Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Mar
17
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Sebastopol, CA!

Sunday, March 17, 2024 from 9am-3pm

Come and connect with the community and the land as we focus on our Native plant work and riparian (wetland near a stream) zone management. Activities may include seed saving, Native plant restoration, weeding, and more. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another.

Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond.

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To reserve your spot, please visit Eventbrite here.

Once you register, you will receive an email with more information about the day and location.

If you have questions or difficulty accessing the registration link, please email alexis@nativeland.org.

To learn more about our Indigenous land project – Heron Shadow – visit www.nativeland.org/heron-shadow.

We're excited to share this special space with you this season!

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TEK Basket Weaving Workshop with Redbird Willie
Feb
18
10:00 AM10:00

TEK Basket Weaving Workshop with Redbird Willie

Please join us and learn to weave a utility tule basket using traditional California techniques with traditional Pomo weaver Redbird Willie at The Cultural Conservancy's Native land project Heron Shadow in Sebastopol, CA. All weaving supplies and tools will be provided!

Sunday, February 18, 2024 from 10am-4pm

Workshop fee: By donation

Please bring a lunch, snacks will be provided.

There are a limited number of participant spots available and an RSVP is required to attend.

Once you have reserved your spot through Eventbrite, you will receive an email with the location address and additional details about the day. If you have any questions, feel free to email alexis@nativeland.org.

To learn more about Heron Shadow please visit www.nativeland.org/heron-shadow

We're excited to share this special space with you!

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Jan
28
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Sebastopol, CA!


Sunday, January 28, 2024 from 9am-3pm

Come and connect with the community and the land as we focus on our Native plant work and riparian (wetland near a stream) zone management. Activities may include seed saving, Native plant restoration, weeding, and more. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another.

Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond.

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To reserve your spot, please click the ticket link on this page or visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/january-farm-volunteer-day-at-heron-shadow-registration-800226618357 fbclid=IwAR1cuJLULMmvL22aeKznC5Yt4S3gwLrR_al7VR8AKCTnUyl4eFG9vre-ykw

Once you register, you will receive an email with more information about the day and location.

If you have questions or difficulty accessing the registration link, please email alexis@nativeland.org.

To learn more about our Indigenous land project – Heron Shadow – visit www.nativeland.org/heron-shadow.

We're excited to share this special space with you this season!

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Dec
17
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow land and farm in Sebastopol, CA.

Join us to connect with the community and the land as we close out our growing season. Activities may include harvesting squash and melons, processing black walnuts, Native plant restoration, weed pulling, and more. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another.

Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond. 

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To register, click here.

Once you register, you will receive a follow-up email with more information about the day and location!

Feel free to also share the Facebook event page  with your community! To learn more about our land project please visit our Heron Shadow page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email joshua@nativeland.org

We're excited to share this special space with you this season! 

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Nov
4
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow land and farm in Sebastopol, CA.

Join us to connect with the community and the land as we close out our growing season. Activities may include harvesting squash and melons, processing black walnuts, Native plant restoration, weed pulling, and more. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another.

Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond. 

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To register, click here.

Once you register, you will receive a follow-up email with more information about the day and location!

Feel free to also share the Facebook event page  with your community! To learn more about our land project please visit our Heron Shadow page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email joshua@nativeland.org

We're excited to share this special space with you this season! 

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Heron Shadow Farm Voluteer Day
Aug
27
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Voluteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow land and farm in Sebastopol, CA.

Come out for a day of fun & learning at the height of our growing season. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another. Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond. 

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To register, click here.

Once you register, you will receive a follow-up email with more information about the day and location!

Feel free to also share the Facebook event page  with your community! To learn more about our land project please visit our Heron Shadow page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email joshua@nativeland.org

We're excited to share this special space with you this season! 

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Jul
30
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow land and farm in Sebastopol, CA.

Come out for a day of fun & learning as we enter the height of our growing season. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another. Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond. 

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To register, click here.

Once you register, you will receive a follow-up email with more information about the day and location!

Feel free to also share the Facebook event page  with your community! To learn more about our land project please visit our Heron Shadow page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email joshua@nativeland.org

We're excited to share this special space with you this season! 

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
May
27
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Graton, CA!

Come out for a day of fun & learning as we prepare to enter the planting season. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another. Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond. 

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To register, click here.

Once you register, you will receive a follow-up email with more information about the day and location!

