Beside the Salish Sea: a Roundtable of Listening and Witnessing
Beside the Salish Sea: a Roundtable of Listening and Witnessing brings together artists, activists, academics, and allies for a day-long gathering on Thursday, September 27, to begin a relationship between the Goddard College MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program and the Indigenous tribes of the Peninsula. The Roundtable is hosted by ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse. The event coincides with the inauguration of the new concentration in Indigenous and Decolonial Art.
The day begins with a tour of the exhibits of the ancient tribal village of č̕ixʷícən held at the Carnegie Museum managed by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. At 12:30 pm, we will attend the annual Welcome to Klallam/S’Klallam Territory in the The Little Theater at Peninsula College, with the reception following in ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ.
The Roundtable discussion will be from 2:00 – 4:00 in room J-47-A at Peninsula College. Micah McCarty will facilitate the discussion, which will begin with presentations by Micah McCarty (Makah), Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha Klallam), Elaine Grinnell (Jamestown S’Klallam), Robin Sigo (Suquamish) and MFAIA graduate, Storme Webber (Alutiiq/Black/Choctaw). This Roundtable is open to the public. Please contact JuPong Lin at [email protected] for more information or to participate.
