Voice of the River

09/30/2024

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept 30 highlights the need for reflection and renewed action to address the ongoing impacts of colonization. To heal from the past also requires investing in the future.

Click the link below to read our September 2024 E-News, featuring recent updates on our collaborative, Indigenous-led efforts to return the salmon to the upper Columbia River.

https://bit.ly/4f0i07x

09/20/2024

Great opportunity for Indigenous video artists, deadline extended to Sept 30th

It's time for the second round of Filmmaker Fellows applications! Three Indigenous video artists will receive cash prizes to support a film project they are developing: one for $5,000 and two for $2,500. Three other Emerging Indigenous Filmmakers will receive full camera kits (or equivalent cost equipment, calculated at $800) so that they can take their craft to the next level. Thank you to for their funding!

Submit by September 20th and learn more via the link in our profile. https://www.confluenceproject.org/news-post/call-for-filmmaker-fellows-applications/

06/22/2024

Please share.
We are assisting the Washington State MMIWP Task Force conduct the survivor and family interviews. We are not the primary contact.

To schedule, email the Washington MMIWP Task Force email listed on the flyer.

Our stories are important and need to be heard.

06/22/2024

Today, on National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, we are delighted to share a short highlight video from our recent Bringing the Salmon Home Transboundary Tour Launch events.

Hundreds of people celebrated the Transboundary Tour Launch with events around the headwaters of the Columbia River in late May 2024. This tour is designed to advance ceremonial, cultural and technical exchange over the coming year with US Tribes and allies all along this One Great River.

Click the link below to watch this great short video now!

https://vimeo.com/954100043?share=copy

📸: Jeremy Williams

06/14/2024

Tonight!

10/18/2023

“Wholeness doesn’t create wholeness, in my experience. It is fragmentation that creates the opportunity for wholeness, and this includes the opportunity for continued fragmentation.”

Janet Adler, from her book
‘intimacy in emptiness, an evolution in embodied consciousness’

08/30/2023

The Confluence project is offering a 1-year paid internship for an Emerging Indigenous Artist/Educator. They just extended the deadline to September 14th (though it says Sept. 1st below) to allow for more applicants. Please share widely with those who might have interest!
confluenceproject.org
Confluence is a great organization supporting and highlighting Indigenous voices throughout the Columbia Basin. They support storytelling, art installations and upkeep, celebrations and education related to the culture and ecology of our region.
who they are:
"Confluence connects you to the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River system through Indigenous voices. We are a community-supported nonprofit that works through six art landscapes, educational programs, and public gatherings in collaboration with northwest tribes, communities, and the celebrated artist Maya Lin." (website)

https://www.facebook.com/danceecology/posts/761651022633630