Feel free to also share the Facebook event page  with your community! To learn more about our land project please visit our Heron Shadow page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email joshua@nativeland.org

We're excited to share this special space with you this season! 

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 Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Apr
23
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Graton, CA!

Come out for a day of fun & learning as we prepare to enter the planting season. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another. Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond. 

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To register, click here.

Once you register, you will receive a follow-up email with more information about the day and location!

Feel free to also share the Facebook event page  with your community! To learn more about our land project please visit our Heron Shadow page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email joshua@nativeland.org

We're excited to share this special space with you this season! 

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Mar
26
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Graton, CA!

Come out for a day of fun & learning as we prepare to enter the planting season. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another. Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond. 

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To register, click here.

Once you register, you will receive a follow-up email with more information about the day and location!

Feel free to also share the Facebook event page  with your community! To learn more about our land project please visit our Heron Shadow page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email joshua@nativeland.org

We're excited to share this special space with you this season! 

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Saturday Cinema at the Exploratorium | Seed Mother: Coming Home
Mar
25
1:00 PM13:00

Saturday Cinema at the Exploratorium | Seed Mother: Coming Home

This Saturday, our film Seed Mother: Coming Home will be screening at the Exploratorium in SF, as a part of their new ¡Plantásticas!: Our Lives with Plants exhibit. We're excited to be screening alongside the short Native to Right Here: The Plants Animals and People of Tuushtak, which features our partners Ohlone cultural leaders Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino in the hills below their most sacred peak, Tuushtak, aka Mount Diablo. Come on out!

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Feb
18
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Graton, CA!

- Saturday, February 18, 2023 from 9am-3pm -

Come out for a day of fun & learning as we prepare to enter the planting season. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another. Your support will help us prepare for an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond.

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To reserve your spot, please click the ticket link on this page or visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/farm-volunteer-day-at-heron-shadow-registration-531251195627


Once you register, you will receive an email with more information about the day and location.

If you have questions or difficulty accessing the registration link, please email joshua@nativeland.org.

To learn more about our Indigenous land project visit our Heron Shadow page.

We're excited to share this special space with you this season!

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Heron Shadow Farm Community Volunteer Day
Aug
20
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Community Volunteer Day

Please join us for a community volunteer day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Graton, CA!

Come out for a day of fun & learning as prepare to enter the harvest season. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land and one another. Your support will help us continue our an abundant season of food and seed distribution to Native community partners across the Bay Area and beyond.

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To reserve your spot, please click this free ticket link.

Once you register, you will receive an email with more information about the day and location.

If you have questions or difficulty accessing the registration link, please email arlene@nativeland.org.

To learn more about our Indigenous land project – Heron Shadow – visit www.nativeland.org/heron-shadow.

We're excited to share this special space with you this season!

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Los Guardianes del Maíz - An Evening of Food, Film & Community - with the projection of Seed Mother: Coming Home
Apr
9
7:00 PM19:00

Los Guardianes del Maíz - An Evening of Food, Film & Community - with the projection of Seed Mother: Coming Home

Join us for Los Guardianes del Maíz - An Evening of Food, Film & Community to benefit Brava! for Women in the Arts. The evening features screenings of Gustavo Vazquez’s award-winning documentary film Los Guardianes del Maíz and directors Mateo Hinojosa and Rowen White’s 7-minute short, Seed Mother: Coming Home. The screenings will be directly followed by the panel discussion “Keeping Native Corn” with the filmmakers and Chef Dominica Rice-Cisneros of Oakland’s famed restaurant Bombera. 

There will also be a limited-seating, pre-performance reception in Brava’s Lobby featuring Oaxacan dishes from award-winning Bay Area chefs along with a mezcal tasting.

See below for full details on the evening’s events.

5:30PMRECEPTION IN BRAVA’S LOBBY
(Tickets for the reception portion of the evening are SOLD OUT)

Dine on Oaxacan dishes from award-winning local chefs Dominica Rice-Cisneros of Bombera, Rosa Martinez of Origen, Francisco Camacho and Eduardo Antonio of Café de Olla, Val Cantu of Californios, Isai Cuevas of Donají, and Emmanuel Galvan of Bolita Masa. The food will be accompanied by a mezcal tasting sponsored by chefs Jorge Martínez and Lorena Zertuche of Lolo.

