We couldn’t be more excited to announce that the Cascadia SPOKE: A Bioregional Journal has received a $1500 4Culture Arts & Heritage grant to help us support the writers, artists and cover the printing costs of our first issue.
The Cascadia SPOKE is a new community publication to promote Cascadia, bioregionalism and provide a written hub where diverse voices, artists, poets and communities can share topics, issues and news most important to them in a non-digital format - delivered straight to your doorstep. To start, it will be released twice a year, and is open for anyone to share, or suggest who we should reach out to for future articles.
The bioregional movement has a rich history over the past several decades, that is largely undocumented. The aim of the journal and presentation is to connect the work of early bioregionalists in California, here in Cascadia and throughout the world in the 1980's (much of which did not make the digital jump) - to current day audiences, as well as providing a space for contemporary poets, artists and organizers to discuss topics important to their work and communities.
Our first run is 2000 copies, printed by Pacific Publishing in Seattle, and is being mailed out free of charge, both individually and as bundles. We hope to provide a space for real dialogue to happen, and be a place where every voice in the Cascadia movement can be heard. Our goal will always be for this publication to be free of charge to anyone who would like one, without the need of advertising. In this vein - we are looking for 40 people who would like to join us as a monthly supporter.
