A day to celebrate the unique dynamism of our bioregion and movement.
To Celebrate Cascadia Day, we are inviting anyone that feels so moved to share a picture, poem, song, story or short video in this thread that helps to share something of the essence of this amazing place we call home.
We are officially debuting Regenerate Cascadia in collaboration with Design School for Regenerating Earth and Regenerative Communities Network.
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.
On this page is a map of the known permanent village sites (c.1800) of the Coast Salish people who lived--and still live--in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. If you are interested in a particular group or area of the Sound click on the appropriate section of the small black and white map to the left. Then, a color map of the area you choose will download. It is only from these larger scale (smaller area) maps that you are able to access information about each of the villages.
The Department of Bioregion is excited to announce a partnership with the Cascadia Association Football Federation to help CAFF hit the field running in 2023. A ton of great organizing has been going on, and they are looking at a new run of kits, and fielding both a women’s and men’s Cascadia team in 2023 for friendlies and CONIFA matches.
June is Pride month. We use this time to acknowledge the LGBTQ community and honor the memories of those who fought for their right to love and be equal. It’s an important time for all of us to reflect on the sacrifices made for equal rights, to celebrate progress in a freer society, and to recognize there’s still so much more to be done until freedom reigns truly for each of us.
The 2022 CASCADIA International Women's Film Festival is back! Live in-person May 12-15, and online May 19-30. They are based in beautiful Bellingham, Washington. Tickets are on sale now at http://cascadiafilmfest.org.
The Cascadia Underground, a Department of Bioregion program, is excited to share their first volunteer written article "Heat Domes and You" by Dennis Beaman, with more regular content to come. The Cascadia Underground is excited to be a space where any Cascadian can submit articles, audio or video about issues they care about.
The Cascadia Department of Bioregion was excited to present with the People’s Voice on Climate as a part of a 90 minute presentation, panel and question & answer session on April 26th, 2022. The Panel Session: Climate Assemblies: Lessons learned and results from around the world and Washington state was part of the opening sessions, which brought more than 2500 policy leaders, advocates, academics and scientists from around the Salish Sea for a week of discussions geared around better stewarding our ecoregion and bioregion.
On April 1st 2022, social news site Reddit relaunched their strange, collaborative, combative art project known as /r/Place, the second of such a challenge, with the first taking place on April 1, 2017. As part of this project, several hundred Cascadians worked together for four days, day and night - to ensure we got an amazing Cascadia flag into the final image.
Just in time for Pride, we are so excited for our first ever Cascadia PRIDE Resource kits, and a whole host of new Cascadia gear. For the first time, we’ve got a whole range of Non-Binary, Trans and Rainbow pins, stickers, patches and flags, and have also just created a new Cascadia “Progress” Lapel Pin, and have created a new PVC velcro stick Cascadia Rainbow Pride Patch. Because of popular demand, we’ve also re-upped our Cascadia PRIDE stickers with the trans colors in the trees.
This panel forum opens questions about the evolution of media and news venues in our cross-border region. Featuring a slate of outstanding journalists covering environmental issues in our region, we will explore questions like:
How do regional media address transboundary issues, such as the energy economy, political regulation, and climate change policy?
What is the role of media producers and consumers in fostering cross-border conversations around the Salish Sea and more broadly throughout Cascadia?
What is the future of place-based news to address shared crises and solutions in our shared bioregion?
Tag us in a picture or post about Cascadia, and you’ll be automatically entered to win lots of Cascadia gear that we’ll be giving out during the day and next day. We'll be sharing images & reposting all day, so make sure to give us a tag at @cascadiabioregion on facebook and instagram, and @cascadiadept on twitter. and you’ll be entered to win some of our Cascadia Giveaways, including several bundles with t-shirts, flags, masks, stickers, passports and more.
From the mountains to the sea, our home features some of the most diverse, beautiful and dynamic landscapes in the entire world. Our people are as diverse as the beauty that surrounds us. We are abundantly blessed and therefore celebrate a holiday to highlight our uniqueness and diversity and as a reminder of our responsibility to act as faithful stewards of the wondrous bounty with which we are endowed. Happy Cascadia Day!
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