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Rain Shadow Poetry Festival 2025: Language and the Land

Rain Shadow Poetry Festival 2025: Language and the Land

Since 2017, Rain Shadow Poetics Lab (formerly Cascadia Poetics Lab – Canada) has been bringing world-class poetry and bioregional poetics to the Comox Valley. This summer, in collaboration with Watershed Press, the Lab returns with the Rain Shadow Poetry Festival 2025, a powerful weekend celebration of language, land, and the poetic imagination. From Friday, August 22 through Sunday, August 24, the village of Cumberland, British Columbia will welcome poets, artists, and thinkers from across the Cascadia bioregion for a rich series of readings, workshops, and lectures.

Cascadia Poetry Festival 2025

Cascadia Poetry Festival 2025

The Cascadia Poetry Festival returns to Seattle for its ninth year, inviting poets, artists, and culture-makers to explore what it means to create place-based poetry in a time of ecological urgency and cultural transformation. Organized by Cascadia Poetics Lab, this four-day gathering brings together voices from across the bioregion for workshops, readings, panels, and performances rooted in the spirit of Cascadia—where the watersheds speak, the stories run deep, and the arts offer both refuge and revolution.

Bioregional Confluencing 2025: Ambling Toward Planetary Bioregional Congressing

Bioregional Confluencing 2025: Ambling Toward Planetary Bioregional Congressing

As we face mounting ecological, social, and political challenges, one thing has become increasingly clear: top-down systems alone won’t save us. Regeneration begins from the ground up—through people organizing in place, building trust, and cultivating the relationships that make life flourish. That’s the spirit behind Bioregional Confluencing 2025, an ambitious global initiative to revitalize bioregional gatherings and reclaim the practice of congressing—an ancient and future-facing model of participatory governance.

An Evening at the Georgetown Steam Plant: What is Cascadia?

An Evening at the Georgetown Steam Plant: What is Cascadia?

On September 20–21, 2025, join us at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant for a powerful talk with Brandon Letsinger, a longtime champion of Cascadia and founder of Cascadia Now! and the Department of Bioregion. In this live presentation, Brandon will share his two-decade journey in grassroots organizing, the lessons he’s learned from movement-building, and the bold vision behind Regenerate Cascadia—a growing network of networks working to build regenerative systems at a bioregional scale.

2022 Cascadia NW: Equinox in Pictures

2022 Cascadia NW: Equinox in Pictures

With COVID, this was our first festival since 2019, and brought hundreds of folks out to Sedro-Woolley for a weekend of arts, music and fun. The entire purpose was to reconnect, gather and rekindle energy for hosting a full scale 2023 CascadiaNW festival. This year was also made possible with generous support of Arts WA, the Washington Chamber of Commerce and WA Festival Association.

CascadiaNW Music and Arts Festival Grant!

CascadiaNW Music and Arts Festival Grant!

After a two year hiatus due to COVID, Cascadia Northwest Arts and Music Festival is excited to return this year with an equinox gathering to reignite the magic and reconnection of the Cascadia community. While it will be much smaller than usual, the goal will be together in person, fundraise and build energy for a full return of the CascadiaNW festival in 2023.

Cascadia Open Education Summit coming up in British Columbia and online, April 27-29

Regional Influence. Global Impact.

The Cascadia Open Education Summit is a unique three-day, internationally attended event where thought leaders come together to share groundbreaking ideas, research, and best practices for using open educational resources (OER). Their delegates include government officials, faculty, academic administrators and leaders, educational developers and technologists, librarians, instructional designers, student support staff, and students.

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The 8th annual Summit will be digital and will be a mix of live and pre-recorded sessions delivered through the virtual platform provider, EventMobi. The event follows on the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit which took place in Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019, co-hosted by Lumen Learning, Open Oregon Educational Resources, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).

Cascadia Open Education Summit welcomed people engaged in higher ed-focused open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.

For More Information, Check Out:

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Your Guide for Dougsgiving, November 28th

Your Guide for Dougsgiving, November 28th

The Department of Bioregion lists easy steps to make any family gathering or meal a bioregional one. During this time of year, we want to celebrate what our bioregion gives us, the wonderful people living here in a seasonal and sustainable way.

2019 Cascadia Convergence: Event Recap

2019 Cascadia Convergence: Event Recap

The 2019 Cascadia Convergence took place July 5-7th at the North River Reserve in Brooklyn Washington, and was a wonderful time for Cascadians to come together to connect, share and learn. This year saw vendors from around the region, a 30 foot yurt being raised as a future classroom, and discussions by Free Cascadia, Your Cascadia, the Department of Bioregion, Olympia Ecotopians, and Seattle CascadiaNow on creating a centralized backbone for coordinating ideas, resources and events. The Department of Bioregion also provided the Cascadia Bus to help get everything down there.

First Seattle Cascadia Diplomat Training - March 23rd & 24th

First Seattle Cascadia Diplomat Training - March 23rd & 24th

The Cascadia Department is excited to announce our first Cascadia Diplomat training taking place in Seattle. Diplomats represent Cascadia, are long term volunteers that undertake projects, manage departments and committees, and make the Cascadia movement happen.

2019 Cascadia Convergence Performer & Workshop Submissions are Open!

2019 Cascadia Convergence Performer & Workshop Submissions are Open!

Cascadia Convergence has announced their submissions for workshops, presentations and performers is now open! They are looking for Cascadians who want to be involved in making the event awesome. Do you have a musical or performance act, a workshop you want to give? Just want to volunteer or take on a leadership role? Let them know!