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It takes a village to build something with this much potential to improve community and planetary health globally — and I am so grateful for ours.
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Thank you to @thevancouversun for covering @nature.prescribing.alliance's launch story at @cop17armenia back home in Canada.
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Read the full piece at my (second) link in bio.
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@thewildlifetrusts @bcparksfdn @raffifoundation @cma_docs @cape_doctors @ccghc_
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#cop17armenia #healthybynature

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Happening Tomorrow - Tune in live on Global News On April 22 at 8:40 AM PST, Dave Richardson (Co-Founder, Stigma-Free Mental Health) and Akshay Gupta (Founder, Bit Happier) join Jason Pires for a meaningful conversation on mental health, loneliness, and the upcoming ILLUMINATE: Champions for Change fundraiser event 💛

With 1 in 4 Canadians experiencing mental illness each year and growing levels of loneliness across all age groups, conversations like these are more important than ever.

Don’t miss it.

#MentalHealthMatters #StigmaFree #GlobalNews #ChampionsForChange #communityimpact

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Thank you @frscsociety for hosting the best prehistoric fish party I've ever attended last night, and @rickhansenofficial, founding chair, for the lovely invitation.
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Wonderful to also catch up with @andrewday_ , and connect with @kiara.palma and @goufv leaders @jamesmandigo.ufvpresident, @jun.nakajim @drlenorenewman and Garry Fehr over food, music, recognition and giving.
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Every year FRSCS's 9-month Sturgeon Conservation Tagging Derby culminates in a Conservation Celebration that highlights the importance of collaborative action to protect this iconic species, which has sustained Indigenous peoples in the Fraser River watershed for millennia. Today the sturgeon also serves as an indicator species of ecosystem health. To date over 70,000 fish have been tagged via a volunteer-based tag-and-release program — and I'm proud to say I'm one of them!
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More about the Conservation Celebration here: https://frasersturgeon.com/sturgeon-conservation-tagging-derby/
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#frscs #planetaryhealth

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Art connects us—to ideas, to one another and to the world around us. ✨

From October to December 2025, that connection continued to grow at the Gallery, with increased admissions and strong engagement across exhibitions, programs and community initiatives.

Our latest Cultural Impact Report reflects a season of curiosity, care and connection—and the many ways audiences showed up for art and for each other.

➡️ Swipe to look back at October–December 2025 at the Gallery!

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What a joy to celebrate physician leaders at @doctorsofbc's annual President's Dinner and Awards Gala last night.
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Honoured to stand with @bcparksfdn CEO @andrewday_ as he accepted this year's Excellence in Health Promotion Award on behalf of #PaRx. This little program that could would never have taken off without you all; thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Huge congratulations in particular to Dr. @charlotteyonghing, winner of the Dr. Don Rix Award for Physician Leadership, medical student and @cape_doctors volunteer @_emiliewang on her Changemaker Award — proud to have supported her nomination — and @drsharondodd, friend and CAPE volunteer, for her well-deserved service award.
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As I listened to and moved through rooms full of brilliant and collaborative MDs and community leaders, I thought over and over again how grateful I was to be a physician, supported by such values-driven colleagues. The world is fraught on many levels, but when I see how so many people with power and privilege are working their hardest to bend the arc of health and healthcare in BC towards better wellbeing for all, it gives me hope.
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Also: I still think one of the best things about Premier @davidebybc is that he's married to a family doctor.
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Here's to even more achievements for health and healthcare in 2026, together!
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#familydocsrock #healthyfuture #healthybynature

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🎉 We’re honoured to share that the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collaboration with PaRx, an initiative of @bcparksfd, has received a 2025 Social Prescribing Changemaker Award from the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing (CISP), a national collaborative anchored by @redcrosscanada. Founded in 2020, PaRx, Canada’s nature prescription, now has nearly 20,000 prescribers and has provided over 1.5 million prescriptions across Canada.

This national recognition highlights the impact of the Gallery’s Art of Wellbeing initiatives and the expanding role of arts, culture and nature in supporting community health.

As Interim Co-CEOs Sirish Rao (@sirishr) and Eva Respini (@curator_on_the_run) note: “A growing body of empirical medical research has revealed that exposure to art has multiple health benefits. To our knowledge, this partnership of a nature prescription program and an arts institution remains one-of-a-kind globally, and we are grateful to CISP for this award. National recognition like this highlights the Gallery’s growing relevance at the intersections of art, community and wellbeing.”

We would like to acknowledge the visionary support of the Dave and Pamela Richardson Family for their foundational investment in these initiatives.

We would also like to extend our gratitude to Paula Toledo (@odetowonder), the Gallery’s Lead Art of Wellbeing Consultant, BC Parks Foundation and Dr. Melissa Lem (@drmelissalem) for their ongoing collaboration and innovation.