 

7:00PM – SCREENINGS OF LOS GUARDIANES DEL MAÍZ and SEED MOTHER: COMING HOME

Los Guardianes del Maíz official trailer

Join us for the screening of Gustavo Vazquez’ documentary film Los Guardianes del Maíz (Keepers of the Corn) the story of native corn told by the indigenous farmers, artisans and cooks in Mexico whose ancestors shepherded the ever-evolving seeds from the dawn of agriculture into the 21st Century. These voices are joined by community leaders, scientists, chefs, and others whose knowledge and activism stand not only in defense of food sovereignty and the genetic integrity, diversity, and community ownership of native seeds, but in defense of a durable cultural legacy and a way of life. In Spanish, Zapotec and Chinantec with English subtitles (Vazquez & Barbieri, 2020, 60 min.). Proceeding the film is the 7-minute short, Seed Mother: Coming Home, a poetic embodiment of the Indigenous Seed Rematriation movement from directors Mateo Hinojosa and Rowen White.

 

8:15PM – PANEL DISCUSSION “KEEPING NATIVE CORN” WITH Q&A

Open to all ticket holders, the panel discussion “Keeping Native Corn” features panelists: Dominica Rice-Cisneros – Chef of Oakland’s famed restaurant Bombera; Yira Vallejo – Associate producer and founder of Maíz Nation; Jonathan Barbieri – Artist and Executive Producer Los Guardianes del Maíz; and Gustavo Vazquez – Independent filmmaker/Professor Film & Digital Media UCSC.

Moderated by Chelis Lopez  Journalist/Radio Bilingüe, Indómitas podcast and Pájaro Latinoamericano.

TICKETS

$75 VIP Ticket  SOLD OUT

$20 General Admission  screening and panel discussion only

$10 Student Admission screening and panel discussion only


Brava has undertaken appropriate modifications to comply with current health and safety protocols provided by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. These measures include requiring proof of vaccinationbooster shot if eligible, and mandatory face covering that completely covers nose and mouth, secured with ear loops or head strap (gaiters and bandanas are not acceptable), increased cleaning before performances, and a no-touch or low-touch experience. Read Brava’s full Covid Protocol here.

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Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day
Mar
26
9:00 AM09:00

Heron Shadow Farm Volunteer Day

Please join us for our first public volunteer work day at The Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow Farm in Graton, CA!

- Saturday March 26 from 9am - 3pm -

Come out for a day of fun & learning as we prep the land for Spring planting. There will be lots of different ways to help out and connect with the land.

There are a limited number of volunteer spots available and an RSVP is required to attend. To reserve your spot, please click the ticket link on this page. Once you register, you will receive an email with more information about the day and location.

If you have questions or difficulty accessing the registration link, please email maya@nativeland.org.

To learn more about our Indigenous land project – Heron Shadow – visit our Heron Shadow page.

We're excited to share this special space with you this season!

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All TCC Events On Hold
Jun
19
to Jul 31

All TCC Events On Hold

Dear community,

In an effort to limit gatherings, we have cancelled all public events until further notice. Please continue to check our website and Facebook page for updates on ways to continue to be involved.

We are sharing resources and other offerings through our social media and website on an ongoing basis.

Blessings and gratitude for all the beauty and resilience we are seeing manifested in our community. Sending healing prayers during these uncertain times 💚

~ “A Quiet Moment of Gratitude” painting by the brilliant Christi Belcourt
(one of our Mino-Niibi Fund partners with the Onaman Collective) ~

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Ka Haka: Māori and Indigenous Performance Studies Symposium 2019
Nov
14
to Nov 16

Ka Haka: Māori and Indigenous Performance Studies Symposium 2019

  • The Cultural Conservancy (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Ka Haka 2019 is hosted by Te Ara Poutama - the Faculty of Māori & Indigenous Development at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the Cultural Conservancy in San Francisco, with support from Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (University of Auckland).

The first Ka Haka Māori and Indigenous Performance Studies Symposium – ‘Empowering Performance’ – brought together academics and artists at AUT in 2016 as a way of providing a platform for exploring the enormous, as-yet largely untapped, body of knowledge stored within Māori performance, from the traditional to the contemporary, and from the popular to the avant-garde. Ka Haka 2018 – ‘Old Ways of Knowing, New Ways of Doing’ – followed as part of the International Indigenous Research Conference, hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Proceedings from Ka Haka 2016 and Ka Haka 2018 were published by Te Kaharoa – the eJournal on Indigenous Pacific Issues (tekaharoa.com).

