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Sips & Sonnets

Island Shakespeare Festival’s third annual National Poetry Month Celebration!

April 13

Family Poetry Workshop | Langley Library | 1:00pm - 3:00pm

★ Elizabeth Austen, WA State Poet Laureate 2014-2016 | WICA | 4:00pm - 5:30pm ★

April 14

Judith Adams | Ott Hunter | 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Family Poetry Open Mic | Bayview Corner | 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Earlier Event: April 12
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Later Event: April 13
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.