Wednesday, May 10 · 10am - 3pm PDT
Location: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center 5011 Bernie Whitebear Way Seattle, WA 98199
Join Communities of Opportunity (COO) and Robin Wall Kimmerer for this all partner convening as we explore how we may cultivate healing within ourselves, within our relationships with others and our communities, and in our connection to the broader natural world.
This will be an opportunity for new PBCC and SPC partners to share space, find inspiration, and consider how we may ground ourselves while we work for broader systems and policy change.
Accessibility:
Lunch will be buffet style: Wild Rice Bowls (protein options are: braised bison, chicken and seasonal veggies), naked frybread (contains gluten and dairy) and kale side salad.
The building and meeting space itself is accessible for wheelchair users, there are no stairs from the outside entrance area to the main meeting space. The building is about a 10 minute walk from the main parking lots.
Transportation & Parking:
Parking: There are limited parking spaces in front of Daybreak Star and priority will be given to those who need it. There is additional parking alongside the side of the road (Bernie Whitebear Way) as well as in the Discovery Park North Parking Lot, which is a .6 mile walk to Daybreak Star.
Shuttle: We will be coordinating a shuttle to and from Tukwila Park & Ride and King Street Station. To reserve a space on the shuttle, please indicate your interest on the registration form by April 26th to guarantee a spot.
Tukwila Park & Ride: Pick up at 9am, Return around 4pm
King Street Station: Pick up at 9:30am, Return around 3:30pm
Public Transportation: To travel by Seattle Metro Bus, take #33 towards Magnolia from 4th and Pike/Pine to the final stop. Follow the signs directing the .4 mile walk to Daybreak Star.
Do you have other accessibility needs or questions? Please email may@cascadiaconsulting.com
COVID safety:
We encourage rapid testing for COVID within 24 hours of the gathering event. If you need a test, please reach out to: may@cascadiaconsulting.com. Test results will not be asked about.
Wearing masks indoors is encouraged! We will have surgical masks available at the event for those who need one.
If it’s nice out, we can utilize the outdoor space for eating lunch.
If you have any symptoms or known exposures to COVID (or the flu, etc.) please stay home, and we will look forward to connecting in-person in the near future!
About Robin Wall Kimmerer
Photo credit: Dale Kakkak
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.