Now, for the first time, Ka Haka leaves Aotearoa for Turtle Island. Co-hosted by The Cultural Conservancy in San Francisco, we are looking forward to expanding and deepening our conversation on the relationship between Indigenous performance and culture.

Event Details:

Location: The Cultural Conservancy
Building 1016, 1st floor, 1016 Lincoln Blvd
The Presidio National Park
San Francisco

It's about the land!

Indigenous performance often serves to embody and convey power: social, cultural, political, personal, and ecological. In this, we attribute power to performance, and we see performance as potentially empowering of Indigenous people(s) in terms that are both affirmational and activist.

As Diana Taylor fervently argues in Presente! (PMLA 2018), performance reverberates and accumulates: ‘making presence, making memory, making space for alternative visions of livable lives’ (489). Performance calls the land into being, and ourselves upon it. In Aotearoa New Zealand, we recognise the significance of tūrangawaewae (a place to stand) as something as something maintained on marae and also performed on stages such as Te Matatini, the biannual Kapa Haka festival. In the USA, we see the protests at Standing Rock and the Berkeley Shellmound, for example, as providing paradigmatic platforms for the meeting of the performative with the political. Through performance, local, national, and global Indigenous movements find ways to take a stand on the land, to claim sovereignty, to assert a rightful place in history, marking the present as a culmination of the past in order to transform the future.

For Ka Haka 2019, participants will stake a position in a conversation about the relationship between performance, power and land in the development of Māori and Indigenous identities and communities. What might it mean to perform the act of taking a stand on the land? What can contemporary Indigenous performance make present for us: socially, culturally, politically, personally, ecologically? How, that is, is performance performative – constructive of memory and identity, of time and place? How does performance re-connect Indigenous peoples to the land? Conversely, how might performance serve to un-settle the colonial identification with and attachment to land? As the climate shifts and with it the earth on which we stand, how can Indigenous performance in the 21st century be seen to touch on commonalities across the differences and particularities of cultures, peoples and places worldwide? As we gather our acts of performance, bringing our words and dances into the Ka Haka meeting space, how can we come together in celebration, rise from our own places into a place of unification?

Schedule Outline:
(See the full schedule here)
Thursday 14 Nov - 9am-4pm - Welcome, Alcatraz 50th, Lunch, Symposium, Panel

Friday 15 Nov - 9am-9.30pm - Conversations, Panels, Performances

Saturday 16 Nov - 9am-2:30pm - Conversations, Panel, Closing

Presenters and Topics
(See full Presenters and Abstracts here)

Tāwhanga Nopera’s Māori (Queer) Performance as Space and Time-making
Amelia Jones - University of Southern California

Exploring Hiakim: The Movement of Land and People
Edwardo F. Madril (Pascua Yaqui) - San Francisco State University
Sara Moncada (Yaqui) - The Cultural Conservancy

When giving back the land is not enough!
Ella Henry (Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kurī) - Auckland University of Technology
Hohepa Spooner (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Hineuru) - Auckland University of Technology

Pepeha: Performing a connection to people and place in Aotearoa New Zealand
Hēmi Kelly (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tahu, Ngāti Whāoa) - Auckland University of Technology

Taku ahi tū tata, taku mata kīkoha: Rekindling ahi kā and tūrangawaewae connections
Jamie Cowell (Waikato/Ngāti Porou) - Auckland University of Technology

Chaac & Yum: A Two-Spirit Dance Project with Snowflake Towers (Yoeme, Tzeltal Mayan)
Javier Stell-Fresquez (Piru & Tigua Pueblos, Xicanx, British, Spanish) - The Cultural Conservancy

Staging ʻŌlelo Hawai‘i: Hawaiian Theatre at the University ofHawai‘i Mānoa
Jenna Gerdsen - University of Maryland

Indigenous Language Learning Through Theatre
Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta - University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Dancing Through Sacred Ground
Māhealani Uchiyama - Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance

Te Tangi o ngā Manu Tū Rangatira (Our chiefly birds speak out!)
Romana Tekaharoa Potts (Ngāti Kurī, Muriwhenua) - Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

The fix is in: Colonial Combat
Sharon Mazer - Auckland University of Technology

Te Pae o te Riri
Te Rita Papesch (Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakauē) - Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

Technology, Ceremony, and The Sacred: Visioning Ourselves into the Future
Timoteo I. Montoya II (Lipan Apache) - The Cultural Conservancy

