Events and Engagement
March 20th, 2025
Reciprocity - 2025 Webinar Series
This year, Save Our wild Salmon Coalition is hosting a new webinar series: RECIPROCITY! It will focus on respecting and caring for salmon and their special relationship to the health of ecosystems, our lands and waters, and other species and people.
This spring and fall, we will spend time with experts and storytellers who share their experiences, collaborative work, and stories of reciprocity to help recover healthy and abundant salmon populations in the Columbia-Snake Rivers and the benefits they bring to the Northwest and the nation.
To learn more and register, visit our Reciprocity page on Save Our wild Salmon:
April 24th, 2024
Voices for the West: At the Intersection of Art and Activism (Virtual)
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 on April 24 to discuss the intersection of the arts and environmental activism with panelists:
- Rachel Teannalach, landscape painter and Northwest Artist Against Extinction collaborative artist
- Miguel Almeida, illustrator and muralist
- M Acuff, artist and a Professor of Art at Whitman College
- Britt Freda, artist and Creative Director at Northwest Artists Against Extinction
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April 22nd, 2024
NWAAE / SOS' 2024 poster competition
Join us! If you are an artist or know a creative advocate and would like to be a part of the NWAAE collective to defend Northwest salmon and orca and restore the gifts they bring to our communities, there are still a few days left to submit poster artwork for the 2024 poster competition. Deadline is Earth Day, April 22nd.
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Sept 23rd - Oct 1st, 2023
2023 All Our Relations Snake River Campaign
You Are Invited: Please join us as we raise our voices to support treaty rights in the Columbia River basin and the health of the Salish Sea bio-region by bearing witness to the urgency of breaching without further delay the Lower Snake River Dams.
Sept 25: Portland 6-8pm
Sept 26: Pasco 10:30a-1:00pm
Sept 27 Spokane 6-8pm
Sept 30: Hells Gate Park 8:30am-2:00pm
Oct 1: Seattle 6-8pm
View the All Our Relations page or the PDF flyer for location details and contact information.
June 22, 2023
An Evening of Poetry, Art and Storytelling,
When: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Where: Patagonia Seattle, 2100 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98121-2103
What: Please join Patagonia Seattle, Empty Bowl Press, Wandering Aengus Press and Save Our wild Salmon Coalition for an evening of art, poetry, and story celebrating salmon and orca on June 22nd at the Patagonia Seattle store from 7 - 9pm!
The event will feature the newly released anthology I Sing The Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, edited by Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, and published by Empty Bowl Press, and For the Love of Orcas published by Wandering Aengus Press. Creative contributors from both anthologies with recite poetry along with additional stories and poems.
June 22, 2023
Honor: People, Salmon & Orca
When: May through June, 2023
Where: Patagonia Seattle, 2100 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98121-2103
What: You’re invited to Northwest Artists Against Extinction and Patagonia Seattle’s Honor: People, Salmon, & Orca exhibit!
First shown at the University of Puget Sound, artwork from this exhibit is now being displayed at Patagonia Seattle through June - and in honor of Orca Action Month, is expanding to honor the Southern Residents as well.
In honor of Orca Action Month in June and the complex ecosystems on which our salmon-eating Southern Resident orcas depend, Patagonia Seattle has partnered with Northwest Artists Against Extinction (NWAAE) and Save Our wild Salmon Coalition to bring a number of artworks from the recent Honor: People and Salmon exhibit at University of Puget Sound to the walls of the Patagonia, Seattle, retail store through May and June.
April 15, 2023
Honor: People and Salmon Poetry Reading and Closing Reception
When: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Where: Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 
What: As a grand finale for the Honor: People & Salmon exhibit, Save Our wild Salmon Coalition, NWAAE and University of Puget Sound’s Kittredge Gallery will host a closing reception with many of the participating artists in attendance! The closing reception is free and open to the public. The reception will host a poetry reading from the newly released anthology I Sing The Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, edited by Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, and published by Empty Bowl Press with a grant from the Academy of American Poets.
Holly J. Hughes, co-publisher of Empty Bowl Press, will be joined by contributing poets Arianne True, the newest Washington State Poet Laureate, Kathryn True, Ann Spiers, Linera Lucas, and Sasha LaPointe, who will share their poems from the newly released anthology.
March 23, 2023
NWAAE Panel Discussion at the University of Puget Sound to Honor: People and Salmon
When: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Where: Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
What: Northwest Artists Against Extinction hosted a panel discussion about honoring people and salmon. Panelists discussed distinct, complementary, and interconnected ways of understanding and advocating for salmon as well as how this keystone species affects and inspires people and communities.
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March 6 - April 15, 2023
Honor: People and Salmon Exhibit
Where: Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
What: Honor: People and Salmon, an exhibit of works by artist-advocates who create art to evoke support for restoring salmon and orcas, their lands and waters, and the many communities that honor and cherish these emblematic species. Salmon are intrinsic to the cultures and economies of many Northwest Tribes and an essential food source for endangered Southern Resident orcas.
Read our ARTICLE and what was written and heard IN THE NEWS
- Northwest Public Broadcasting audio file and written piece (May 19, 2023)
- The Puget Sound Trail: Honoring People and Salmon at Kittredge Gallery (April 4, 2023)
September 22, 2022
The Salmon Way: A Multimedia Journey with Photographer and Author Amy Gulick about the State of Salmon (Seattle, WA)
click to viewWhen: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Patagonia Seattle, Seattle, WA
What: Join us on September 22, 7pm in Seattle for a FREE, inspiring presentation and book signing with Amy Gulick, photographer and author of the award-winning book, The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind and Joseph Bogaard, executive director of Save Our wild Salmon.
