Thank you to all those who participated in LCCC 2024!
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to everyone who attended and contributed to the success of our first Livable Cities, Collaborative Communities conference at TRU. Your engagement and passion for sustainability and resiliency helped make the event a success.
We are excited to announce that LCCC II will be held on February 20 and 21, 2025. We look forward to continuing these vital conversations on building more resilient and sustainable communities.
Against a confluence of global and local crises, including climate change, TRU aims to identify solutions for building a better future for all people and the planet by bringing together local and international parties for this vital discussion.
Stay tuned for updates, and we look forward to welcoming you to the campus.
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Kevin Loring
Kevin is N’lakapamux from the Lytton First Nation in the Fraser Canyon of British Columbia. He’s a graduate of Studio 58, Langara College’s Professional Theatre Training Program, and Full Circle First Nations Performance: Ensemble Training Program. He’s an actor, playwright, director, and the founding artistic director of Savage Society, a non profit dedicated to telling Indigenous stories. In 2017 Kevin was appointed as the first Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre of Canada. He is a recipient of TRU Distinguished Alumni Award in 2015.
LCCC 2025 Keynote speakers' presentation
Kevin Loring
All My Relations: How the Global Climate Catastrophe Affects Everyone and How Indigenous Ways of Being Can Save Us All.
About the conference
Following the success of the 2024 Livable Cities, Collaborative Communities Conference (LCCC), TRU is excited to host the next edition on February 20-21, 2025. This two-day event will focus on three key sustainability themes:
- Food systems and food security
- TRU and Kamloops City Council policy initiatives
- Indigenous initiatives
Day 1: will kick off with an inspiring keynote address on sustainability, setting the stage for in-depth roundtable discussions on the three core themes.
February 20, 10:00 - 11:15 a.m.
Keynote address: Kevin Loring
All My Relations: How the Global Climate Catastrophe Affects Everyone and How Indigenous Ways of Being Can Save Us All.
Introduction and chair: Robin Nicol, Theatre Program, Faculty of Arts.
Day 2: will provide interactive, hands-on workshops, allowing participants to dive deeper into these critical topics and explore practical solutions.
The primary goal of the roundtables and workshops is to develop public resources for the LCCC web page.
If you do not wish to participate in a roundtable or workshop, but would like to contribute a resource, this will be gratefully received. Contributions can take various forms, including, but not limited to, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, photo stories, narratives, essays, posters, interviews, or surveys.
The LCCC steering committee encourages undergraduate and graduate students as well as Indigenous youth to actively participate. LCCC seeks to share the widest possible range of voices and perspectives.
We invite you to be part of this important dialogue on sustainability and resiliency as we continue to work together toward building more livable cities and collaborative communities for all.
Welcome by Dr. Shannon Wagner, Interim Provost and Vice-President Academic
I am delighted to welcome you to TRU’s Livable Cities, Collaborative Communities project.
Livable Cities, Collaborative Communities (LCCC) is an ongoing collaboration bringing together faculty and students at TRU with industry, local and provincial government, community and Indigenous organizations on matters pertaining to sustainability and resilience. These matters are paramount as the region strives for greater decolonization, truth and reconciliation in the context of the environmental threats associated with climate change. By working together, we can collectively improve the health of our natural and social environments and ensure that all communities in the central interior of British Columbia, benefit.
In 2024, some 120 delegates joined keynote speakers Dr. Suzanne Simard (Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia), Dr. Mike Flannigan (BC Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science, TRU) and Seth Klein (Director of Strategy, Climate Emergency Unit) at LCCC I. Delegates shared their experiences and knowledge about sustainability and resiliency in central British Columbia through presentations, workshops and roundtables.
In 2025, around 90 delegates, including students and faculty from TRU, attended LCCC II. They listened to Dr. Kevin Loring (Nlaka’pamux from the Lytton First Nation in the Fraser Canyon of British Columbia) who gave the keynote address. Delegates explored together sustainability issues associated with food systems and food security, local policy initiatives, and Indigenous initiatives and began the task of building a bank of resources upon with other groups and organizations can draw in the future.
LCCC III will take place over two days in February 2026 and will comprise a keynote speaker and focused workshops with the goal of building a permanent website that hosts accessible and useful resources pertaining to sustainability and resiliency in a period of intensifying weather extremes and challenges to social cohesion. While the target audience is local communities in the interior of British Columbia, the resources will also be available to other communities, students, faculty, policy makers and advisors, and activists whether in British Columbia, Canada or around the world who might be interested in our regional initiatives, problems and successes.
Whether you are faculty, staff, student, or community group, I encourage you to reach out to the LCCC III team and join us on our path to supporting Livable Cities, Collaborative Communities in the central interior of British Columbia.
Dr. Shannon Wagner, Interim Provost and Vice-President Academic