Find out more about the Gallery’s Art of Wellbeing Lab at the link in our bio.
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Image [from left to right]: Dave Richardson, Visionary Partner; Andrew Day, Chief Executive Officer, BC Parks Foundation; Dr. Melissa Lem, Family Physician and Co-Founder of PaRx; Paula Toledo, Lead Wellbeing Consultant, Vancouver Art Gallery; Sirish Rao, Interim Co-CEO and Director, Art of Wellbeing Lab, Vancouver Art Gallery; Eva Respini, Interim Co-CEO and Curator at Large, Vancouver Art Gallery; Richard Hill, Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, in “Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape,” April 2025, Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

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Willowbrae Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, Canada, July 4, 2025
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#canada🇨🇦 #nature #Ucluelet #vancouverisland #moss #sunshine #rainforest

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🌲 “We have more biodiversity than anywhere else in North America,” says Andy Day of the BC Parks Foundation. 🦉🌿

His mission? Protect 30% of British Columbia by 2030, for nature, for future generations, and for all of us who call this place home. 💚

#EarthDay #Biodiversity #BCParks #Conservation #30x30 #NatureMatters #ConversationsThatMatter #ProtectWhatYouLove @bcparksfdn @andrewday_

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🗞️ When your latest collaboration makes the front page of your hometown newspaper... 🎉

Proud to join forces with @drmelissalem and @bcparksfdn and be part of their PaRx program, highlighting how art and nature can support long-term health and wellbeing!

🌎 On Monday—World Health Day—the Gallery was delighted to launch the Art of Wellbeing lab, an ongoing series of pilot programs designed to make arts experiences accessible to individuals who stand to benefit the most.

As part of this initiative, the Gallery announced a new collaboration with BC Parks Foundation’s PaRx program—Canada’s national nature prescription program. We have been blown away by the support we have received so far from doctors and healthcare professionals in the room and beyond!

🌿 Starting this week, healthcare professionals can prescribe a visit to the Gallery’s Emily Carr room to support patients’ overall health and wellbeing. The Gallery will offer free admission to the PaRx patient and one optional guest, thereby fostering social connections while removing financial barriers.

🌱 The work at the Art of Wellbeing lab at the Vancouver Art Gallery is ongoing, and we are busy developing more initiatives. These programs will integrate insights from researchers, scientists, artists, physicians and Indigenous Elders and healers to create a sustainable model for arts-based wellbeing.

Support for the Art of Wellbeing lab is essential in making these programs accessible to everyone in our community.

Become a Gallery Member or consider making a donation today! You can help us sustain and grow initiatives like this one, ensuring that more individuals can experience the healing power of art.

🔗 Find out more at the link in our bio.

Together, we can transform lives through the power of art.

Images: Art of Wellbeing lab press conference, April 2025, Photos: Vancouver Art Gallery

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That moment @bcparksfdn's #PaRx x @vanartgallery collaboration makes front-page news in your city's biggest newspaper.
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Starting this week, any health professional registered in PaRx can prescribe free visits to VAG's Emily Carr exhibition to enjoy a nature, art and social connection experience to improve their patients' health.
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Honoured to co-create this groundbreaking initiative with @sirishr, @odetowonder and the wonderful staff at @vanartgallery + @bcparksfdn— and celebrate with so many friends and colleagues.
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Read the full story at my link in bio!

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🚨 Great new paper alert!
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Proud to co-author Canada's first-ever peer-reviewed paper examining nature prescriptions from coast to coast, published in @wss_journal this week.
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Key findings:
🌲 75%(!) of people in Canada would spend more time in nature if a health professional recommended it
🤔 Only 8% have heard about nature prescriptions—ie. there's massive potential to improve public health as they become more widely adopted
📈 Biggest reported enablers: access to health insurance coverage, and free/discounted nature passes and transportation
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Through program development and innovative partnerships, @bcparksfdn's #PaRx is working on addressing every single one of these. Love it when action and science are on the same side.
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Huge thanks to our international team, including Calin Lazarescu, Catherine Reining, Mark Groulx, Thomas Astell-Burt and Xiaoqi Feng, led by Chris Lemieux, for getting this over the finish line.
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Check out the full paper at my link in bio!
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#healthybynature

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Joining @vancouvermagazine's 2025 Power 50 List last night in the presence of so many of my heroes on this journey towards a healthy future was something I'll never forget.
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From David Suzuki and Tara Cullis, whose trailblazing work helped inspire my love of nature as a child—and still does today—to @naomiaklein, whose book This Changes Everything inspired my climate action journey, to my visionary Park Prescriptions collaborators @jennie_mccaffrey and @andrewday_ at the @bcparksfdn, to @christineeboyle and @avi.lewis, who practise the kind of politics that makes me believe in politics, to @sirishr and @odetowonder, true innovators at the intersection of nature, art and social connection, I am so grateful and honoured to do this work of protecting this planet, and the people we love on it, alongside you.
What a full-circle moment.
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Check out the entire Power 50 List at my link in bio!

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