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The Albatross on Midway Island: An Evening with Chris Jordan

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA, 98260 United States (map)

Over the course of eight trips to the isolated Midway Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Chris Jordan documented the beauty of the albatross birds that nest there and their plight as the result of massive plastic pollution in our oceans.

Jordan is an artist and photographer based in Seattle. A former corporate lawyer, Chris is dedicated to raising consciousness through his photographic art that illustrates the far-reaching and destructive impact of our everyday habits.

Admission is FREE.

The Trudy J. Sundberg Lecture Series is sponsored by the Sno-Isle Library Foundation 

Earlier Event: April 27
Celebration of Dance
Later Event: May 4
A Conversation on the State of American Politics with CNN's Gloria Borger

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.