Evoke Cascadia

03/23/2026

🌈 Join us for Data Walk & Roll — Count Us In 🌈

Come together with community to explore LGBTQ+ survey insights, connect with others, and help shape stronger local resources right here in Battle Ground.

✨ Informative
✨ Community-centered
✨ Action-focused

🗓 April 23 | 6–8 PM
📍 Battle Ground

🎟 Free to attend
👉 Get free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-walk-roll-count-us-in-tickets-1983477828579?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

Music • Food • Raffle • Community 💜

03/13/2026

🌈 We love seeing spaces created for q***r youth in our community.

Wild Heart Society and Q***r Community Network are hosting a q***r high school dance designed to celebrate joy, connection, and being fully yourself.

If you know a high schooler who might enjoy this affirming space, check it out and help spread the word!

It's a ✨PARTY✨

This is a space to move, dance, hang out, connect, and be fully yourself.

Join us for a q***r high school youth dance designed to celebrate joy, embodiment, and community. No experience required, no pressure to perform — on the dance floor or in what you wear — and absolutely no one turned away for lack of funds, fits, or rhythm.

Come dance, hoop, vogue, craft, laugh, and take up space exactly as you are.

🌈 Who This Event Is For
-High school freshmen through seniors
- Q***r, trans, and questioning high schoolers — and allies
- Any high schooler who wants a joyful, affirming space to dance and connect

This is a pay-what-you-can event.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Learn more and register at: https://www.wildheartsociety.org/informal

03/02/2026

Women’s History Month proclamation is happening tonight!

Please join us in person or online as a community member accepts the proclamation in recognition of the contributions and leadership of women in our community.

7 PM @ Battle Ground City Hall (Second Floor)

03/02/2026

🌈 Now Seeking Sponsors for Battle Ground Pride 2026! 🌈

Battle Ground Pride is returning, and we’re inviting local businesses, organizations, and community partners to invest in a celebration that centers belonging, visibility, and connection in our community.

Your sponsorship helps cover things like:
✨ Venue costs
✨ Accessibility (Masks, ASL, sensory supports, etc)
✨ Free community activities
✨ Local performers and speakers
✨ Safety and event infrastructure

This event remains free to attend because of sponsors like you. ❤

If your business or organization believes in inclusion and community impact, we’d love to partner with you.

👉 Apply to sponsor through the link in our bio!
📩 Questions? Email us directly.

Let’s build something meaningful together. 💛

12/15/2025

📚 Community Call to Action: Keep “Equity” in FVRLibraries’ Strategic Plan

Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries is finalizing its new five-year strategic plan — shaped by 2,500+ community members. But at last month’s meeting, some trustees pushed to remove the terms “equity” and “equitable access,” delaying the vote.

In libraries, equitable access is a long-standing principle:
➡️ making sure everyone — regardless of background, income, identity, ability, or location — can meaningfully use library services.
This includes things like bookmobiles for rural areas, different-sized branches offering different services, and programs tailored to community needs.

Equality = everyone gets the same thing.
Equity = everyone gets what they need to actually use the library.

Multiple advisory committee members — including the White Salmon Mayor and a Cowlitz Indian Tribe Elder — spoke strongly about why the word matters. As Elder Tanna Engdahl said:
“This brave little word, equity, should not be taken hostage.”

Now is the time for the supportive community to speak up.

📰 Full story: https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/dec/01/residents-respond-to-equitable-access-language-in-fvrlibraries-strategic-plan/

📅 Library Board Meeting (Public Comment)
Monday, Dec 15, 2025 — 6:00 PM
📍 Vancouver Community Library

💻 Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82151796387
📞 1 (971) 247-1195 | Meeting ID: 821 5179 6387 | Passcode: 664145

🗣️ How to Comment
To speak remotely: Email [email protected] or call 360-906-5011 by 1 PM Monday (name, phone, city, topic: “equity in the strategic plan”).

Written comments: Email [email protected] by 1 PM (approx. 2-minute length).

🌈 Why it matters
A small but organized anti-Drag Queen Story Hour / pro-censorship group has attended nearly every library board meeting since 2019. When supporters of inclusive, accessible libraries stay silent, it can look like the community agrees with efforts to remove language like equity.

Your presence — or even a brief written comment — helps show that our community supports access for all and wants libraries to remain welcoming, barrier-free public spaces.

👉 Talking points will be posted in the comments.

The terms “equity” and “equitable access” in FVRLibraries’ five-year strategic plan caused so much debate at last month’s meeting that the library district’s trustees decided to have a second reading

12/11/2025

Sign up before next Thursday!

Come and join us in Battle Ground for our Peer Meetup on December 18th! This week we are honored to have a guest speaker Bren Baker from Washington Families for Freedom. Hope you can make it!

Sign up in our LinkTree to get the location.

We will be requiring masks of a well fitting KN95 or above during times of increased illness to help ensure we keep our community safe and healthy.

12/02/2025

🌿✨ Today is Giving Tuesday! ✨🌿

At Evoke Cascadia, we’re building a future where marginalized communities feel seen, supported, and safe.

We’re a small volunteer-run As a small, volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We do this work because community care is necessary.

🎯 Our Giving Tuesday donation goal is $500
🌈 Every $1 brings us closer to our goal, and every gift creates real-world impact.
Your support fuels things like:
🏳️‍⚧️ Visibility & advocacy in semi-rural Clark County
🎬 Community festivals and events
🧺 Peer meetups, donation drives, and our community clothing closet
📣 Intersectional outreach that centers marginalized identities

💝 Give what you can. Share if you can’t!

Both help more than you know.

👉 Donate today and help us reach our $500 goal—because belonging is worth investing in.

Thank you for showing up for community care. 💛