Greeners, see which of us are participating in this Friday’s Olympia Art Walk. And if you or someone you know is presenting or performing, please add your information in the comment section!
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Michelle Burke (graduated 2016) will be peddling her ceramics at the Cascadia Homebrew shop on 4th!
I’ve got an installation of 365 photos up at Flourish in Olympia, which is in-between the guitar shop and the Spar on 4th. It’s the first time I’ve ever shown at Arts Walk.
Julia Zay, Member of the Faculty in Media and Visual Art, will be showing new work in sculpture and photography at the Olympia Knitting Mills Artist Collective Gallery, 508 Legion Way (between Jefferson and Cherry) for ArtsWalk Friday and Saturday.
Hope to see you there!
PLEASE ANNOUNCE OR POST TO CLASSES:
From Olympians Confronting the Climate Crisis:
Join us Friday at 6:00 pm at the Artesian Well in a peaceful procession through Olympia Arts Walk to educate the public about the use of our Port to supply oil fracking in North Dakota.
Meet to hear speakers at the Artesian Well (4th & Jefferson) on Friday Oct. 7 at 6:00 pm, then walk with banners and flyers to end in front of DeColores / Washington Center (5th & Washington).
WATER IS LIFE / KEEP THE OIL IN THE SOIL.
Oil fracking in the Bakken Basin of North Dakota threatens groundwater with chemical wastes, women’s safety with huge “man camps,” public safety with exploding oil trains, and our climate with greenhouse gases. As Billy Frank Jr. said, “oil and water don’t mix, and neither do oil and fish….It’s not a matter of whether spills will happen, it’s a matter of when.”
STAND WITH STANDING ROCK AND QUINAULT.
Native nations are in the forefront of stopping the Bakken oil monster. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is protecting the Missouri River in North Dakota from the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Quinault Indian Nation is leading the fight to protect our coast from the proposed Grays Harbor oil terminal, where 44,000 people are in the oil train Blast Zone (including 11,000 kids).
STOP FRACKING SANDS AT THE PORT OF OLYMPIA.
Our public Port is complicit in oil fracking by importing fracking sands from China. These ceramic “proppants” prop open bedrock cracks as water and chemicals extract oil. The Port loads the 1.5-ton proppant sacks on trains to North Dakota, and there is a new shipment awaiting multiple trains this month. We do not want our Port to contribute to carbon pollution, water contamination, or injustices to Indigenous nations.
WHAT YOU CAN DO.
Invite friends for Friday’s walk from the Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1674967442820252/
Show Solidarity at Indigenous Peoples Day on
Monday, October 10, in Heritage Park at 4-8 pm:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1011299385635961/
Attend the “No Oil Fracking Sands at Our Port” rally, on
Saturday, October 22, 1:00 pm at the tower on Port Plaza, near Farmer’s Market.
Stand with Standing Rock :
http://www.standingrock.org or http://www.sacredstonecamp.org
Stand with Quinault to stop the Grays Harbor oil terminal:
https://www.facebook.com/QINDefense
Educate yourself on fracking sands at our Port:
https://olympiapfr.wordpress.com/
http://www.theolympian.com/opinion/article25323229.html
Come to an action training on Thursday, October 6, Evergreen CAB 301, 1-6 pm.
Get involved in helping to plan action, by contacting olyccc@earthlink.net
Photography show at Oly Taproom (312 Columbia St NW, Olympia, WA 98501), featuring recent work by Corey Coomes & Ashley Miller, TESC alumni and staff
I’m showing two photo pieces at Gallery Boom off of Legion. First time showing!