Finding Oasis: Signal Fire's suite of virtual programs designed by and prioritizing BIPOC communities to create coalitions between Indigenous Land Back and Black Liberation communities seeking land justice in the Pacific Northwest.

Over the course of two gatherings, we will share global films, hold space for story-telling and processing, connect with regional food sovereignty projects, and offer arts-integrated actionable steps and strategies to deepen BIPOC community connections with local land.

February 15th 6:30pm PST: BIPOC Post-Screening Circle: “This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection.”

In our first workshop of the series, facilitators and speakers will hold a post screening discussion in BIPOC affinity space after audiences have viewed the Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s work entitled “This is not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection” in partnership with the Cascade Festival of African Films and BEAM Village. In the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow named Mantoa resolves herself to defend the spiritual heritage of the community as provincial officials intend to resettle the village, flood the entire area, and build a dam for a reservoir.

March 25th 6:30pm PST: BIPOC Post-Screening Circle: “Invasion”

The second Workshop in March will also engage BIPOC participants, facilitators, and speakers as we continue this interactive dialogue through story circles and small groups. This time we gather around “Invasion,” a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. We will be focusing on building coalitions in our region, nationally, and internationally around Black and Indigenous Land Back movements.

April 17th: Semi-Annual Alumni Summit

Finally, all Signal Fire Alumni and friends are invited to join Finding Oasis participants in a spring Summit! Our Alumni Summit will continue to engage BIPOC and white counterparts in coalition building by attuning with our collective mission, sharing mutual aid, and networking. Each program will help communities explore complex topics surrounding public land access, and identifying and unlearning settler colonial constructs of nature.