BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:i-event-42985 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 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 WEEK 6 — MAR 12–13 WATER REMEMBERS M Archive: Archive of Ocean — Origin Hospicing Modernity: There Is No Away LAND PRACTICE Trace runoff and pooling Follow water without correcting it QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Where does water go when it leaves here? What do we send “away” that never leaves? What water are you from? CREATIVE PRACTICES Watershed self-portraits Sound mapping of drip, flow, saturation Blue-line memory maps SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone guides the water walk Someone offers a reflection WEEK 7 — MAR 19–20 TENDING WITHOUT CERTAINTY M Archive: Baskets — Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven Hospicing Modernity: Mapping Horizons of Possibility LAND PRACTICE Mulching and soil repair QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What are we willing to tend without guarantees? How do we care without controlling outcomes? CREATIVE PRACTICES Basket pages: futures unnamed Collective language weaving Lists of responsibilities, not goals SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides mulch depth Someone names what “enough” feels like WEEK 8 — MAR 26–27 STAYING AS THINGS FALL APART M Archive: Fragments & Offerings Hospicing Modernity: As Things Fall Apart / Returning Home / Getting to Zero LAND PRACTICE Site walk: before/after noticing Documentation, not celebration QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What responsibility remains? Where is home when nothing is finished? What does “zero” feel like in the body? CREATIVE PRACTICES Collective statements of responsibility Archiving fragments (text, drawings, maps) Silence as practice SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides what is archived Someone closes the circle Someone invites stillness LOCATION:Daybreak Star DTSTART:20260326T110000 DTEND:20260326T143000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR