Closing Celebration: Nature Girl Screening 

Sunday September 28, 2025 | 6:00pm 

Free, Limited Capacity Register Below.

Celebrate the closing of the Festival with Candace Campo and Trent Maynard  as they share film, poetry and stories from the land, including highlights from their multi-year short film project Nature Girl.

The filmmaking duo spent five years getting to know the surprising species living in a wetland in the shíshálh Nation swiya, using motion sensor cameras. Nature Girl visits animal travel routes and gathering places on the Sunshine Coast, where intergenerational bear families use a scratch tree and watering hole, alongside elk, newts, frogs, owls and bats.  

Candace and Trent will engage in discussion and share about their upcoming work in clam gardens.  

About the Artists 
Candace Campo, ancestral name xets’emits’a (to always be there), is a shíshálh (Sechelt) member from the Sunshine Coast, BC. As the co-founder of Talaysay Tours with her spouse Larry, and now co-owned with their daughter Talaysay Campo, Candace provides Indigenous cultural and outdoor experiences. Trained as an anthropologist and teacher, she shares the stories and history of her people, focusing on Indigenous language and cultural revitalization. Candace’s mission is to train younger Indigenous members to connect with the land while running a successful intergenerational tour and education business. 

Trent Maynard is a writer, media artist, filmmaker, and citizen scientist, of mixed settler Canadian ancestry, including Germanic, Celtic & English. They were born and raised and live as a guest between Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation and shíshálh Nation lands. Their art practice makes relationships with ecosystems and multispecies fellow citizens, using motion-sensor cameras, word art, filmmaking and storytelling collaborations.