CN! project Rain City Slam presents it’s 2019 Grand Slam featuring legendary poet Wil Gibson. This is Rain City Slam’s most fierce competition of the year!
Did you know that we support grassroots projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana?
Join us, other awesome Cascadians, and climate activists around the world in signing the petition asking the Nobel Foundation Board to create a new Nobel Prize for the Fight Against Climate Change NOW!
Great Northwest Productions, a CN! nonprofit family member, presents an art & music series, filmed & recorded in unique locations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Nourishing Neighbors is a "pay-it-forward" program that lets patrons of local businesses donate towards the next meal for a community member in need.
The Cascadia Regional Poetry Slam is a tournament showcasing top performance poets from cities throughout the Northwest. Teams from Seattle, Olympia, Vancouver, and more, will compete to gain admission to the National Poetry Slam in Chicago, IL this summer.
A poem by CascadiaNow! Ambassador Wally du Temple inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by the flooding of their communal homelands by the building of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in BC, where another dam down stream, The Site ‘C’ Dam, is now being planned.
The third annual Cascadia Poetry Festival held from April 30th-May 3rd in Nanaimo, British Columbia, was a huge success! Hundreds of poets, writers and Cascadians gathered for a wonderful weekend in which they explored what it meant to explore and tell the story of this amazing region.
See more than 260 pictures here, and watch their recorded performances, and learn more on their website at cascadiapoetryfestival.com and make sure to stay up to date by following @Cascadiapoetry on twitter, and their facebook page.
You can see a youtube playlist of the readings here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5MQUVbBU8suvnK_PEKqmzRpGEVPsWScr
