Community Awareness Events

  • Planning Table is Coordinating.

  • August 31, 2025
    Theme: One Big Family Driven by Hope

    This year, the Interior Women’s Centre Society is partnering with community agencies and People With Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE) to host a powerful day of remembrance, education, and action.

    Join us at the Downtown Paramount Theatre for a screening of Love in the Time of Fentanyl, followed by community booths offering harm reduction education, drug checking, naloxone training and distribution, resource navigation, peer support, and information on Moms Stop The Harm’s bereavement programs. Dozens of local organizations will be on hand with resources to advocate for policies that support life.

    As the sun sets, we will gather at Riverside Park at the Moms Stop The Harm Bench for a vigil, where 575 candles will be lit, each one representing a life taken too soon by the toxic drug supply in Kamloops between 2016 and 2025.

    This year’s theme, One Big Family Driven by Hope, reminds us that overdose does not just shatter individual families; it fractures our entire community. The grief ripples through classrooms, workplaces, and neighbourhoods, crossing borders between cities, provinces, and nations.

    But in the face of loss, we also find connection. We are one big family, not just because we share in the pain, but because we share in the power to change what comes next.

    On August 31, we go beyond awareness. We organize, we show up, and we take action. Because no one should carry this grief alone. Every story shared, every voice raised, and every step we take brings us closer to a future free from overdose.

    Join us. Stand with us. Take action.

    The event is pay what you can, if you can. All attendees will receive free popcorn with their entry.

  • Visit the project page to learn more