JOIN US! Upcoming Events and Engagement Opportunities - 2024
SOS and our coalition partners and allies are organizing events and activities across the region to educate and inspire, and engage and mobilize the public and policymakers to act in 2024 - to develop and implement a comprehensive regional solution that protects and restores Snake River wild salmon and steelhead and invests in Northwest communities.
Please join us at these upcoming events - to speak up for the Snake River, its wild salmon and steelhead, Southern Resident orcas, and to support Northwest Tribes.
If you have questions or want to get more involved, please contact Abby Dalke at abby@wildsalmon.org. To take action now, visit our action alert page!
Upcoming Events
October 22, 2024: Children of the Setting Sun's Netse Mot: One People Gathering
When: October 22 at 7pm - 9:30pm
Where: Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA
What: One People Gathering is a movement toward healing and unity, inviting everyone to engage with Indigenous voices. “Netse Mot,” or “One heart, one mind,” reflects our commitment to shared humanity and values of gratitude, generosity, and respect in a divided world. In the face of threats like war, political unrest, climate change, and cultural differences, it's time to confront these challenges and rise above them as one united force—One People.
Children of the Setting Sun invites you to join the One People Gathering with special speakers and performers, including Dallas Goldtooth, Amy Bowers Cordalis, Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Delbert Anderson, Sammy Gensaw III, Black Lodge Singers, Notorious Cree, Fawn Wood, Tia Wood, and Coast Salish Canoe Families.
Fall 2024: The Grand Salmon film screening
When: Find a film screening across the nation!
What: Following three women on a 78-day paddling expedition, The Grand Salmon explores the effects of four dams on the Lower Snake River and their impact throughout the watershed on rapidly dwindling wild salmon populations. For over 1,000 miles, these women navigate the same waterways wild salmon have for generations, connecting the source of the Salmon River to the Pacific Ocean. From high water to extreme temperatures, this team not only faces the same natural challenges the fish do each year, but brings viewers along to experience what the construction of these dams has done to our ecosystems and wildlife.
Find a film screening near you!
Past Events
July 31 - August 23, 2024: SUPER POD: All Together
What: Artist and Orca Advocate Gabriel Newton has painted all 74 remaining Southern Resident Orcas to raise awareness of the urgent need to protect the Orca and take action. His dichromatic paintings are painted in acrylic on found wood gathered from the shores of the Salish Sea, home of our beloved Southern Residents. Sponsored by the Endangered Species Coalition, Sierra Club, Earth Ministry, Se’Si’ Le, Northwest Artists Against Extinction, and A/NT Gallery. Questions? Contact: jrosapepe@endangered.org
August 21: Dammed to Extinction Movie Night
What: Join Save Our Wild Salmon’s NextGen Salmon Collective for a Dammed to Extinction movie party. Preventing salmon and orca extinction via Columbia/Snake River restoration is essential to honoring Tribal treaty rights and protecting the right to a future with a safe, healthy environment for all in the Northwest. The watch party will consist of a screening of Dammed to Extinction followed by a Q&A with regional experts and youth advocates, as well as an opportunity for you to write messages to your members of Congress asking them to support the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative.
August 6, 2024: Salmon Life Cycle Pedapalooza Ride
What: We're celebrating salmon and advocating for lower Snake River Dam removal. Let’s get together for a fun ride centered on environmental activism and a shared love of free-flowing rivers! Join Greater Hells Canyon Council, Pacific Rivers, and Save Our wild Salmon for a ride focused on salmon appreciation, education, and advocacy.
Questions? Contact: nash@hellscanyon.org
July 20, 2024: Free the Snake Flotilla
What: A Free the Snake Flotilla, hosted by Nimíipuu Protecting the Environment, to honor the salmon and Snake River. Raise your voices to support treaty rights and breach the Lower Snake River Dams.
Questions? Contact:
Julian Matthews | email: protectingnimiipuu@gmail.com
Maria E. | email: nimiipuu.protecting1@gmail.com
June 2024: Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin Book Launch Tour
What: Join Save Our wild Salmon and Braided River Publishing for a book release events throughout June to experience a multimedia journey along the Columbia River from source to sea with photographer David Moskowitz, author Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, tribal members, and other people from across the region as part of the launch of the new book, Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin.
June 12, 2024: All Our Relations: Tribute to the Orca
What: Join us for an evening centered around raising up Indigenous voices and re-imagining our relationship with Nature. Indigenous leaders will explore several interwoven issues to increase awareness of their ancient kinship with the orca, the salmon, and their heritage of honoring our caretaker: Mother Nature.
