# Event Details - **Event Name**: Community Engagement Events | Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 03:30 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS This spring, multiple community organizations are coming together to amplify the Comox Valley Art Gallery’s convergent program that turns our collective attention to the human experience of dying, death, and grief. Adjacent to the art installations and performances at CVAG, the following free events invite the community into opportunities that open up consideration, conversation, and our consciousness to a part of our lives that is often avoided, denied, and given over to others to manage. These contributions offer pathways towards recovering our agency and a dismantling of prevailing stigma and taboos that shroud our inevitable encounter with dying, death, and grief. --- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AT CVAG Mini Grief 101 | Wednesday, April 15 | 2 - 3:30pm | Presented by Comox Valley Hospice Society This information-based gathering offers an opportunity to learn more about the physical, psychological and emotional impacts of a common but life changing process. Knowing a little more about grief and loss can help us better support a friend, family member or coworker and have more empathy for ourselves and others. Registration is recommended for this event. Drop-ins are also welcome. To RSVP to attend Mini Grief 101, please email: register@comoxvalleyartgallery.com (specify the date of the session you will attend). - Music Meditations | Friday, April 17 | 2 - 3pm | Led by Threshold Choir Threshold Choir sings with and for all people. They know that music has the potential to be a healing power and can be an instrument for peace and justice. They are committed to creating a harmonious culture of inclusivity, respect, and love. The choir affirms the beauty, dignity, and wholeness of all people and believe that everyone deserves to be treated with kindness from their first to their last breath. - Community Grief Circle | Wednesday, April 29 | 2 - 4pm | Facilitated by Cadence Moffat McCann (Inner Cadence) Grief takes many forms — personal and collective, recent and long held. This community grief circle offers a quiet, facilitated space to gather, reflect, and be witnessed. Through sharing and simple somatic practices, participants are invited to notice what is held in the body and allow emotion to move in its own time. This is not a space of fixing or resolving, but of being with; of letting grief be seen, heard, and held. This event is open to anyone carrying grief of any kind. Facilitator Cadence Moffat McCann is a somatic and nature-based healing practitioner supporting people through grief, loss, and life’s transitions. Her work invites a return to the body, to feeling, and to a deeper sense of belonging within the web of life. Registration is required for this event as capacity is limited. To sign up to attend the Community Grief Circle, please email: register@comoxvalleyartgallery.com. - Mini Grief 101 | Wednesday, May 6 | 2 - 3:30pm | Presented by Comox Valley Hospice Society This information-based gathering offers an opportunity to learn more about the physical, psychological and emotional impacts of a common but life changing process. Knowing a little more about grief and loss can help us better support a friend, family member or coworker and have more empathy for ourselves and others. Registration is recommended for this event. Drop-ins are also welcome. To RSVP to attend Mini Grief 101, please email: register@comoxvalleyartgallery.com (specify the date of the session you will attend). - Death Cafe | Thursday, May 7 | 2 - 3pm | Facilitated by Comox Valley Hospice Society This is a drop-in, cafe-style gathering with coffee/tea, nibbles, and purposeful conversation facilitated by Death Cafe volunteers. Death Cafe events are held the world over in communities just like ours. People from all walks of life gather to have candid conversations about death and dying, in a casual cafe setting. These discussion groups (not support groups) are participant facilitator lead and have no hidden agenda or affiliation. The only objective is ‘to increase awareness of death and dying and to “make the most of our finite lives.” - Music Meditations | Saturday, May 9 | 2 - 3pm | Led by Threshold Choir Threshold Choir sings with and for all people. They know that music has the potential to be a healing power and can be an instrument for peace and justice. They are committed to creating a harmonious culture of inclusivity, respect, and love. The choir affirms the beauty, dignity, and wholeness of all people and believe that everyone deserves to be treated with kindness from their first to their last breath. - Waves of Loss: An Interactive Journey through Environmental Grief | Saturday, May 16 | 2 - 3:30 pm | Facilitated by Tina Willard-Stepan (Connected by Water) | Limited to 25 Participants (All Ages) This participatory workshop invites participants to engage with water as both teacher and mirror — revealing how cycles of flow, stillness, and renewal can guide our understanding of environmental change and care. Through gentle movement, reflection, and collaborative creative practices, we’ll explore the connections between personal grief and the shifting health of the Comox Lake Watershed and the ecosystems