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The Spring Creek Project hosts visiting speakers and writers, writing residency programs, and other programming that addresses the most challenging environmental issues of our time.

Join us for the Campus Wild Celebration this Wednesday, June 3. Hear from student winners in six creative categories as ...
06/01/2026

Join us for the Campus Wild Celebration this Wednesday, June 3. Hear from student winners in six creative categories as well as from Dan Blanchard, curator of living plant collections at the OSU Arboretum. Refreshments will be served.

Learn more and RSVP here: https://prax.oregonstate.edu/events/campus-wild-celebration

Join us at PRAx on Friday, May 22, as the Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir and Third Angle New Music present "Eras,"...
05/21/2026

Join us at PRAx on Friday, May 22, as the Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir and Third Angle New Music present "Eras," co-presented by PRAx and Spring Creek Project.

The evening's program will include a piece called "Following Fire." The creative journey for this wildfire oratorio began in April 2025, when students from the ORS Youth Choir and Third Angle Ensemble visited the World Forestry Center to see the exhibition "Following Fire," a powerful collaboration between photographer David Paul Bayles and ecologist Frederick J. Swanson that documented the cycle of wildfire destruction and regrowth in the Cascade Range.

Bayles and Swanson led the group through their exhibition, and then members of the youth choir spread out amongst the photos of skeletal trees and budding fireweed to write poetry. This poetry was then transformed by composers of Third Angle into music set to the children’s own words.

The evening's program also pieces celebrating Third Angle’s 40-year history. Happy hour begins at 6 p.m. and will include presentations and photography exhibits related to "Following Fire."

Use coupon code ANGLE26 for free tickets, which are available at the link in Spring Creek Project's bio.

[Wildfire photography in the collage image by David Paul Bayles.]

The Public Lands Collaborative Residency supports creative teams engaged in storytelling projects that have the potentia...
05/07/2026

The Public Lands Collaborative Residency supports creative teams engaged in storytelling projects that have the potential to help re-imagine and shape the future of public lands in the United States.

In a time of ecological and cultural transformation, public lands call us to rethink stewardship — not as ownership or control, but as an ongoing conversation across generations, disciplines, and cultures. Public lands invite questions about who belongs, who decides, and what values guide our shared future.

This opportunity is open to interdisciplinary collaborative pairs. One person in the pair must be a creative writer. The other person may be an artist working in any discipline, someone working in the humanities (e.g., historian, philosopher, theologian), someone working in ecology or a related science field, or another writer working in a distinct field (e.g., a creative nonfiction writer working with a poet, a fiction writer working with a policy writer). Each recipient in the pair will receive $3,000 in funding and three weeks in residence at Shotpouch Cabin in the Oregon Coast Range.

Applications are due June 1.

Learn more: https://prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/opportunities/public-lands-collaborative-residency

Everyone in the OSU and Corvallis community is invited to participate in Campus Wild, a celebration of the more-than-hum...
04/29/2026

Everyone in the OSU and Corvallis community is invited to participate in Campus Wild, a celebration of the more-than-human life that surrounds us on the Corvallis campus. This program invites us to notice all the species and pockets of wild around us — to slow down, look closely, and creatively respond to the neighbors that share our campus ecosystem.

To participate, choose a living being on OSU’s Corvallis campus — a tree, bird, insect, fungus, flower, moss, mammal, or other organism. Spend time observing it.

Then, create a response inspired by your encounter. Your submission may take the form of poetry, prose, a field guide entry, visual art (sketch, painting, etc.), photography, or video/audio.

Organizers will award $100 student prizes in each category. Submissions are due May 4.

Learn more and share your submission here: https://prax.oregonstate.edu/2026-campus-wild

04/26/2026

Application closes in 3 weeks! PLAYA, PRAx and Spring Creek Project are partnering to offer this new interdisciplinary fellowship: Migration in Changing Climates.

This fellowship invites applicants working in writing, ethics and philosophy, visual art, performing arts, sound, and multidisciplinary genres to propose projects that engage migration as an ecological, cultural, ethical and imaginative force reshaping where and how life can move.

The year-long program will bring eight selected fellows together to explore ecologies of migration in the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin, including human and other-than-human lives. Creative projects will engage with the living dynamics of migration — of birds, mammals, plants, and/or people. Those interested can apply individually or with a collaborator.

Learn more and apply by May 15 at the link in bio.

Such a lovely event!!
04/25/2026

Such a lovely event!!

At the heart of Charles Goodrich's poetry is a quest for a deeper sense of community with the land, the weather, and the...
04/22/2026

At the heart of Charles Goodrich's poetry is a quest for a deeper sense of community with the land, the weather, and the waters of his chosen home. Members of the natural world — insects, birds, plants, humans and other mammals — conspire with him in the journey.

Sly, quirky, infused with wry humor and a contrarian spirit, his poems go in pursuit of what Thich Nhat Hanh calls "interbeing," the interwoven interdependence of all things. With their nuanced and varied themes of building and making a home, love of family, and kinship with all creatures, these are, in Clem Starck’s words, "the musings of a latter-day Zen gardener."

Join Spring Creek Project, Grass Roots Books, and EMPTY BOWL Press on April 23, 7 p.m., in PRAx's Toomey Lobby to celebrate his latest collection, Knot House: New & Selected Poems.

Goodrich is the author of four previous volumes of poetry; a book of narrative essays, The Practice of Home; and a novel, Weave Me a Crooked Basket. His poems and prose writings have appeared in Orion, The Sun, Terrain.org, and many other publications. He is also a former director of the Spring Creek Project.

Goodrich will share work from the new collection, and the reading will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Grass Roots Books will be on hand with copies for sale. Event is free and open to all.

We invite you to join us for a talk by climate anxiety expert Sarah Jaquette Ray on Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. in PRAx's Detri...
02/06/2026

We invite you to join us for a talk by climate anxiety expert Sarah Jaquette Ray on Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. in PRAx's Detrick Hall. Free and open to all.

Drawing on her book "A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet," Ray will focus on the role of our emotions in climate justice advocacy. We are living in a time of multiple, layering crises, but what does the story of apocalypse do to our capacity to respond wisely? How can we effectively show up for each other and the planet, and not burn out or despair to the point of giving up? Distilling wisdom from across many fields and traditions, Dr. Ray will offer an "existential toolkit" for the climate generation.

This event is presented by the Spring Creek Project and OSU's Sustainability Double Degree with support from the Sustainability Office, Contemplative Studies Initiative, Center for the Future of Forests and Society, and Grass Roots Books.

Reserve your free ticket today on the PRAx website or at the link in Spring Creek Project's bio.

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