Ceremonial Sounds • A Benefit for The NEST

Ceremonial Sounds 5/30, 7pm-11pm

@Soft Medicine, Sebastopol

A Benefit for the NEST

Artist hub for sustainable solutions

Performances by:

Amré Leon (soulful violin)

Audiopharmacy (Indigenous world)

Chris 2nite (Fiji afrobeats)

I. Rizzy (Vinyl classics)

Kara Kersey (reggae dancehall)

K’DJ (AP Collective)

Miss Doubt (Spoken word fire)

Niko Otis (bay area bangers)

Sabiee (acapella electronica)

Teao Sense ( AP collective)

2xStormz Vicious (Indigenous lyricism)

Silent Art Auction with Artwork by:

Eric Wilder, Kashaya Pomo, @wildereric

Gabe Patton, San Carlos Apache, @wherethelandmeetstheskystudios

Hinu Sarah Joy Tang, Ho Chunk Nation @creativenativegraphics

Diego Irizirry, Pueblo/Mexica, @irizy96

Eloisa Oropezo, Ha Bida Pomo, @youbethedog19

Nelida Samara, Mexica/Purepecha, @nelidasamara

Magalli Larqué- Mexica/Lakota, @xicanx_culkin

Carolyn McDonald, @createdbycarolyn

Amanda Ayala, @Xicanaollin

Annalisa Sher, @annalisaart

Alicia Silva, Graton Rancheria, @kittypainted

Kuzzin Drew, Kashaya Pomo, @3dkuzzin

Mariella de la Paz, @mariela.delapaz.art

Bryce Burroughs, Dry Creek Pomo, @khalewasn3

Plant Bundles and Cleanses by Abi Huff

Plant Spirit Practitioner and Energy worker

This is a ticketed event (Sliding scale $15-1,000)

Tickets at the door will be $20

Light food and beverages will be served with all proceeds going to support the NEST Community Arts Center and the build out of our sustainable artist hub in Sonoma County.

About the NEST:

The NEST works to rebuild the village, embodying our values of Indigenous self-determination through lived sustainability, growing as intergenerational community, and nurturing arts/cultural lifeways, rooted upon the ancestral homelands we tend and share.

Our work to build the NEST fulfills the need of supporting Indigenous frontline communities and artists. We purchased our lot in 2012 in Pomo territory. The NEST is an artistic hub for solutions and the first sustainably built, Indigenous led center for the arts in California. By curating and publishing art and music each year for over 20 years with SNAG Magazine we have published over 600 Native artists to date in a stunning collection of 12, 64-page issues, and a 300 page anthology. By providing our own media platform we dismantle stereotypes in media, and create new positive narratives written, performed and made by Native people.

Last year we grew our capacity by installing a 30’ Yurt Gathering Space to host community events, ceremony and workshops. This year we have expanded the NEST garden, and have made plans for the new community bath house.

These upgrades are expanding our hosting capacity for artists, youth groups, medicine workers, and culture bearers. Come celebrate our growth and gift of community interdependence.

For more info: @snag.magazine, snagmagazine.com, nesbuildcreate.com

Photo by: Vita Hewitt, hewittphotography.mypixieset.com

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