The Free Fair is an extension of Free Store events originally organized by the Saint John Community Coalition. The Free Store served as a model for operating a more just society. It is based on the principles of mutual aid, where people cooperate to meet the needs of fellow community members. At the last Free Fair event community members provided services such as hair cuts, counseling, tax preparation, and educational services such as workshops on unions, housing, and food security. The space also turns into a community hangout with art, games and music. Check out the the Saint John Community Coalition website, follow them on IG, and sign up here to participate in the 2026 Free Fair on August 22.

The Fruits Collective is a group of queer, trans, and allied softball players. The Collective was created to build community, have fun, and resist transphobia in organised sport. Follow the collective on IG, and donate to their amazing fundraiser for the chance to win some fantastic prizes and support a worthy cause!

A zine reading on the intersection of anarchy, BLM, and the George Floyd uprising

Harland Bird is one of the co-founders of the Victoria Tenants Union, a tenant-led, democratic movement organizing around the idea that good quality, affordable, accessible, and secure housing is a human right and should not be a commodity or an investment for the purpose of profit. Check out the Union's website, and follow them on IG.

In Pizza Before We Die, Gaza resident Hassan Kanafani writes about his experience on the frontlines of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The book was written with Victoria’s own award-winning author and musician Yasuko Thanh. This was recorded on May 9, 2026, at the Masjid Al-Iman mosque in Victoria, where Yasuko gave a live reading of excerpts from the book. Buy it here, and follow Yasuko on IG.

Amber Lowry is the sister of Prairieland political prisoner Savannah Batten, who was recently convicted along with 13 other people in U.S. Federal Court of "providing material support for terrorism," for holding a noise demonstration outside an ICE detention facility in Texas in 2025. Read more about the case and support these prisoners at the Prairieland Defense Committee website.

Dr. Mark Antliff is Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Department at Duke University. His publications include Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde (1993); Cubism and Culture (co-authored with Patricia Leighten) (2001); Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France (2007); and Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde (2021) His article Why War? Debating Pacifism during the Spanish Civil War is free to read in the November 2025 issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies.

Emmett Doyle is a carpenter, former river deckhand, and lifelong music maker based in Minnesota. He joined Seeds to talk to us about the incredible anti-fascist community organizing in opposition to ICE's terror campaign in Minneapolis. Check out Emmett's website, follow him on IG, and listen to his amazing music here.

Dr. Shamma Boyarin and students Chasida, Luke, and Ryan discuss the class they took together at the University of Victoria this past semester.

The class asked what can religious anarchists teach about secularism vs religion? When and where does anarchism start? Can a person work for collective liberation while maintaining a connection to a specific religious tradition or community? What does it mean to view mutual aid as the core of all Jewish practice?

Dr. Audrey Yap is a Professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria. Jose Toruno-Luquez is a community researcher who is currently on parole and who has lived experience with incarceration. They join us on Seeds to discuss how patriarchy and patriarchal violence is an inherent part of carceral systems.