The Pacific Rim Whale Festival is an annual event celebrating the return of Pacific Grey Whales to the West coast of Vancouver Island on their Northern migration route. The week-long festival hosts a number of fun events throughout Tofino, Ucluelet, and the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

Contemporary Indigenous hip hop cross genre fusionists The Melawmen Collective, officially released their first studio recorded album, “Fire In The Lake”, on September 26th 2025, at the 2 Rivers Remix Festival, and are now embarking on the first leg in a series of tours starting on Vancouver Island, leading to the Southern Interior of BC. […]

Explore local ecosystems through guided walks, cultural experiences, creative workshops, and restoration activities. Take part in the coast-wide BioBlitz using iNaturalist and help document the incredible species around us. All events invite curiosity, connection, and participation in caring for place. Most events are free, with select ticketed sessions.

As you may have heard, Redd Fish is embarking on a new project called the Stewardship Centre. Since purchasing 1728 Peninsula Rd (the old Murray’s Grocery building), we have secured some funding to renovate the building into a facility for visitors and community members. We have been working hard over the last year preparing for […]

One Harbour. Three Cultures. One Shared Story. Join the Ucluelet & Area Historical Society for the official opening of the Ucluelet Japanese Canadian History Pavilion, a new interpretive site overlooking Ucluelet Harbour, where one of British Columbia's most significant Japanese Canadian fishing communities once flourished. During the 1930s, Japanese Canadian families made up half of […]

The annual Dustin Riley Memorial Soap Box Derby is Ucluelet's premier gravity racing event. Typically held in September, the race takes place on a transformed Bay Street, where local youth zoom down a closed-off hill in custom-built or DIY soap box cars.