Please join the Board of Directors of Se’Si’Le on July 28 from 7:00-9:00 PM at the Clocktower Building in Friday Harbor for the first of our Salish Sea Series.
Honoring the Spirit of Place
When: July 28th, 2025 7pm - 9pm
Where: The Friday Harbor Clocktower
A. Cyaltsa April Finkbonner
The evening will honor the Spirit of Place through indigenous place-based identity, ancestral knowledge, and Indigenous ways of knowing, and being one with, nature.
The Series celebrates, reimagines and revitalizes cultural relationships centered on the salmon (scha’enexw) and the orca (qwe’lhol’mechen) — sacred relatives for Salish Sea Indigenous Nations.
Doors open at 7:00pm with music and light snacks with a post-event ‘mixer’ from 8:30pm-9:00pm
Evening Agenda
- 7:00 Doors Open: Social Mixer and Appetizers/Beverages/Music
- 7:30: Welcome: “Being with Nature and Our Ancestors in Our Homeland” Speaker: Jay Julius
- 7:45 "All Our Relations," Speaker: Cyaltsa Finkbonner
- 8:00: "An Indigenous Salish Sea Beyond Borders," Speaker: Rueben George
- 8:15 "The Quest for Identity and Common Ground," Speaker: JoDe Goudy
- 8:30 Wrap Up and: Social Mixer and Dessert/Coffee/Music
- 9:00 Doors Close
Featured Art: All Our Relations
This “All Our Relations “ metal sculpture was created by A. Cyaltsa April Finkbonner, a citizen of the Lummi Nation in Bellingham, Washington, and Board Member of Se’Si’Le. The impressive metal art-piece was made for Se’Si’Le’s 2023 “Free the Snake River” campaign. It honors Xa xalh Xechnging (“our sacred obligation”) to all our relations including the salmon (“scha’enexw”), the orca (“qwe’lhol mechen”), the spirit of the waters, and to the Warrior spirit of sәla-exʷ: “the strength that comes from the Old Ones.” It was displayed at each of the campaign’s events during the 14-day, 1,700-mile journey.
"All Our Relations“ metal sculpture created by A. Cyaltsa April Finkbonner