Mate kāinga tahi, haka kāinga rua – The world is my marae, the world is my stage: The role of kapa haka in perpetuating Māori identity and culture abroad
Valance Smith (Te Parawhau, Te Uriroroi, Te Mahurehure, Ngāti Mahuta) - Auckland University of Technology
Erana Foster (Tainui/Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Hako) - Auckland University of Technology

Te Wairua o Pou Kapua: A Living Embodiment of Haka
Wikuki Kingi (Te Whanau a Apanui, Tainui, Ngai Tahu, Hawaii) - Pou Kapua Creations, GRID Pacific, Whaotapu Trust, Auckland University of Technology
Tania Haerekiterā Wolfgramm (Whakatohea, Te Aupouri, Ngai Tai, Vava’u Tonga) - Pou Kapua Creations, GRID Pacific, Hakamana, Auckland University of Technology
Rachel Maunganui Wolfgramm (Whakatohea, Te Aupouri, Ngai Tākoto, Vava’u Tonga) - Pou Kapua Creations, University of Auckland School of Business

Contact us about this event:
Sara Moncada (The Cultural Conservancy): sara@nativeland.org
Sharon Mazer (Te Ara Poutama): smazer@aut.ac.nz

—>—>—>Register here

More information here on Auckland Institute of Technology’s site

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Oct
5
10:00 AM10:00

Fall Harvest Gathering

  • 1800 Ignacio Boulevard Novato, CA, 94949 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
fall harvest.jpg

Our annual Fall Harvest Gathering will take place this year on October 5! You are invited to join us as we celebrate the abundance of the Native Foodways Garden and share gratitude for the many gifts of the land 🌱

The Cultural Conservancy's Fall Harvest Gathering is a day of celebrating Native food cultures and traditions. Located at our Native Foodways Garden, we will spend the day harvesting, processing, and cooking the beautiful Native heirloom foods from across Turtle Island that we have stewarded this season. Native knowledge holders will guide us through cleaning Zuni Gold beans, nixtamalizing and grinding Seneca white onëo corn, and more.

Come to learn, share, celebrate, and feast with us as we enter a new season on the farm!

October 5, 2019
10am - 3pm

DETAILS
– Please come prepared for an active day with sun protection, close-toed shoes, long pants & clothing you’re willing to get a little dirty, and a refillable water bottle
– Native Foods Lunch is provided
– $10-30 suggested donation – no one turned away
– Please RSVP to maya@nativeland.org

WHERE
Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden
College of Marin, IVC Campus
1800 Ignacio Blvd. Novato, CA

Farm is located behind Parking Lot 6 (but there is free parking in Lot 5!)

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May
4
10:00 AM10:00

Spring Planting Day

  • 1800 Ignacio Boulevard Novato, CA, 94949 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
spring planting.jpg

Please join us for a day of special guests, indigenous teachings, agriculture, seeds, plant medicine, great food and more!

WHERE
Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden
College of Marin, IVC Campus
1800 Ignacio Blvd., Novato
Parking Lots 5 & 6

DETAILS
This family-friendly event will be an active day with presentations and hands-on workshops, so please come prepared with sun protection, close-toed shoes, long pants & clothing you’re willing to get a little dirty, and a refillable water bottle! A Native Foods lunch will be provided. There is a $10-30 sliding scale donation (no one turned away).

PLANT SALE
The College of Marin will also be hosting a Spring Plant Sale (May 4 & 5, 10am - 2pm) at the same location. If you are looking to jumpstart your spring garden or plant native drought-tolerant perennials at home, be sure to take a look at their wide selection during our day of sharing & learning.

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The Guardians of the Waters Art Show Workshops and Community Celebration
Apr
27
9:30 AM09:30

The Guardians of the Waters Art Show Workshops and Community Celebration

  • Associated Students Art Gallery at San Francisco State University (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join 30 Native Youth and Artists who express beauty, voice, struggle and claim sovereignty through various traditional and contemporary art forms
A unique opportunity to support Native Art. In partnership with the San Francisco State Pow Wow.
Come enjoy both events!

