Earthskills for Everybody: Firefly Gathering’s Equity Fund, Committee, and Growth

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With exciting expansions in our Equity Committee, Equity Fund, and plans for what this work looks like at the Annual Gathering itself, we invite you to read more about our current equity work and how to support these efforts.

Making Bone Tools: Craft and Kinship with Instructor Josh Barnwell

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“As people who value life and feel the weight of responsibility for every life taken to continue our own, learning how to utilize every part we can of these animal bodies draws us deeper into ties of kinship with the more than human world.”

Communication, Equity, and Inclusion for Community : Firefly Gathering Instructor Makeda Meeks

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“As long as white supremacy goes unchecked in our cultural communication and educational systems, the dream of community will evade us.”

Finding Love; Finding Freedom

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Every morning we have the opportunity to bravely face a new day and choose love. Despite the obstacles, we can work to remain filled with that mysterious love that wells up from deep within and fills every part of us. This is the love that heals and changes the world.

2020 Financial Statement

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We hope this finds you basking in the ever lengthening rays of spring sunshine, even if that means seeking out a solitary beam of sunlight and letting it fall upon you in your quarantined reality. Whatever this time may look like for you, may the sun shine upon you and fill your soul with joy!