In Support Of
Balancing the Biome: Rights of Nature
As living communities of animals, plants, people and microbes, diverse biomes thrive when each organism lives in symbiosis with others. This framework inspires CRUDE and Humble Bloom’s third Balancing the Biome Summit, entitled Rights of Nature, in support of Save Our Great Salt Lake.
Balancing the Biome: Rights of Nature is an invitation to reimagine collective stewardship of Great Salt Lake's precious ecosystems and the world at large. Through engaging firesides, expert-led panels, workshops, and a thoughtful lakeside ceremony, this summit connects the fight for Great Salt Lake’s survival to the wider water rights movement, inspiring cooperation and community to effect change locally and globally.
Starts at 10am MT Friday & Saturday
Industry SLC @ 650 S. 500 W., Salt Lake City, UT 84101
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Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake
CONFERENCE AT INDUSTRY SLC
WELCOME
Solonje Burnett and Danniel Swatosh of Humble Bloom
Denise Cartwright and Krista Parry of CRUDE
Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo and Blake Lavia: Artists, Community Organizers & Talking Wings Co-Founders
SOUL MOMENT: WATER WISDOM
Tap into the force universally symbolizing life, movement, purification, transformation, and healing.
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TBA
SAVE OUR GREAT SALT LAKE
The state and fate of Utah's Great Lake. How we got here, why current strategies have failed, and the need for a broarder, life-affirming movement like Rights of Nature.
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MODERATOR
Ali Vallarta of City Cast Salt Lake
FEATURING
Deeda Seed: Public Lands Senior Campaigner, Center for Biological Diversity
Nate Housley: Historian & Save Our Great Salt Lake Founding Member
Zach Frankel of Utah Rivers Council
BREAK: REFRESH & REVIVE
SOUL MOMENT: WATERWORKS
Select readings from award-winning authors and poets living and writing in Utah.
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RIGHTS OF NATURE: BEFORE WE RUN DRY
To meet the challenge of saving Great Salt Lake, we need a new approach. Rights of Nature is the movement shifting the paradigm in hearts, minds, and environmental law.
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MODERATOR
Yessenia Funes: Atmos Climate Editor & Journalist
FEATURING
Grant Wilson: Executive Director, Earth Law Center
Frank Bibeau: Leech Lake Reservation Tribal Attorney
Blake Lavia: Artist, Community Organizer & Talking Wings Co-Founder
SOUL MOMENT: REFLECTION & JOURNALING
Rights vs. Rites: Changing laws doesn't change minds. Explore the cultural shift needed to accept our relationship to nature and each other.
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LUNCH
MOVEMENT MOMENT
Meditative movement and breathwork for grounding and energizing bodies and minds.
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Kera Thompson: Registered Yoga Teacher
INTERSECTIONS OF A LIMINAL STATE
We sit at an interconnected series of crises threatening our survival. In order to heal and survive, we must take an intersectional approach to ecological restoration and grassroots organizing.
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MODERATOR
Alastair Lee Bitsóí: Writer, Creator, Storyteller, Farmer and Model/Actor
FEATURING
Ashley Finley: Birthkeeper and Community Activist
Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo: Artist, Community Organizer & Talking Wings Co-Founder
Katie Boué: Outdoor Advocacy Project Founder
Isaias Hernandez: Environmental Educator
SOUL-UTION SESSIONS
Community building and alternative learning workshops rooted in empathy and strategy.
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FEATURING
Meisei González of HEAL Utah leading a legislative workshop.
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COMMUNITY HERBALISM + COOPERATIVE MODELS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: Learn about Mobile Moon Co-op's model for wealth redistribution, power decentralization, and community-building as methods of fruitful resistance.
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FEATURING
Rikki Longino of Mobile Moon Co-op
BREAK: REFRESH & REVIVE
INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE
Environmental trauma can seriously impact our physical and mental health. Discover how community care is connected to self care.
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MODERATOR
Kristy Drutman of Green Jobs Board
FEATURING
Ashley Cleveland of Outdoor Afro
Brooke Larsen: Community Organizer & Writer
Luis Miranda: Climate & Social Justice Organizer
Olivia Juarez: Public Lands Director, GreenLatinos
MOCKTAIL HAPPY HOUR & CREATIVE CONNECT
A DAY AT THE LAKE
BUS DEPARTURE TO GREAT SALT LAKE
WELCOME + GROUNDING + INTRO TO GREAT SALT LAKE
SOUL MOMENT
Honoring the lake and its traditional stewards.
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TBA
BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
GREAT SALT LAKE PLANT WALK
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Jaimi Butler: Biologist & Great Salt Lake Nerd
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WRITING IN RELATIONSHIP TO GREAT SALT LAKE: GIVING VOICE TO GRIEF AND PRAISE
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FACILITATOR
Nan Seymour of Save Our Great Salt Lake & River Writing Collective
PICNIC LUNCH
COLLECTIVE HEALING
Imagining a new future: the change we want to be and see.
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Brooke Larsen: Community Organizer & Writer
Alastair Lee Bitsóí: Writer, Creator, Storyteller, Farmer and Model/Actor
CLOSING REFLECTIONS & INTEGRATION
Denise Cartwright of CRUDE
THANKS & BUS DEPARTURE
Equity Fund
Like our biomes, communities thrive when each part of the larger system can rely on the others for connection, healing, and sustenance. We created the Equity Fund to provide deserving community members with lesser means the opportunity to join us for the Balancing the Biome Summit.
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