Photo from EcoTrust event

Here we are tabling at Ecotrust! Someone just pointed a camera at us and to hide the awkwardness we just grinned hugely. Also we were having fun.

End of another busy week at the office! This week we were a bit short staffed, with Rose and Fox up in Washington working hard to promote the NISA Festival and Katie feeling a bit under the weather. Despite the lack of supervision, those of us left continued to make strides on our individual projects and even managed to find time to move our rabbits into their new home (stay tuned for a video of the great unveiling from Kaitlyn). Things are looking up at our garden plot as well, with winter crops making their way into a beautiful key-hole shaped bed.

Upcoming: I'm super excited to start training with Film Action Oregon on Monday to learn the basics of video production - knowledge that should prove invaluable as I begin to work more closely with Wisdom's production team!

Wisdom at EcoTrust!

Greetings lovers of music and Wisdom!

Join us at the Natural Capital Center, a hub for ideas and urban community, for the last of a unique series of free outdoor concerts that tell a story about how to live deliberately in our bioregion. This Thursday is your last chance to lounge outside, listen to beautiful music, and learn about some of the many local organizations that are working for a more just and sustainable world.

Wisdom of the Elders will be tabling along with many other inspiring groups, so come on by and visit us! The entire event will be solar powered, and will feature free bike valet.

Sundown at Ecotrust

Thursday, July 28th

721 NE Ninth Ave.

5:30pm - 8:30pm

FREE, with donations happily accepted

Featuring music by: The Dimes and The Greater Midwest

Hope to see you there!

Sniffles and Spreadsheets

Hello out there,

This has been a fast and rather snotty (at least for me) week around here. Fortunately my cold is clearing up in time for some sun, or at least lack of rain, this weekend!

I have been working on editing the project description and production timeline for Wisdom of the Elders Radio: Series Four, and finishing up a spreadsheet of the eight tribes we will be working with. Next week I will hopefully begin touching base with them and updating them on the new developments. For instance, part of the production process will be training youth in science journalism and then planning a week-long science field camp where they will be able to put their new media and science skills to use! Very exciting!

Are you interested in learning more about how climate change is affecting indigenous communities? Check out the Indigenous Environmental Network. They are awesome.

Have a lovely weekend!

isobel

NISA News

Well this week has been spent adding the final touches to our NISA publicity materials including our very important mentorship application, and the first poster by yours truly. When not working on our publicity materials I have been undertaking the task of finding good articles for the VISTA team to read. Everything from Supreme Court decisions on Indian Policy, to history of Oregon Tribes, to the most peculiar practices of the Nacirema Tribe as an example of the importance of cultural relativism.

Next week, Rose and I will be at Canoe Journey at Swinomish. Ought to be an exciting adventure!

Photoshop Hyjinx

Yay photoshop trainings! :D

we cans use computer!!!!!