As glaciers retreat and habitats shift, connection is everything.
2025 is the International Year of the Glaciers’ Preservation — a moment to reckon with what we’re losing and what we can still protect. From melting ice fields to threatened habitat to fragmented migration routes, our changing climate is redrawing the map of the Yellowstone to Yukon region. But with change comes opportunity!
Join Y2Y in person for three hope-filled films exploring how wildlife, communities and ecosystems adapt and endure when landscapes transform. And the stories of the people making a difference on the landscape. The screenings will be followed by panel discussions and an opportunity to ask your questions with filmmakers, Y2Y scientists and program experts, and Indigenous knowledge keepers.
Event details:
When: Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6:30 – 9:30 PM Mountain Time
Where: artsPlace Canmore, 950 8 Avenue, Canmore
Cost: adult $15 / youth $7.50
Event schedule:
- 6:30 PM – Doors open
- 7:00 PM – Welcome and opening remarks
- 7:05 PM – Screening and panel discussion: Always Will Be There
- An Indigenous-led journey into grizzly country, where traditional knowledge and modern science converge. This film reveals how protecting sacred landscapes and wildlife corridors safeguards both cultural continuity and climate resilience across generations. A panel discussion follows, featuring Gillian Staveley from the Dene Kayeh Institute and Tim Burkhart, Y2Y Landscape Protection Director.
- 7:45 PM – Intermission
- 8:00 PM – Screening: Losing Blue and Embers
- Two intimate portraits of climate disruption: wildfires reshaping forests and glaciers vanishing from mountain peaks. As ice melts and ecosystems burn, these films ask how we create refuge in a warming world — and why protecting connected habitat is more urgent than ever. A panel discussion follows, featuring Sasha Galitzki, filmmaker of Embers, a special guest from Losing Blue, and Dr. Graham McDowell, Y2Y Director of Science and Knowledge.
- 9:30 PM – Thank you and wrap up
Photo credits:
Bighorn sheep. Credit: Shutterstock
Mountain lake. Credit: Kelly Zenkewich
Mountain Bluebird. Credit: Shutterstock
