You’re invited to our virtual Environmental Sensitivities/Multiple Chemical Sensitivity ES/MCS Awareness Month “Illuminate Canada Yellow 2026” from Coast to Coast to Coast across Canada now with an international flair on May 1, 2026 until May 12, and a wrap up on May 13.
This is a self‑paced online event you can join anytime from the safety of your own space—no live video and no need to leave home.
Learn about the work of Angelique Ashton (The Canary Project / #IlluminateAmericaYellow), Ginette Langevin’s international Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Global Empowerment, Awareness, and Reclaim Project, the UK MCS Aware and their wear yellow and green awareness drive, along with our featured musicians. Proclamations on May 12.
Over 50 landmarks will be illuminated yellow! Snap a few photos of landmarks in your area.
Sponsored by the Environmental Health Association of Manitoba.
• Marie LeBlanc – artist & advocate: (link to the landmarks being lit)
You can also take yellow photos of your own (yellow clothing, lights, or anything bright and hopeful) and share them on social media, tagging our event page and hashtags. #IlluminateCanadaYellow2026
Marie LeBlanc is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist. Through photography, multimedia projection, short film, performance and wordsmithing she explores themes related to landscape, isolation, beauty, health and nature. Capturing faces, shapes, shadows and reflections with digital and on-camera effects, often superimposing her own reflection, she seeks to embrace the present moment and the ethereal world around her.
Originally from Northern Manitoba, she lived in Winnipeg before recently relocating to Alberta. In the winter months, she travels to the U.S. desert in a cargo van adapted for safe housing to ease the symptoms of Environmental Illness (referred to as Environmental Sensitivities in Canada). Because the illness remains an unrecognizable and misunderstood diagnosis, her work intends to self-advocate and bring awareness to the related struggles faced by so many. LeBlanc’s most important awareness project to date, WHO says we need fresh air?! has travelled throughout Manitoba, to Edmonton, Jasper and Arizona. Quotes from individuals across the globe afflicted by Environmental Illness are projected onto buildings, structures, billboards, screens and monitors.
LeBlanc holds a Bachelor of Arts in Human Geography and Sociology from the University of Manitoba. She has participated in the Making Our Mark II Printmaking Mentorship Program at Martha Street Studio, the Artist In Residency Program at Artbeat Studio and the Art Salon Program at Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba (AANM). Her story and artwork have been featured in interviews and articles throughout Western Canada, in Quartzsite (Arizona) and with MCS Aware (UK). She was recently awarded Microgrants from Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art and AANM for the completion of Overdressed.
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