Bear Awareness Day

🐻 IT’S BEAR DAY 🐻

FREE event!
Come along for an amazing lineup of events, bear spray demos and super-fun-family-friendly surprises 💫

8am – 1pm: Pop-up Bear Den at the Farmer’s Market
Visit us at the Revelstoke Farmer’s Market in they ally beside the Regent. We’ll have special guests like the Kicking Horse Interpretive Centre’s and learn all about Boo the Bear and so much more! Including a kids scavenger hunt with bear swag prices, face painting and more.
Bear education tour. Peek in the windows of businesses around town and see who has some information to share.

9am & 11am: Bear Spray Demo’s in the bear den

10 am – 5pm: Colouring Contest & Crafts
Stop by the Revelstoke Library, choose a bear themed colouring page and enter the colouring contest!

12:30 – 2pm: Bear Film Fest
Movie Screening at The Roxy Theatre followed by a Bear Biologist panel Q&A

2:30 – 4:00: Bear Tracks Interpretive Walk
Giles Shearing will be hosting an interpretive walk at the Forestry Museum. He’ll be talking about foraging signs, smells, what to do should you encounter a bear, signs of a bear in a forest and much more.

7-9pm: Paint Night
Paint Night with Lily. Learn to paint a bear face! Limited spaces. Contact us at [email protected] to register!