Free Workshops Offered By Exhibiting Youth and Artists

Saturday April 27

Registration 9:30am, Workshops 10am-12pm
Lunch, Dedication and Performances 12-5pm

Location

The Associated Students Art Gallery in the Cesar Chavez Students Center at San Francisco State University. Terrace level, Third Floor. 1650 Holloway Ave, SF

Exhibit Dates
April 4 - April 27

Apapachandonos: Towards A Lasting Collectivity

In this workshop we will delve through the 13 airs that affect the body, soul and spirit according to Mexican traditional medicine practitioner Estela Roman. We will utilize oral tradition, drawing and creative writing for introspection and release and to get an in depth understanding of how to begin to unknot internalized systems of oppression. Guardian Facilitator: V. Michelini Castillo (AKA Chhoti Maa)

Dream Weaver

In this workshop you will meet your dream weaver through hypnotherapy. With the guidance of your dream weaver, you will make a dream satchet to take home with you and facilitate a dream of your heart’s desire. Guardian Facilitator: Virginia Puc

Gente de Maíz: OurStory & Corn Husk Dolls

What is your relationship to corn? Join us for an interactive storytelling workshop where we will discuss the hxstory of corn, share our own stories, and make corn husk dolls. Through this mutual learning, we will remember the importance of corn for cultures across Turtle Island and Abya Yala. Guardian Facilitator: John Jairo Valencia


Honoring the Waters

Join Holly Calica (Ilocano/Pangasinan) and Debbie Santiago (Washoe/Ilocano) in honoring the life giving force of water. Together we will be cleansed and nourished for our well being while interacting respectfully with sacred waters. Sharing stories, we will discuss our responsibility in caring for the waters. Please bring a yoga mat, towel or blanket.

Seeing Seeds

A fun and relaxing exercise of observation & illustration to create deeper connection with our seed relatives. Guardian Facilitator: Maya Harjo


Flowing Through Movement

Stretch, breathe, dance, feel, and love your body in the now with an open-mind and heart. Feel grounded among the chaos and forget the routine for a while.
Guardians Facilitator: Sienna Ketari

We are honored to dedicate the art show to our dear California Native elder artists and teachers
Diana Almendariz (Maidu/Wintun)
and
Kathy Wallace(Karuk/Yurok/Hoopa/Mohawk)

We Thank Our Generous Art Show Funders:

SFAC
LUSH

We look forward to seeing you!

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Guardians of the Waters Art Exhibit
Apr
4
to Apr 28

Guardians of the Waters Art Exhibit

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A visual dialogue on the issues affecting us most as indigenous peoples

Featuring The Cultural Conservancy’s Guardians of the Waters program alumni and teachers, this exhibit embodies learning processes for community healing, igniting demands for reparations, for critical forms of resistance, and for self-preservation in an unbalanced world.


The exhibit runs from April 4 - April 28 and features The Cultural Conservancy’s Guardians of the Waters program alumni and teachers, and embodies learning processes for community healing, igniting demands for reparations, for critical forms of resistance, for self-preservation in an unbalanced world.

Location:

The Richard Oaks Multicultural Student Center Art Gallery

San Francisco State University

1650 Holloway Ave, SF

Co-Sponsored by SKINS, The Student Kouncil of Intertribal Nations

Also, don’t miss our Community Celebration with performances and workshops, April 27, 9am-5pm, in conjunction with the SFSU Powwow!

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Dec
1
to Dec 2

2018-19 Media Apprenticeship Application

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Our Media Program creates spaces and provide resources for producing, preserving & distributing media created by and for Native communities in the Bay Area, California, and throughout the Americas and the Pacific. We bridge old and new media. We facilitate community media trainings and Native media distribution. We provide bridges for intertribal and global indigenous knowledge-sharing through digital archives, media collections and repatriation. This apprenticeship will focus on documentary video, audio, and web content with Native voices and visions.

We are seeking a Native Media Apprentice who will participate in:

·       Documentary video + film production, post-production, distribution
·       Storytelling through web and social media
·       Media library/archive design + implementation
·       Community media trainings

This apprenticeship is a unique opportunity to work with digital media rooted in indigenous worldviews and processes. Through hands-on work on real projects, you will participate in telling indigenous stories, spreading indigenous knowledge—such as traditional foodways practices—and using digital storytelling in service of biocultural diversity. Our process is as important as our outcomes, and we strive for holistic indigenous eco-cultural stewardship through balancing media, new and old. The Native Media Apprentice will shape their experience by focusing on projects that speak to their strengths and interests, which allow them to come away with a deeper well of knowledge to guide their future contributions in their own communities. As part of a pilot year for this program, they will also contribute to shaping and design this apprenticeship.