February – May 2024: Snake River Dinner Hour Webinar Series
What: The Snake River Dinner Hour provides a space for folks to learn more about saving salmon, honoring treaty obligations, and creating solutions for Northwest communities. Join us to participate in civil dialogue as we each bring different opinions and perspectives to the table. Watch the Snake River Dinner Hour recordings at snakeriverdinnerhour.org
May 7, 2024: NW Energy Coalition’s 'Clean & Affordable Energy Conference' (Boise, ID)
What: The Clean & Affordable Energy Conference, hosted by the NW Energy Coalition is on May 7 in Boise, Idaho! Network with peers in the clean energy community and hear from experts on the pressing energy issues in our region, including affordable, reliable energy services and Columbia Basin salmon recovery, ensuring new electricity markets and transmission upgrades benefit Northwest communities and protecting customers and communities as the region decarbonizes.
April 24, 2024: Voices for the West: At the Intersection of Art and Activism webinar
What: Creativity bears a unique power, capable of rendering our world in terms that can inspire movement. Today, in the face of twin climate and biodiversity crises, and ever-increasing threats to humans from environmental degradation, artists wield a powerful tool to bring about change by raising new awareness, engaging people at a deeper level, and inspiring action. Join the Voices for the West: At the Intersection of Art and Activism webinar by Advocates for the West to hear from panelists: Rachel Teannalach, Miguel Almeida, M Acuff, Britt Freda.
March 16, 2024: An Evening of Music Inspired by I Sing the Salmon Home by Rena Priest
What: Join us at Town Hall Seattle to hear original music inspired by the poetry anthology published last year - I Sing The Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State by Rena Priest. SOS was honored to be included as a partner organization for I Sing the Salmon Home with Ms. Priest and the good people of Empty Bowl Press. This event is presented by Bushwick Book Club Seattle and Empty Bowl Press.
Feb 24 Sacred Salmon Town Hall At Seattle University
When: Saturday, Feb. 24 at 10-11:30 am
Where: Seattle U. Student Center 160, LeRoux Conference Room
What: Stand in solidarity with our community as we raise our collective voices to elected officials to advocate for the respect and upholding or tribal treaties, the preservation and restoration of salmon and our common home, and for the removal of the four lower Snake River dams! This is free and open to the public.
Meaningful Movies: Covenant of the Salmon People film screening
When: Saturday, Feb. 17 at 7 - 9 pm.
Where: 6038 South Pilgrim Street Seattle, in Rainier Beach
What: Covenant of the Salmon People is a 60-minute documentary portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe as they continue to carry out their ancient promise to protect Chinook salmon, cornerstone species and first food their people have subsisted on for tens of thousands of years. As a dammed river system and climate impacts threaten the extinction of Chinook salmon, a cornerstone of their culture and ancestral diet, they continue to do their part to uphold this relationship-but will it be enough to save wild salmon from extinction?
January 24, 2024 - Salmon Orca Project's 'Tribal Voices Matter: Collaborative Conservation Effort'
When: January 24, 2024, 12 pm PST
Where: Virtual via Zoom
What: Join Salmon Orca Project in their next Tribal Voices Matter focused on collaborative conservation efforts. Key topics include successful partnerships in conservation, strategies for collaborative conservation, and inspiring environmental action.
January 25, 2024 - Legislative Education & Advocacy Fair 
When: January 25, 2024, 6 pm PST
Where: Virtual via Zoom
What: Join organizations across Washington for a special educational workshop & advocacy fair on January 25th from 6-7:30pm. During this advocacy fair, learn how to do legislative advocacy in Washington State, and connect with awesome groups in Washington who are doing legislative advocacy work around environment, climate, justice, and more.
Boldt at 50: Reflecting on Treaty Justice and Tribal Sovereignty
When: Monday, Feb.12, Doors open at 7pm, Panel begins at 7:30pm.
Where: Seattle Town Hall
What: Boldt at 50 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision, a pivotal moment in civil rights history and tribal sovereignty. Centered around Charles Wilkinson’s acclaimed work, Treaty Justice, a panel will discuss the Boldt Decision and its enduring impact on the tribal sovereignty movement in the PNW and beyond. The event is set to open with Native drummers; remarks from Darrell Hillaire, executive director of Children of the Setting Sun Productions.
