Peers Victoria’s 2025 speaker series on the toxic drug crisis concludes March 26 with a discussion featuring past and present substance users alongside harm reduction advocate Guy Felicella.
The event will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at First Metropolitan Church in Victoria (932 Balmoral Rd.) and will focus on personal experiences of recovery and wellness.
Participants will share their perspectives on how B.C.’s substance-use supports have both helped and hindered them.
Keynote speakers include Sekani Dalketh, a two-spirit trans woman and facilitator known for bringing substance users and service providers together to address stigma, and Ann Livingston, a long-time activist who co-founded the Vancouver and Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) and played a key role in establishing Canada’s first government-sanctioned safe injection site in 2003.
This marks the final event in Peers Victoria’s speaker series, Out of Harm’s Way: Insight, Innovation and Action to End the Toxic Drug Crisis. The event is free and open to the public.
More information is available on safersexwork.ca.
