Upcoming Events
What's Happening in Westport
Better Together Circle and the Frontenac Arch Biosphere present
For the Love of Trees
meet author Diana Beresford-Kroeger and her new book "Our Green Heart"
Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s is a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest. She delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the lives of trees and forests and into the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.
$10 donation at the door
Sat, June 21st 2025 3-5
Westport United Church
special guests the Free Spirits
Young Petty Stones and Special Guests
A wonderful evening with full Cove buffet and timeless music expertly crafted. Part of the ticket sale goes to support the work of the Better Together Circle.
Dance the night away and lift your spirits
Orange Shirt Day
Date: September 30th, 2025
Location: Lockwood Park, Westport.
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Orange Shirt Day was inspired by Phyllis Webstad, a residential school survivor, whose new orange shirt was taken away on her first day of residential school. This story has become a powerful symbol of the experience of many Indigenous children.
Our heartfelt thanks for the generous support of the Young Petty Stones and the Cove, Westport, family.
and to the community who came out to join the warm summer vibes and who supported the Better Together Circle in what we do.
Young Petty Stones perform again June 21st and July 19th and both concerts some of the proceeds will go towards our work at Better Together Circle.
May 24, 2025
10am - 3pm @ WTC Community Arena
Address: 31 Spring St. Westport Ont
Speakers in the Arena
10 Robert Dick, Astronomer and Dark Sky advocate. Shoreline lighting.
11 Mireille LaPointe, Grandmother, Community Helper. 2-Eyed Seeing.
Noon Britt and Alister; Dehydrating Your Harvest.
1pm EVCO; Mike Banks; Electric Vehicles 101 and 10 common myths busted.
2pm Claire Beach. Wild Edge Nature. The Power of Eco Therapy: Easing Stress Naturally
Performers at the Bandshell
Noon Darien Smith. Poet. Original works.
1pm Rideau Canal Cloggers. Amazing percussive feet!
2pm Rob Rainer and Mary Lou Carroll. Folk, bluegrass, light classic rock, jazz, and bossa nova tunes.
Voyageur canoes
Launch at the ramp by the Cove on the hour.
Walking tour
Through the Village of Westport. See our business community's green initiatives and sample their delights.
Our sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors.
EcoFest 2025
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.
