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CCAC Presents: Whidbey's Water Future in a Changing Climate

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Day two of the Climate Change Conference Weekend.

The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts and the Langley Climate Crisis Action Committee are collaborating with scientists and WATER experts to bring you the Whidbey Water Story in an all-day event. Featured speakers include Dr. Richard Gammon, Dr. Paul Belanger, Penny Livingston, John Lovie, Brian Kerkvliet, Jake Stewart and more.

Come join us to learn more about this precious resource and what you can do to help Whidbey Island become a RESILIENT REFUGE for generations to come.

Water is Life – When you have it you don’t think about it, when you don’t it’s ALL you think about!

Saturday June 10
9 AM - 5 PM

Tickets available:
All seats: $20

Whidbey’s Water Future in a Changing Climate - Schedule

8:30 Doors Open

BLOCK 1: 9:00 -11:20 AM

9: 30 AM: Whidbey Island: Our Water Future in a Changing - Richard Gammon

10:05 AM: Whidbey’s Living Water Cycle - Perry Lovelace

10:40 AM: New Water Paradigm: Water is Earth’s Blood - Brian Kerkvliet

11:15-12:30 LUNCH on site plus Table time in foyer

Sack Lunch - with soup available.

BLOCK 2: 12:30-1:30 PM

Workshops - participants pick either A (in Main Stage) or B (in Zech Hall)

1A- How sea level Change will impact erosion of our bluffs and threaten our Aquifers: what citizens can do for mitigation - Paul Belanger

1B- Water, Soil and the Local Food System: Regenerative Farming Solutions for Resiliency in a Changing Climate - Jake Stewart

1:30-2:30 PM

2A- Designing a Water Resilient Landscape - Brian Kerkvliet

2B- Wetlands - Leah Beckett

2:30-3:30 PM

3A- Grey Water & Rainwater Harvesting - Penny Livingston

3B- Groundwater Contamination and Protection On Whidbey Island - John Lovie

BLOCK 3: 3:35 - 5:00 PM

Reflections - Pamela Bond

4:15-5:00 Panel of all speakers for Q&A

Earlier Event: June 9
Octopus in the Parking Garage: Rob Verchick
Later Event: June 16
Holly Morris' Exposure [Film and Conversation]

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.