Upcoming Events
What's Happening in Westport
Winter Eco Cafe series
Thursdays January-March 2026 3:30-6:30pm
the Cove Inn
Jan 15
• Introducing Plant Baby Plant — a Robin Wall Kimmerer & team initiative.
Moving forward with Westport Pocket Forests.
• Sign up for the Earth Doll workshop and Climate Cafés @
• Call for donations: single mitts and clothing for the Clothing Exchange Feb 12 and wool items to be repurposed into blankets Feb 19
Jan 22
• Climate Café with Claire Beach of Wild Edge Nature Immersion; A gentle space in a changing world to listen, share, and connect. Theme: climate and change. Pre-register, limited spaces.
Jan 29
with Shannon Lem from the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Network
• Focus: planning for local projects in the Frontenac Arch Biosphere, eg tree inventory, pocket forests, removing invasives, EcoFest 2026
Feb 5
• Make a Mother Earth Doll. Ojibwe Dollmaker from Northern Ontario, Rose Moses, will lead a workshop to make a Mother Earth Doll using only recycled materials. Pre-register, limited spaces.
Feb 12
• Clothing exchange, mitt match up
• Reminder: wool items for blanket-making next week
Feb 19
• Stitching & upcycling session with woolen items
• Invitation to stay after dinner for community gathering next week
Feb 26
• Topic: Gardening communally, saving seeds, seed exchange
• Dinner social afterwards — stay and connect together
March 5
• Climate Café with Claire Beach of Wild Edge Nature Immersion; A gentle space in a changing world to listen, share, and connect. Theme: Active Hope
March 12
• Create a collaborative Sculptural Art piece with Delvalle with repurposed materials to be installed in Westport Pocket Forest; Cove site
lively conversations on ecological themes
meet new friends in your community after work
educational and informative topics and speakers
in the lovely atmosphere at the Cove where you can enjoy great food and music.
EcoFest ,Sat May 23rd 2026
Westport Ontario.
The 4th Annual Celebration: Regenerate · Reciprocate · Inspire
EcoFest returns to Westport with new energy and partnerships, while staying true to our core mission: Celebrating and advocating for the natural world, honoring all living beings, and showcasing those who call us toward sustainability, reciprocity, regeneration, and connection. We feature local speakers, stewards, presenters, artists, makers and innovators.
🌿 New and Old Partnerships
The Cove Inn: A hub for music and community in Westport, now home to EcoFest 2026. Together, we’ll bring events to the Cove’s indoor and surrounding outdoor spaces.
Dark Skies Initiative: With the Perth-to-Chaffey’s Locks region moving toward Dark Sky Preserve designation, EcoFest joins in celebrating this commitment to protecting the night for all living beings.
Frontenac Arch Biosphere Network; our allies and experts in the fauna and flora of this heritage region. They will help us plan to improve the health of the natural world we live in with invasives control, diverse native plantings and pocket forests.
🌎 We’re Moving Downtown
This year, EcoFest expands into the heart of Westport. Displays, workshops, play spaces, and performances will be hosted at the Cove, throughout the Village, and at the Harbour.
Highlights include:
• The first Westport Pocket Forest, installed at the Cove.• A star-gazing pad for Dark Sky viewing at the Cove.• Voyageur canoe tours offering educational journeys around the lake.
🎶 We’re Celebrating
EcoFest 2026 will feature noted authors, musicians, and poets. Together, we’ll ally with creativity and ideas to celebrate the natural world and those who inspire us to steward it.
✨ We’re Extending
Events begin in the afternoon and continue into the evening, with Dark Sky viewing, dancing, and community connection under the stars
Ongoing Events
BTC has joined The Canadian Library (TCL) Project https://www.thecanadianlibrary.ca/ to honour and bring attention to Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls and TwoSpirit (MMIWG2S). This national project, launched in 2021, consists of communities creating an art installation together as a memorial to the 8000 murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls and 2S. The TCL project supports the building of micro galleries of books bound in Indigenous-designed textiles, with the names of those lost in gold on the spines of the bound books. Some books will remain nameless to represent those who may never have a chance to tell their story. The project, guided by Indigenous elders, reflects our shared commitment as Canadians to teach the truth about our history and move towards healing. The names that will be placed on the books have been shared by elders and families with the desire to have the stories told and the lives honoured. Our micro galleries will be displayed publicly and locally until all the micro galleries come together in a prominent place for permanent exhibition.
We invite you to sponsor the purchase of fabric, at $30/m
We invite you to host a bookbinding event and or a microgallery in your public place to honour and raise concern for those missing or murdered. We can provide posters that support the exhibition.
Please contact us to sponsor, register or host at bettertogethercircle@gmail.com
The Better Together Circle acknowledges that we are on the land that has been inhabited by Indigenous Peoples from the beginning. As settlers, we're grateful for the opportunity to meet, work and play here, and we thank all the generations of people stretching back in time who have taken care of this land. In particular, we gratefully acknowledge the Algonquin (Omàmìwininìwag) Anishnaabeg whose unceded territory this is. BTC is dedicated to taking action towards reconciliation and a harmonious relationship with the land.
"What we do to the land, we do to ourselves." Chief Seattle.
