✨ SATURDAY NIGHT ✨
Cascadia Day Celebrations! Potluck, Elders Panel and Poetry Reading. May 17, 2025 | 5:00 PM–10:00 PM | Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle.
Free & Open to the Public — All Are Welcome! Celebrate Cascadia Day as part of the Cascadia BioFi Conference happening all weekend.
RSVP VIA LUMA:
https://lu.ma/i3t4jc1h
Cascadia BioFi Tickets and More Info:
https://cascadiabiofi.org
Bring a dish and celebrate this important moment for Cascadia!
Potluck at 5pm.
Elders Panel at 6pm.
Cascadia Poetry Reading at 8pm
Even if you’re not joining us for the whole conference - join us for our Saturday evening celebration!
🌲 Featured Readers:
Robert Lashley — Acclaimed poet, novelist, and cultural voice from Bellingham
Claudia Castro Luna — Former WA State Poet Laureate, Salvadoran-born Seattle writer
Dr. Jason M. Wirth — Philosopher, Zen priest, and environmental writer
Paul E Nelson — Founder of Cascadia Poetics Lab, poet, and cultural organizer
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs — Polylingual poet, scholar, and feminist critic
Matt Trease — Artist, astrologer, and co-curator of Margin Shift
This evening of poetic power is a celebration of the Cascadian spirit—resilient, rooted, and regenerative.
📍 Location:
Georgetown Steam Plant
6605 13th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108
🍽 5:00 PM – Community BBQ & Waste-Free Potluck
Gather around the grill and share a meal with new and old friends! Bring a dish to contribute to this community feast and help us model waste-free, regenerative gathering practices.
🧓🏽 6:00 PM – Elders Panel & Community Dialogue
Hosted by Lansing Scott & Julie Carpenter
Hear from respected bioregional elders in a live, intergenerational dialogue weaving together stories, perspectives, and wisdom. This hybrid in-person and Zoom discussion will explore the roots and possibilities of bioregional regeneration.
✍️ 8:00 PM – Live Poetry Reading
Presented in Partnership with Cascadia Poetics Lab
We close the evening with a vibrant poetry reading that uplifts the voice of place, featuring renowned poets and thinkers offering creative responses to our bioregion’s challenges—and its profound potential. These readings present positive alternatives to the nation state and center imagination as a core tool of transformation.
🌿 LOCATION:
The Georgetown Steam Plant was built in 1906 to energize the region’s growing electric streetcar system. At the time, it was at the center of the rapidly growing Georgetown neighborhood. The plant was designed to run on either coal or oil, but shortly after it was built, hydropower became the primary source of energy for the region and the plant operated until 1977 when it was completely decommissioned. The Steam Plant is a local treasure, grounded in the local stories, memories, and identity of the Duwamish Valley. It also sets a nationally recognized example for preservation and community regeneration.
We are proud to partner with the Georgetown SteamPlant CDA for this event. Learn more at:
https://www.georgetownsteamplant.org/
🌿 EVENT DETAILS:
The Cascadia BioFi Conference, held May 17–18, 2025, at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle, will bring together leaders at the edges of finance, circular economy, land regeneration, indigenous rematriation, community art, technology, and participatory governance to co-create pathways for bioregional funding ecosystems within the Cascadia bioregion that see people supported to do this work.
🌿 WHAT IS BIOREGIONAL FINANCE?
Bioregional Finance seeks to shift global and extractive systems toward local, long-term, sustainable initiatives that restore ecosystems and promote community well-being. By leveraging localized knowledge and resources, bioregional financing aims to build resilient economies that are in harmony with the unique needs of each bioregion. This landmark Cascadia BioFi event will explore the emerging field of bioregional finance (BioFi) through the practical question of how we regenerate the Duwamish River Valley and create a bioregional funding ecosystem within the Cascadia bioregion to support this work. You can read more by downloading the free E-Book Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate our Planet.
🌿 REGENERATE CASCADIA:
Growing from an activation tour around the Cascadia bioregion in October 2023 that met with more than 1000 people in 14 communities over 30 days, Regenerate Cascadia is a 501(c)3 program that creates the conditions for a regenerative movement to thrive, and asks the question “How do we regenerate an entire bioregion?” We are proud to organize the world's first “BioFi” conference with dozens of amazing organizers, communities, and organizations from around Seattle, Cascadia & North America. We can’t wait to see you there!
MORE INFO:
https://www.cascadiabiofi.org/
TICKETS:
https://www.cascadiabiofi.org/store/p/tickets
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