environmental educator, who is a recent recipient of the Emerald Award
Jimi Merkel	Working with the Global Living Project – “Living Simply in the Midst of Consumption”
Dave Mussell	Pembina Institute educator will present a workshop on the Biosphere
Ellen Parker	Working on the project “Jubilee 2000: Debt Forgiveness, New Beginning”
Wendy Passmore	From W.P. Puppet Theatre – “Using Puppetry to Teach Global Issues”
Nancy Pollard	Calgary Junior High School Outdoor Education teacher will share her experiences and expertise on mountain biking
Rita Poruchny	President of Global, Environmental and Outdoor Education Council of A.T.A.
Jeff Reading	Education Coordinator from Fish Creek Provincial Park in Calgary
Rosemary Sackela	Global educator from Barnett House of A.T.A. who is teaching human rights in high school
Marni Scheffer	FEESA and Foothills Model Forest environmental educator who is involved in the grade six Trees and Forests
Barb Simmer	Botanist from Valemont, B.C., whose interest is the history of flowers
Kirby Smith	Alberta Natural Resources Services wildlife biologist who has worked on a woodland Caribou Project
Gordon Stenhouse	Wildlife biologist with Alberta Natural Resources Service is working on a grizzly bear project with the Foothills Model Forest in Hinton
Gareth Thomson	Education Director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Kevin Van Tighem	Waterton National Park biologist and author of Coming West: A Natural History of Home
Jackie Whitford	Aboriginal Health and Education liaison in Edson and district will be presenting a workshop on how she balances two cultures
Heather Wheeliker	Alberta Environment Protection educator who has been working on the Bull Trout Project
Alan Westhaver	Jasper National Park Warden who is involved in forest fire control in Jasper
Arlene Williams and Earl Choldin	From Alberta Learning Network who will give out information on teacher student exchanges
Sue Wolf	Jasper National Park naturalist who worked on the Columbia Icefield EduKit
Dr. Robert Zuber	the Sustainability Education Center; the YMCA Earth Service Corps; and the Green Map System. He lives in New York City and is a regional editor of Green Teacher.