Qualifications

Recent Performances

Qualifications

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Recent Performances:

May 2005 Keynote speakers at the Kachemak Kayak Festival, Homer, Alaska, - Sacred Water and Visions of the Wild
April 2005 - Ridge Theatre, Vancouver, - Vietnam: Off the Beaten Track - 700 tickets sold
March 2005 - touring BC with Lambing Season in Ireland.
Feb. 2005 - Fund raiser for WINGS, Edmonton, AB with Vietnam: Off the Beaten Track
Nov. 2004 - Two keynote addresses at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. with Sacred Water and Visions of the Wild
June 2004 - Keynote address at Canadian Camera Conference. with Sacred Water
Feb. 2004 - Richmond, Virginia, , as representatives of the Banff Mountain Speakers Bureau, with Sacred Water

Nov. 2003 The Banff Mountain Summit, , with Sacred Water
Oct. 2003 The Florida Readers Association Conference, Orlando, with Jungle Islands
July 2003 The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt, BC, with Visions of the Wild and Sacred Water.
March-April 2003, 24 appearances across BC with Visions of the Wild and Sacred Water.

Qualifications:

Dag Goering qualified as a veterinarian in Germany, completed a doctorate on fish diseases in 1987 and subsequently served as a program coordinator and instructor for 4 years at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo. Maria Coffey studied at the University of Liverpool, England, graduating in 1973 with a BA Honours Degree in Geography and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education. She has had 12 years experience teaching Social Studies and ESL at high school and college level in England, Peru and Canada.

In 1991, a year-long around-the-world kayak expedition launched Dag and Maria into a life of freelance adventure journalism. From their home base on Protection Island, BC, they have been exploring, living and working in various far-flung corners of the globe, from Vietnam to the Solomon Islands to the West Coast of Ireland. They have recorded their experiences in several books, including A Boat in Our Baggage: Around the World with a Kayak (1994), Three Moons in Vietnam (1996), Sailing Back in Time (1996) and Visions of the Wild: A Voyage by Kayak around Vancouver Island (2001). Maria has also written Fragile Edge: Loss on Everest, and several books for children. Her most recent book, Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure, won the Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature at the 2003 Banff Mountain Book Festival and a 2004 National Outdoor Book Award.

Dag’s photographs have been internationally published in books and prominent newspapers and periodicals including National Geographic Adventure Magazine, Elle Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, Action Asia, and Outdoors Illustrated. In November 2004, The Banff Centre hosted his solo exhibition, Sacred Water.