Patrick Lucas is writer, storyteller, public speaker, film maker and story consultant.
As the son of an officer in the Royal Canadian Airforce, Patrick grew up travelling and experiencing different communities and cultures, across Canada and Internationally. He continued this lifestyle as an adult living in British Columbia, Canada, China, and South East Asia.
Throughout his life he has used writing and storytelling to explore and understand the world around him. Through his writing Patrick explores themes of conscientious travel, community, culture, sacred places, and personal revelation to gain a greater understanding of how we create a sense of place and belonging. He has been extensively published as a travel writer, social commentator, feature writer for numerous magazines, and blogs.
Patrick is also a successful public speaker and storyteller with appearances at numerous festivals and conferences including the Flame Storytelling series, Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon, and the Vancouver International Fringe Festival.
Patrick has been featured in, as well as co-written, produced and advised as a story consultant on numerous film and television productions. His most recent projects included Anthill Film’s award-winning documentary series Return to Earth on Outside TV and a feature edit, Allies, on Redbull TV’s broadcast of the Crankworx Mountain Bike Festival.
Patrick is also the founder and director of the Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program, a trail planner and project coordinator with First Journey Trails and an award-winning community planner.
Media Profiles
The Indigenous Mountain Biker Building Sovereignty One Trail at a time JJ Lee | Montecristo Magazine | 2023
Can Trails Help Heal Scars of Colonialism Ryan Stuart | Beta MTB Magazine | Winter 2021
Healing Dirt: Building up communities, one bike trail at a time, with Patrick Lucas Ryan Stuart | CV Collective Magazine | Winter 2021.
Community First: Reviving an Ancestral Connection to the land Ryan Stuart | FreeHub Magazine | Spring 2020.
In Neuen Jagdgründen (In the New Hunting Grounds) Julia Hoffman | Bike Magazin (German) | August 2019.
Patrick Lucas’ Decolonizing Trails presentation has become a perennial fixture at the University of British Columbia, and his presentation is always the highlight of the course. It is not his voice that is centred, rather it is the stories of the youth, Elders, and communities that drive the plot.
Moss E. Norman, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology, UBC
Outspoken Cyclist with Diane Jenkins Cycling Independent Community Weekly Podcast.
What Mountain Biking has done for First Nation Communities in BC to Address Climate Change Front Lines Podcast.
Mountain Biking Helps Put BC First Nations Youth on a Positive Path Denise Ryan | Vancouver Sun.
Patrick is a powerful and effective storyteller. His engaging style and performance went beyond all expectations and delivered a webinar that really hit on many important issues within the trail, mountain biking, and the outdoor sector in general
Damyn Libby, Trails BC
Bringing Mountain Biking to First Nations Youth Vince Shuley | Pique News Magazine.
Digging for Reconciliation: Relationships with First Nation Communities Front Lines MTB Podcast Episode 4
Working with Indigenous Communities: Interview with Patrick Lucas Front Lines MTB Podcast Episode 43
World Premiere of Documentary Film on the BC-Based Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program Bike Retailer & Industry News
World Premiere of Documentary Film on the BC-Based Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program Trail Builder Magazine
Official Trailer for Dirt Relations: The Story of British Columbia’s Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program Pinkbike
Documentary chronicles the power of B.C.’s Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program North Shore News
Creators of the ‘Dirt Relations’ Film On Where Trailbuilding Meets Community Development Pinkbike
New Documentary, Dirt Relations, explores how mountain biking and trails leads to reconciliation CBC Daybreak
“Dirt Relations” comes to Nicola Valley Institute of Technology Merritt Herald
Valley resident champions reconciliation transforming one trail at a time Comox Valley Record
Dirt Relations shows us a better way at Williams Lake screening Williams Lake Tribune
Documentary tells story of Youth mountain bike program blazing trails in Simpcw and beyond Indigenews
Vancouver Islander champions reconciliation one trail at a time Vancouver Island Free Daily
Education & Training
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive with Mark L. Winston | 2021 & 2022
Going Under the Words: Creating Fiction & Memoir with Shaena Lambert | Hollyhock Institute | June 2019
The Writer’s Studio Graduate Workshop | Simon Fraser University | 2018
The Writer’s Studio Creative Writing Certificate Program | Simon Fraser University | 2017
Your Story, Your Voice – Storytelling Workshop with Deborah Williams | The Flame & the Vancouver International Fringe Festival | 2016
Corporate Storytelling with Paul Belserene | University of British Columbia Continue Education | 2015
Environmental Studies Bachelor of Arts Degree | University of Northern British Columbia | 2003