Kelowna Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists Association
Kelowna Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists Association is a non-partisan body that seeks to foster a secular community guided by reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanistic values.
We are a community of freethinking people who put on events, workshops, and conferences and work to promote critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning in Kelowna and the Okanagan for greater community and cooperation.
At KASHA we focus on these areas:
1. Human Rights
2. Science
3. Education.
4. Secular Humanism
In all of these areas, we work to promote a scientific and secular humanist life stance, one that challenges established norms and customs and one that believes in the freedom of all individuals to ask important questions about life, nature, and the world around them.
History Statement – KASHA recognizes the long and varied human history of settlement, exploitation, systemic racism, and environmental change over the land that we now call the Okanagan and Canada.
Diversity Statement – KASHA embraces all human diversity that evolution has bestowed upon us. We welcome all genders, sexual orientations, and the beautiful medley of homo sapiens to come sit, discuss and change the world with us.
A Brighter Future – It is only with our focused determination for reasoned and rational change that we will build a better and brighter future for the coming generations.
Governance
Dan Ryder died on Sunday, December 8, 2024, at home with his beloved wife, Zena, and their kids, Ben and Julia. Dan died a couple of weeks after celebrating his 53rd birthday with a family re-watch of The Empire Strikes Back. He’s survived by his wife and children, his parents Tom and Wendie, and many […]
It has come to our attention that the City of Kelowna has once again requested the Knights of Columbus to erect a religious nativity scene in a downtown public park. The Kelowna Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists Association (KASHA) acknowledges that nativity scenes are part of a Christian folklore tradition associated with end-of-year celebrations. We also […]
The Unsettled Settler By Don Gayton I am working on a book manuscript, entitled Settler Stories. The book’s initial premise was this: Indigenous peoples around the world use story as a means to connect with their local nature and ecosystems, but we Settlers do not have equivalent stories. So I began an attempt to write some, […]