Schedule and Compensation:

·       12 hours/week, ideally for 9 months
·       November through August 2019 (flexible upon availability)
·       $1000 monthly stipend

Eligibility Requirements:

·       Ages 18-32
·       Native/Indigenous Identity (please let us know your affiliations)
·       Interest in media production as a professional career, with some experience evidenced by a work sample
·       Readiness to perform demanding labor, including occasional in-field production with long hours
·       Ability to work well in a team or individually
·       Reliable transportation; able to travel to and from our media studios in the Presidio of San Francisco and in North Oakland
·       Two-spirit, queer, and GNC/trans* folx welcome!

To apply, check out our work (especially the videos) at nativeland.org, and then send a cover letter, resume and work sample. Accepting applications until position is filled.

to TCC’s Media Director, Mateo Hinojosa: mateo@nativeland.org

Questions?  Contact mateo@nativeland.org

Miigwech! Mvto! Ura ura! Mahalo! Paga rachu! Thank you!

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Knowledge of Place Art Exhibit - Opening Reception
Oct
26
4:00 PM16:00

Knowledge of Place Art Exhibit - Opening Reception

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The Native American Academy and The Cultural Conservancy
Invite you to join us for the Opening Reception and a Special Exhibit

“Knowledge of Place”
The Sense of Belonging
~ knowing how we are related to all creation ~

An exhibit of indigenous art
A benefit to support

The Sculpture Garden of Native Science and Learning


MEET THE ARTISTS
Opening Reception:

Friday, October 26th, 4 - 7pm

Exhibit:
October 27 - December 14

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Contributing Artists:
Muriel Antoine (Lakota)
Nora Akino (Issei)
Meyo Blue Cloud (Pomo)
Dempsey Bob (Tahltan/Tlinget)
Wikuki Kingi (Maori)
Rose Imai (Tuscarora)
Tim Paul (Nuu-chah-nulth)
Robin Rorick (Haida Gwaii)
Isabel Rorick (Haida Gwaii)
Kristi Smith (Yurok)

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The Native American Academy and The Cultural Conservancy  are collaborating on the creation of a Library of Indigenous Knowledge using works by traditional artists to communicate  wahkohtowin - "knowing how you are related to all creation"

Regular Gallery Hours, hanging exhibit:
Mon - Fri 8:30 - 5pm
Following the opening - sculpture viewable by appointment - Contact Rose Imai


About the China Brotsky Gallery at Tides Converge:

Since 1976, Tides has worked with innovative partners to accelerate toward a world of shared prosperity and social justice. Tides Converge San Francisco is a thriving 150,000 square foot multi-tenant center, comprised of twelve buildings in the Letterman District of the Presidio. A pioneer in nonprofit centers, Tides Converge houses over 75 charitable organizations and social enterprises working for social justice, quality education, international development, cultural conservation, public health, and environmental stewardship, ultimately fulfilling the Presidio's vision: combining preservation of the park's historic resources with creation of a global center for a sustainable future. 

With support from:

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Full Circle Fund
Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Learning Fund

www.silverbuffalo.org     |      www.nativeland.org

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Farm Volunteer Day
Jun
30
9:00 AM09:00

Farm Volunteer Day

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By popular demand, the first TCC team + public volunteer day of 2018!

The farm is in full production and we'll have some planting, possibly some transplanting, but mostly weeding to do!!

Please bring closed-toed shoes, long pants, sun protection, a water bottle, and lunch.

Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden at the College of Marin
1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato

It's beautiful out there, and we can't wait to share what we've done with everyone!

Check out this photo, showing a volunteer amaranth and sunflower who decided to join their sister corn on a mound 💟🌾🌻

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Spectacular Movements film screening with Iván Nogales
Jun
13
6:30 PM18:30

Spectacular Movements film screening with Iván Nogales

Come watch Spectacular Movements—Movimientos Espectaculares film!
10 young Bolivian actors journey deep into collective memory of their revolution
in a theater-truck tour and experimental street performances
intervening creatively in the name of justice through manifesting the dead
and reforging their mestizo, indigenous and urban identity in movement.

The Cultural Conservancy invites you to a special screening of the feature film Spectacular Movements—Movimientos Espectaculares, with special guest Iván Nogales: Bolivian artist, teacher, and movement leader, founder and director of Teatro Trono and la Comunidad de Productores en Arte, who are featured in the film. We are thrilled to provide unique opportunity to connect with him and his experience with the arts and social movement communities in Latin America, as well as with the film director Mateo Hinojosa who will be present for a Q&A with Iván.

With Q&A with Teatro Trono director Iván Nogales and film director Mateo Hinojosa.

