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  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,664.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $5,196.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $4,880.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $4,564.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $2,600.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $2,440.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,280.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,116.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,920.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,920.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,920.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,900.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $3,600.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,760.00
    • (All prices include CAD $1,660.00 base amount)

Date & Time Details:
Starts with dinner on September 17, 2025
Ends with lunch on September 21, 2025

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $1200 CAD

Rooms & Meals: Campus rates include accommodations, meals, Hollyhock activities, use of hot tubs and campus facilities (does not include tuition). Click here for details.

Scholarships: Scholarship applications for SVI 2025 opens in Spring 2025. Hollyhock recognizes that economic opportunity is not currently equal for all; we encourage and welcome anyone registering for a program to apply for a scholarship.

SVI Mobile : Embrace stress-free travel by booking our all-inclusive charter package, which covers transportation, ferry rides, a water taxi adventure across the Salish Sea, and a shuttle service to and from campus. Our chartered bus, ferry, and water taxi will provide you with a scenic and hassle-free route to the Hollyhock campus. Sign up and details coming soon.

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Social Venture Institute 2025 – Hollyhock

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Vanessa Richards

September 17 - 21, 2025

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Together, we’ll continue to create positive change and make a difference. See you in 2025 for the 30th anniversary of SVI!

Presenters

Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Hollyhock’s renowned events help to resolve the leadership deficits of the modern world. These cross-sectoral and multi-generational gatherings work to support and catalyze progressive leaders through strengthening skills, expanding capacity, and building peer-to-peer networks and knowledge. Tackling the largest issues of our time and promoting social and environmental justice requires…
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Vanessa Richards
Vanessa Richards, born in Vancouver, director of Creative Together, works as an artist and facilitator. Her practices encourage the personal and civic imagination towards positive social change and sustainability. Since the 1990’s she has been devising and delivering arts-based engagement, education and programming through collaboration with community programmes, universities, unions, cultural organizations, health care…
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