Participating organizations: Braided River, Save our Wild Salmon, and Patagonia.
June 25th, 2022
Rally for the Snake River and its endangered salmon!
Where: Willamette Park in Portland, OR
Contact for more information: Doug Howell, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
May 10, 2022
Amy Gulick Presentation and Book Signing (Port Townsend, WA)
When: 7:00 - 8:30 pm, doors open at 6:15
Where: The Rose Theater, 235 Taylor Street
What: Join us for an evening with Amy Gulick with a presentation and book signing.
This event is free but donations are encouraged!
Contact: For more information email Amy Grondin,
April 28, 2022
Expedition Reclamation Film Screening & Panel Discussion (Spokane, WA)
When: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
click to viewWhere: Gonzaga University - Basement theatre in the Hemmingson Center
What: Join us for a screening of the film Expedition Reclamation followed by a panel discussion featuring some of the women from WA highlighted in the movie! Expedition Reclamation is a documentary seeking to redefine “outdoorsy” and reclaim belonging in the outdoors for Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color by highlighting their joyful, resilient, & transformative relationships to outdoor recreation.
To learn more and receive event updates RSVP here! To share this event with your networks, visit our Facebook Event!
Participating organizations: Gonzaga Outdoors, the Carl Maxey Center ,The Lands Council, Spokane Riverkeeper, 350 Spokane, Save Our wild Salmon Coalition, ROW Adventures, Spokane Falls Community College Sustainability Center Gonzaga's Hawaii/Pacific Islanders Club, Gonzaga's Office of Sustainability, Wander Spokane, and special guests!
Contact: For more information email Carrie Herrman,
April 26, 2022
Imagine a Free-Flowing Snake River with Chris Wood (Spokane, WA)
click to viewWhen: 7:00 pm
Where: Gonzaga University - The Globe Room in Cataldo Hall
What: Please join Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood to envision a free-flowing Snake River and a future with updated infrastructure and robust runs of wild fish. The Spokane Falls Chapter of Trout Unlimited will host Chris as he leads a dialogue about dams on the Snake River, the economic and cultural opportunities for Eastern Washington, and what the path forward looks like to save endangered Snake River salmon and steelhead.
April 23, 2022 - 11:00-1:00
Earth Day Celebration & Call to Action (Port Angeles, WA)
click to viewWhere: City Pier 315 North Lincoln Street, Port Angeles, WA
Celebrate Earth Day, 2022 at the City Pier in Port Angeles!
Hear calls to action for endangered salmon and orcas from Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe Chairman Ron Allen and confronting the climate crisis from Clallam Co. Commissioner Mark Ozias.
Educate yourself at informational tables sponsored by numerous groups. And hear free music from Peninsula favorites Kim Trenerry and Jason Mogi.
Following the City Pier event, join the beach cleanup sponsored by the Surfrider Foundation.
More information coming soon!
April 2, 2022 - 10:00 am - 12:30 pm PDT
Stop Salmon Extinction Rally & March in Olympia
click to viewWhere: The Olympia Ballroom, 116 Legion Way SE in Olympia, WA
Join us for inspiring speakers, help us create short video testimonials for social media, and then join us for a processional to the Capitol Campus for lunch and the Human Orca Mural. Gov. Inslee will be invited to greet us. Procession led by the Artesian Rumble Arkestra & food by Nineveh.
To learn more RSVP here! To get event updates, and share this event with friends visit our Facebook Event!
March 31, 2022 - 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
#StopSalmonExtinction Event Series (1st Installment)
click to viewWhere: Magic Lantern Theatre in Spokane, WA
Join us for a social hour from 5:00-6:00 pm with our guest speaker Rocky Barker followed by a film and presentation with time for questions after. Our #StopSalmonExtinction Event Series from March to June will feature authors doing book signings, film screenings, and other community engagement opportunities in Spokane and the Inland Northwest!
To learn more RSVP here! To get event updates, and share this event with friends visit our Facebook Event!
March 26, 2022 - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT
Stop Salmon Extinction Rally & March in Tacoma
click to viewWhere: University of Washington Tacoma, William Philip Hall
Come enjoy free music, food, great speakers, and a processional to the congressional offices of U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, Senator Patty Murray, and Senator Maria Cantwell to encourage them to remove the lower Snake River dams in order to save salmon, orca, and honor tribal rights!
To learn more RSVP here! To get event updates, and share this event with friends visit our Facebook Event!
March 24, 2022 - 2:30 pm - 7:30 pm MDT
Tales from the River at Storyfort
Where: The Egyptian Theatre in Boise, ID
Idaho Sierra Club and Idaho Conservation League invite you to join the region's river community in celebrating the wild river systems, fish, and wilderness. We have teamed up with Storyfort to bring you a three-story series that focuses on various aspects of Idaho’s river culture. Whether it be heartfelt tales spun from the fabric of river culture or embarrassing and silly river happenings – verbal, artistic, and photographic storytelling will transport you into the unique and interconnected world of rivers, salmon, and people. After the story series, join us at Lost Grove Brewery to learn how you can help protect this cultural lifeblood of Idaho, enjoy live music, and share your own river stories!
To learn more, get event updates, and share this event with friends visit our Facebook Event!