that support it. Together, we’ll consider how water shapes our sense of place and responsibility, and how collective awareness can nurture resilience in the face of ecological loss. The session offers space for reflecting on what has changed while grounding in community-based actions that sustain renewal and hope. Facilitator Tina Willard-Stepan is an environmental educator, artist, speaker and facilitator, Tina brings depth to important conversation about climate and the environment. She is an educator for the CVRD Connected by Water team, a graduate of Climate Leadership Training, and an active part of the Climate Reality Project. - Death Cafe | Thursday, May 28 | 2 - 3pm | Facilitated by Comox Valley Hospice Society This is a drop-in, cafe-style gathering with coffee/tea, nibbles, and purposeful conversation facilitated by Death Cafe volunteers. Death Cafe events are held the world over in communities just like ours. People from all walks of life gather to have candid conversations about death and dying, in a casual cafe setting. These discussion groups (not support groups) are participant facilitator lead and have no hidden agenda or affiliation. The only objective is ‘to increase awareness of death and dying and to “make the most of our finite lives.” --- OFFSITE EVENTS + SELF-DIRECTED ACTIVITIES Placekeeping Grief: Exploring Altered Landscapes | Tuesday, April 21 | 4 - 6pm | Facilitated by Meaghan Cursons (Cumberland Community Forest Society and Connected by Water) | Registration Required Join storyteller, community historian, and CCFS Executive Director Meaghan Cursons for a site-based exploration of the altered landscape of the Perseverance Creek corridor. Unearth stories of human and animal displacement, resource extraction, floods, fires, and loss as we witness nature in this liminal space between harm and healing, ruin and recovery. Registration is required for this event, so meeting information can be sent to participants in advance. Follow the link (and scroll down to the Placekeeping Grief event) to sign up: https://cumberlandforest.tickit.ca/events/34633. - National Hospice and Palliative Care Week | May 3 - 9, 2026 National Hospice and Palliative Care Week is a time to celebrate and highlight the incredible work being done to provide quality palliative care across the country. It is also a time to call for better access to quality hospice palliative care, for every community, in every setting. Besides the activities at CVAG, there will be events throughout the community listed on the Comox Valley Hospice Society’s events calendar: https://comoxhospice.com/program-calendar. - Curated Grief Resources | April 4 - May 30, 2026 at the Vancouver Island Regional Library (Courtenay) The Courtenay Branch of the Vancouver Island Public Library will host a resource table displaying books about death, dying, and grief in support of 'Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving'. The display will include materials addressing the diverse aspects of death and grief, including reflections from local authors and community-based resources. CVAG is grateful to the lead librarian Zane Weller and the library team for their collaboration. - Walking Wellness | Self-Guided Walks on Trails within the Comox Valley Resources for individual walks are available thanks to the Comox Valley Hospice Society. Printed guidebooks are available by donation at CVAG, and PDF versions can be viewed online. --- Learn more: https://www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com/events/pas-a-pas-not-intent-on-arriving-community-engagement-events/. --- Image credit: SD Holman. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/courtenay/community-engagement-events-|-pas-à-pas;-not-intent-on-arriving/200029943579402 - **Event Categories**: nonprofit, music, art, entertainment, health-wellness, workshops, meetups, literary-art, calendar, meditation, trips-adventures - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Courtenay - **state**: BC - **country**: Canada - **location**: 580 Duncan Ave, Courtenay, BC, Canada, British Columbia V9N 2M7 - **lat**: 49.6905 - **long**: -124.99793 - **full address**: 580 Duncan Ave, Courtenay, BC, Canada, British Columbia V9N 2M7 ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Community Engagement Events | Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/51204301e7f74a6f12ea08df735273e9fb2c0175fdd18485daf6cd52e327361e-rimg-w1200-h675-dc313131-gmir?v=1776209882 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Community Engagement Events | Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving being held? - **A:** Community Engagement Events | Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving takes place on Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 03:30 pm at 580 Duncan Ave, Courtenay, BC, Canada, British Columbia V9N 2M7. - **Q**: Who is organizing Community Engagement Events | Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving? - **A:** Community Engagement Events | Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving is organized by Comox Valley Art Gallery. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Community Engagement Events | Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Courtenay, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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