Other Community Meetings of Note
Thursday, March 20
OLYMPIA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL SPEAKER SERIES
Join Susan Wilburn, consultant to the WHO and leader in the global environmental health community, as she discusses a planet free of harm from chemicals and plastic pollution. Susan currently represents health sector civil society on the Bureau of the Global Framework on Chemicals actively contributing to the global regulation of chemicals and waste management.
WHEN: THURS. MAR. 20 @ 7:30 PM
DOORS OPEN AT 7 PM FOR MEET & GREET
WHERE: LACEY SPSCC CAMPUS & ZOOM
4220 6TH AVE SE, LACEY WA
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.olympiawac.org
Wednesday, March 26
SAVE OUR WILD SALMON COALITION
An Evening of Art and Poetry on March 26th
Traditions | 300 5th Ave SW, Olympia
5:30 - 6:30 pm - Reception with light refreshments
6:30 - 7:45 pm - Program
Space is limited for this free event.
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Join us to hear poetry and prose from...
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Rachel Clark, author of "The Blackfish Prophecy." Rachel is a writer and biologist. She is on an all-out quest to convey the wonders of nature, while pointing out the serious problems of our very bad habit of dominating others and the Earth. She’s been a card-carrying science writer for twenty years.
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Kathleen Bryd, MFA. She is poet and writing teacher who resides in Olympia, Washington, within the territory and lands of the Coast Salish People. Her book of poems, Last Resort, was published by Last Word Press in spring of 2024. She is the fourth poet laureate of Olympia, where she engages the community with the literary arts connecting to themes of climate change and place.
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Jessica Gigot, PhD, MFA. She is a poet, farmer, and writing coach. She lives on a little sheep farm in the Skagit Valley. Her second book of poems, Feeding Hour (Wandering Aengus Press, 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 Washington State Book Award. Jessica’s writing and reviews appear in several publications, such as the New York Times, Seattle Times, Orion, Ecotone, Terrain.org, and Poetry Northwest.
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Audrey Sterud Miller, lives on the homelands of her people, the Puyallup Nation. A busy high school student, she spends her free time writing poetry and stories, acting in plays, and singing.
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Allen Braden, MFA. His poetry is published in The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Georgia Review. He was poet-in-residence for the Poetry Center and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now teaches at Tacoma Community College.
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Rabbi Seth Goldstein, serves Temple Beth Hatfiloh and the Jewish community of Olympia, Washington. He is both committed to creating vibrant Jewish community and using a spiritual voice and poetry to speak to issues of social justice and common concern.
About the Featured Artist
Gabriel Newton is an artist and Orca advocate. He grew up on the rim of Rock Creek Canyon, a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho and has now lived by the Salish Sea, home of the Southern Resident Orcas, for over 20 years. Leading up to this evening event, Gabriel will kayak over three days from Seattle to Olympia to deliver hundreds of postcards from Washington citizens and gift an original piece of his 46-piece collection of ‘orca artwork’ to the Governor.
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Wendy Gerstel has worked as a federal, state and independent geologist/engineering geologist over the past 45 years, primarily in the Puget Sound region. Her current efforts focus on lessening the impacts of practices that increase the risk of landslide and erosion which can threaten human life, property, and critical habitat.