WHEN:
Wednesday, June 13th, 6:30pm-9pm
Before, you are also invited to the Decolonize the Body workshop Iván will be leading from 1-5pm at East Side Arts Alliance. See separate related event page.

WHERE:
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland

SUGGESTED DONATION:
$5-15, no one turned away for lack of funds

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Decolonize the Body—Cultura Viva Comunitaria workshop
Jun
13
1:00 PM13:00

Decolonize the Body—Cultura Viva Comunitaria workshop

Decolonize the Body—Cultura Viva Comunitaria workshop:
Social Transformation through Movement Arts and the Arts of Movements

The Cultural Conservancy invites you to an afternoon with special guest Iván Nogales: Bolivian artist, teacher, and movement leader, teaching in California for the first time. We are thrilled to provide this unique opportunity to connect with him and his experience with the arts and social movement communities in Latin America.

Iván will lead us through a series of practices from his work:
• Embody decolonization through personal and collective liberatory exercises
• Movement, voice, games and interactive theater to break colonized logic systems

We’ll also learn about:
• Collective liberation movements emerging in Bolivia and Latin America
• The Cultura Viva Comunitaria movement
• Caravanas Culturales from Teatro Trono to Cultura Viva Comunitaria

WHEN:
Wednesday, June 13th, 1-5pm.

Afterwards, you are invited to caravan with Iván to the 6:30pm film screening of Spectacular Movements, featuring Iván and Teatro Trono in Bolivia, at Omni Commons in North Oakland (see separate event page). Director Mateo Hinojosa will also be present for Q&A.

WHERE:
East Side Arts Alliance.
2277 International Blvd, Oakland

SUGGESTED DONATION:
$5 – 50, no one turned away for lack of funds

RSVP: 
mateo@nativeland.org
www.nativeland.org

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Spring Planting Day
Apr
22
10:00 AM10:00

Spring Planting Day

  • 1800 Ignacio Boulevard Novato, CA, 94949 United States (map)
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Join us for a day of Traditional corn planting & Teachings on Indigenous agriculture, seeds, and California native plants!

WITH teachings by:
Sage LaPena (Nomtipom Wintu)
Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe)
Rose Von Thater-Braan (Tuscarora)
Valentine Antony (Mohawk) 

WHERE
Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden
College of Marin, IVC Campus
1800 Ignacio Blvd., Novato
Parking Lots 5 & 6

Native Foods lunch provided
$20 suggested donation
no one turned away

NATIVE FOODWAYS PROGRAM
We work to revitalize traditional foodways and improve access to organic foods, native plants, & Traditional Ecological Knowledge practices that are vital for the personal & cultural health of Native communities in the Bay Area & beyond.

SPONSORED BY
The Christensen Fund, Lush, the Panta Rhea Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation

SPECIAL THANKS TO
College of Marin, Marin Master Gardeners, and the IVF&G Collaborative Partnership

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Fall Harvest Celebration
Nov
18
11:00 AM11:00

Fall Harvest Celebration

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Food catered by mak-'amham

Appetizer:
• local mushroom stew with bay laurel and yerba buena

Main:
• savory hazelnut butter acorn flatbread with local mushrooms with popped amaranth
• venison meatballs with yerba buena and mushrooms with huckleberry
• sorrel and watercress salad with hard boiled quail eggs, toasted amaranth, roasted
pine nuts, blackberries and huckleberries. served with elderberry and walnut oil
vinagerette

Dessert:
• acorn brownies with walnuts and sea salt
• toasted sweet pinole cakes

Beverage:
• yerba buena tea

$20 suggested donation - no one turned away

Please RSVP to sara@nativeland.org

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Community Harvest
Nov
4
12:00 PM12:00

Community Harvest

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Join us for our Fall Community Harvest volunteer workday! In community, with TCC teachers, staff, and volunteers, and SFSU students, we will process seeds, native foods, and learn about Native Foodways on the land in this fun work day.

Clean native heirloom beans and other harvested seeds

Gather and clean our Three Sisters Iroquois White Corn Field

Grind Iroquois White Corn

Plant Tobacco

Pot luck lunch. 

Bring water bottle, layered clothes, gear for sun, covered shoes and work pants.

Where:
Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden
IVC Campus at the College of Marin
1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato, CA *parking lot 6*

The Farm:
The Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden is a living laboratory and community space through a special collaboration with the College of Marin, UC Cooperative Extensions / Marin Master Gardeners and The Cultural Conservancy.

We look forward to seeing you!

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