We are excited to present the Savary Island Best Practices Guide. This Guide was designed to offer ideas to help reduce your impact on the Island, while fulfilling your dreams of living in this natural paradise.
Thank You! How to pay for won items and organize transfers
Thank you to all the artists and businesses that donated items to the #SILTonlineauction and all the bidders who participated! Thanks to your generosity, we raised $26,626.00
All bidders that won items will have received an invoice in an email from 32auctions. 32auctions provides the option of paying through PayPal. Alternative modes of payment include,
1. Credit card: email Liz at silts@telus.net for a link to online credit card payment.
2. Email money transfers: can be sent to silts@telus.net
**Liz will be at the Wired Corgi Cafe at noon tomorrow, Monday the 26 to distribute gift cards. She will also have the Square Reader for in-person payments for any won item.**
To organize the transfer of won items,
1. Email Liz your shipping address for mailing gift cards (if you can't make it to the Corgi tomorrow).
2. Art items: unless stated otherwise on the item's 32auctions page, winners are responsible for contacting the artists directly to organize the transfer of the piece. You can contact the artists through the social media accounts or websites we've listed on the 32auctions site. If you are have any difficulties getting in touch with the artist, please email Liz at silts@telus.net
THANK YOU!!!
SILT Newsletter 2021
Kelp by Audrey Capel Doray
Kelp (1969) by Audrey Capel Doray
1 of 4 prints previously sold at past SILT auctions (Clouds, Logs, Rocks)
18” x 18”, silk screen print, fluorescent ink on paper, framed and signed on reverse side.
Audrey Capel Doray (born 1931) is a Canadian artist working in a variety of mediums—painting, printmaking, electronic art, murals, and films. In addition to her solo and group exhibitions, her work was exhibited at the 6th Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting at the National Gallery of Canada in 1965. A serigraph Diamond is held in the Tate Gallery London and the National Gallery of Canada. Her work is described in North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century as combining "robust social criticism with her own interpretation of humanist theory" and dealing with pop art and the feminist archetype, themes of "perpetual motion and endless transition", and the interplay of sound and light. (Wiki)
Duck Bay by Jason Stang
Over the next few weeks we will be featuring information about the art, experiences, and gift cards that were generously donated to SILT to be sold for our Online Auction. Bidding for the SILT Online Auction will be open July 10 to 24. The first artwork we are showing is below: Duck Bay by Jason Stang
Duck Bay (7/100) by Jason Stang
SILT Online Auction and Virtual Party
We are thrilled to announce the first ever SILT Online Auction and Virtual Party! The events will be running in tandem from July 10 to 24. Artists and musicians you may recognize from past SILT Savary Stocks have generously donated their work for the events. We will also be seeing work from new exciting artists and items from local businesses. We will be posting more information on SILT social media pages and our website in the weeks to come. We are looking forward to joining you online this summer!
What to do if you find a baby fawn on Savary Island
Do you know what to do if you find a baby fawn without its mom? It is likely healthy and waiting for its mom to get back from finding food. Here is some useful information from the BC SPCA: What to do if you find a deer fawn
June 2021 SILT Plant BioBlitz
We are excited to announce the June 2021 Savary Island Land Trust Plant BioBlitz. Please help us discover the plant biodiversity in Savary’s rare ecosystems.
How to participate:
Create an iNaturalist account
Join the SILT Plant BioBlitz Project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/silt-plant-bioblitz
Take a picture of a plant you find on Savary
Upload it as an observation on iNaturalist
Tips for using iNaturalist:
1. Disable ‘automatic upload’ to avoid using data
• Go to Settings and uncheck the box next to automatic upload
• When in a Wi-Fi zone, select upload under your observations
2. Make sure your GPS is on: It’s important for distribution data!
3. You don’t have to guess the species
• Choose the level of classification that you feel confident about
• Ex. order, family, genus, etc.
What we’ll do with the results:
Post them on SILT social media pages
Use BioBlitz data as a baseline to study the biodiversity of Savary Island’s rare ecosystems
Select observations to feature on future SILT merchandise
Rules:
1. What NOT to post as observations:
• Garden plants: try to get plants naturally growing on Savary.
• You’re BFF: try to avoid getting people in pictures.
2. No wild guesses when choosing an ID
• If all you know is that you have a picture of a tree, and iNat’s artificial intelligence isn’t helping with the ID, leave it as ‘tree’
• Other iNat users will review your observation and make suggestions.
3.Do not disturb: avoid touching or damaging the organisms you are photographing
What's Blooming on Savary 2021
It’s that time of year again! Beautiful plants are blooming all around us. We are kicking off this year’s ‘What’s Blooming on Savary?' with the Chocolate Lily, or Fritillaria biflora.
