Events and Featured Experiences

Saturday, August 2
Saturday, September 6

Join us on the first Saturday of each month this summer — including June 7, July 5, August 2, and September 6 from 10 am – 3 pm— for the Spo7ez Artist Market, celebrating the incredible talents of artisans from the Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation.

Join us at the SLCC for Natural Dyeing and Weaving with Plants and Mushrooms – a hands-on experience blending Traditional Knowledge and western science. Learn to forage, dye, and weave using local materials with instructors Nadine McSpadden and Zoe McDonell.

Saturday, August 16, 2025
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
SLCC, Whistler
$150 | Spots are limited!

Create your own naturally dyed woven piece and deepen your connection with the land.

This tour begins with a traditional welcome song inside the Cultural Centre followed by a fifteen minute film. Afterwards, guests visit our Interpretive Forest Trail, the Salish Stroll, where a knowledgeable Cultural Ambassador provides insight into the local flora and fauna in our shared territory. Guests will learn how the Nations used them for food, in our teas as preventative medicine, and how we transformed some into useful tools. This tour provides a glimpse of how our ancestors lived, and it showcases our intimate connection with our land.

Cost: Included with Museum Admission
Date and Time: 3 pm, Tuesday – Sunday during May and September, 7 days during June, July, August
This tour replaces the hourly What We Treaure Tour. Occasionally, we close early for private events, plan your visit at slcc.ca/visit

The feature exhibit shares how traditional knowledge and history were passed down from generation to generation through stories. Guests can experience storytelling, bold artwork, petroglyphs and pictographs showing the connection to the land of the Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) territory and the Lil̓wat7úl (Lil’wat Nation) territory. Continuing the tradition of ancestors, these stories tell meaningful connections to the land, anchoring families to specific areas throughout time and strengthening their identities.

Beginning May 10, 2025, throughout spring and summer, Cultural Ambassadors will share a special feature Legends of the Land Tour at 11 am, beginning with a welcome song, and live storytelling within the exhibit space in Gallery 3, and is included with admission.

The SLCC welcomes guests to see the new Lil’wat Story Pole carved by Master Carver Jonathan Joe, Apprentice Redmond Q̓áwam̓ Andrews, and Todd Edmonds, at the entrance to the SLCC on Lorimer Road in Whistler, where it now stands alongside the Squamish House Post carved by Xwalacktun and Brandon Hall of the Squamish Nation in 2023.

The SLCC is proud to share authentic art and storytelling through the Go Whistler Tours App – created by Tourism Whistler and the Resort Municipality of Whistler. Thoughtfully curated by SLCC Curator Mixalhítsa7 Alison Pascal, the Art & Storytelling of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Líl̓wat7úl – walking tour weaves its way through the Village to nine locations that are culturally significant to the Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation starting at and returning to the SLCC.