BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:i-event-42973 SUMMARY: Event Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:These gatherings are a place to return to the land, to reconnect with Indigenous teachings, and to be in community with each other in ways that are rooted, relational, and real. They’re about Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural memory, and reclaiming the right to care for land in the ways our ancestors always have. Led by community members and organizers with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, this work centers Indigenous knowledge systems and relationships with land that have existed here since time immemorial—and that continue, despite every attempt to erase them. The Forest Garden is growing with care—planted with camas, salmonberry, huckleberry, wild strawberry, nettle, cedar, and other Native plants that are more than food and medicine—they’re our teachers, our elders, and our ancestors. These plants are being tended not just for harvest, but to support the many Indigenous-centered programs at UIATF: elder meals, youth programming, cultural wellness, and more. This is one way we practice sovereignty—by feeding ourselves, our people, and our spirits in alignment with our values. In a time when many of us are searching for where to belong and how to show up—this is a space to meet one another, build real relationships, and map the power we already hold together. Let’s gather not just to work the land—but to connect, share our stories, and remember that we are each other’s safety, each other’s strength, and each other’s solution. We will be preparing for our OPTIONAL book and film series in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. February - March we will be reading "M-Archive" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Both books can be found on Libby or Audible. (We are including this list, just incase people want to join in, or engage at a different time. No pressure. Everyone is invited to participate in a created practices and conversations. We are intentionally making this accessible even if folks aren't able to read the text.) WEEK 1 — FEB 5–6 ENTERING THE RECORD M Archive: Archive of Dirt — What We Did Hospicing Modernity: A Single Story of “Forward” LAND PRACTICE Walk the site without touching Notice soil, slope, water, plants Identify ivy, blackberry, laurel QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What stories are already written here? What happened before we arrived? Who decided what “progress” looked like? CREATIVE PRACTICES (CHOOSE) Touch drawing with soil or charcoal Mapping: What We Did / What Was Done Here Writing fragments that begin with “Before us…” WEEK 2 — FEB 12–13 ENTANGLEMENT M Archive: Dirt → Fire Hospicing Modernity: The House of Modernity LAND PRACTICE Ivy cut-and-roll Stack ivy for compost—nothing disappears QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What was built to help but now causes harm? When does protection turn into suffocation? What systems promised safety? CREATIVE PRACTICES String/rope mapping of entanglement Writing or drawing from the forest floor’s view Diagrams of “houses” we were taught to trust SHARED LEADERSHIP A participant demonstrates ivy technique Someone decides when enough is enough Someone explains why ivy is not “thrown away” WEEK 3 — FEB 19–20 DEFENSE & URGENCY M Archive: Archive of Fire — Rate of Change Hospicing Modernity: Faster Than Thought LAND PRACTICE Blackberry cutting and root crown removal Work slower than instinct QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who taught us to hurry? What does urgency cost bodies and land? When is speed useful—and when is it violence? CREATIVE PRACTICES Timed writing + intentional pauses Charcoal or ink gesture marks Breath tracking during labor SHARED LEADERSHIP Participants sets the pace Someone calls a collective pause Someone reflects on urgency aloud WEEK 4 — FEB 26–27 LIGHT, SHADE, & POWER M Archive: Fire → Archive of Sky — What We Became Hospicing Modernity: Surrendering Arrogance LAND PRACTICE Laurel identification and management Observe changes in light and moisture QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who gets access to light? What thrives when dominance loosens? Where do our assumptions fail? CREATIVE PRACTICES Light/shadow mapping Writing from an understory plant’s voice Sky-based metaphors for becoming LEADERSHIP OPENINGS Someone interprets the light shift Someone chooses where not to intervene WEEK 5 — MAR 5–6 DECAY AS CARE M Archive: Dirt (Revisited) Hospicing Modernity: Living and Dying Well LAND PRACTICE Build or turn compost piles Layer with intention QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH How do we care for what is ending? What deserves gentleness even in removal? What does dignity look like in decay? CREATIVE PRACTICES Letters to what is being composted One-sentence writing (only what is necessary) Temperature, smell, time journaling LOCATION:Daybreak Star DTSTART:20260212T110000 DTEND:20260212T143000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR