Story & Song

Story & Song

Lummi Nation and Lummi Islanders will gather to share story, song, and salmon. Lummi Hereditary Chief Bill Jame, Lawrence (Happy) Solomon, the Ballew family with the Basket Lady Dance, the Blackhawk Singers, fiddler Bryan Thurber, and Ingrid McGarry with the Beach...
Stand & Resist

Stand & Resist

Artists protect the Salish Sea. Imani Sims, Rena Priest, Tracy Rector, Nahaan, Robert Lashley, Dana Lyons and I will be performing on Wednesday, 29 March at this event hosted by Stand.earth.  In Bellingham. Whatcom Museum Rotunda Room, 121 Prospect Street, at 7pm,...
Environmental Heroes

Environmental Heroes

I was a featured speaker, along with Darrell Hillaire and Matt Krogh, at this year’s Environmental Heroes Banquet in Bellingham. The Heroes honored this year were the Communities and Peoples of the Salish Sea, for our collective efforts in stopping North...
Give Good Read

Give Good Read

Featured speaker at Whatcom Writers and Publishers, Bellingham, October, 2016.  I talked about the pleasures (for both readers and audience) of sharing the stage, equity, brevity, and interdisciplinary events. And selling books out of the back of one’s...
Writing Place: a Reading

Writing Place: a Reading

Island Library, Lummi Island, WA, 2016. Featured speaker at the library’s annual event. Spoke about the place where I write (Lummi Island), places I write about (islands of all kinds), and the connection between writing and place....