Cascadia Culture

Cascadia Culture Bioregional booking and events company shaping culture in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 🏔

06/03/2026

This Summer Solstice, Cascadia Culture is calling in a small circle of musicians, storytellers, culture tenders, and community builders in the North Cascades to help shape the vision for a new folk festival.

2026 is a seed year, a rare opportunity to be part of the dreaming, listening, and visioning process before a larger public-facing festival begins in 2027. Rather than arriving with a fully formed model, we are intentionally inviting the community into a co-creative process.

This is a special opportunity to help shape the direction, values, and spirit of what this gathering wants to become.

Over the course of the weekend, we’ll engage in land listening, facilitated conversations, ceremony, acoustic music jams, song circles, storytelling, ancestral skill sharing, and explore questions like:

~ What does folk culture mean in this time?
~ What traditions are worth tending forward?
~ How do we create gatherings that feel more participatory, intentional, and connected to place?

We are looking for people who feel genuinely called to this work ~ people who care deeply about community, land, music, art, and shaping culture, together.

If this calls to you, fill out our interest form ~ 🔗 link in bio

June brings us to the threshold of the Summer Solstice, the longest days of the year and the peak of the sun’s power.Acr...
06/02/2026

June brings us to the threshold of the Summer Solstice, the longest days of the year and the peak of the sun’s power.

Across Cascadia, the world is alive with color, movement, and growth. Gardens are bursting with abundance, wildflowers blanket hillsides, and the days stretch long into golden evenings that invite us outdoors and into community.

This season carries an energy of vitality, creativity, expression, joy, and participation. As we arrive at the height of the year, we’re reflecting on a simple question:

What makes you feel most ALIVE? ☀️

For us, the answer keeps returning to the same places: land, culture, creativity, and community.

Music shared under open skies. Conversations around a fire. Dancing barefoot in the grass. Learning new skills. Supporting local artists. Gathering with people who remind us that another way of living is possible.

These experiences do more than entertain us. They help us reconnect to ourselves, each other, and the places we call home. They remind us that culture is not something we consume. It is something we create together.

As we move toward the Summer Solstice, we hope you make time for what nourishes your spirit and brings you joy. We hope you seek out the people, places, and experiences that help you shine.

➡️ Read the full June newsletter ~ 🔗 link in bio!

🌿🎶 We’re so excited to announce SONG CAMP with  | July 24–26, 2026 in Port Townsend, WAA small, intimate weekend of song...
05/25/2026

🌿🎶 We’re so excited to announce SONG CAMP with | July 24–26, 2026 in Port Townsend, WA

A small, intimate weekend of song circles, songwriting workshops, harmony singing, creative exploration, nature reflection, and community encouragement in the forest.

Together, we’ll explore the elements of song through:
~ songwriting workshops
~ harmony singing
~ vocal embodiment
~ jams + song circles
~ morning movement
~ song sharing soirées
~ collaborative support

This is a space for singers, songwriters, musicians, and creative people who want to deepen their relationship with voice, creativity, and community. Beginners welcome!

🥗 Shared meals provided
🌿 Limited to 40 participants
⛺️ Tent and car camping available
🎶 Friday public concert with
✨ Sliding scale tickets + BIPOC scholarships available

🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW! >

✨PORTLAND!✨  and  are celebrating the release of their new albums with a very special gathering at  on June 18th!These a...
05/23/2026

✨PORTLAND!✨ and are celebrating the release of their new albums with a very special gathering at on June 18th!

These are two artists we deeply believe in. Their music carries themes of healing, freedom, liberation, ancestry, mystery, and reconnection with the earth and the old ways. Both albums are now live on Bandcamp and we encourage you to spend time listening before the show!

This night will bring together visionary folk, medicine music, soaring vocals, live painters, and community. With local support from Portland’s own , it’s shaping up to be a truly beautiful celebration together.

Don’t miss this very special evening in Portland!

🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Link in comments

This Summer Solstice, Cascadia Culture is calling in a small circle of musicians, storytellers, culture tenders, and com...
05/22/2026

This Summer Solstice, Cascadia Culture is calling in a small circle of musicians, storytellers, culture tenders, and community builders in the North Cascades to help shape the vision for a new folk festival.

🌀 Co-Visioning Team Leads:bonn .lux

2026 is a seed year, a rare opportunity to be part of the dreaming, listening, and visioning process before a larger public-facing festival begins in 2027. Rather than arriving with a fully formed model, we are intentionally inviting the community into a co-creative process.

This is a special opportunity to help shape the direction, values, and spirit of what this gathering wants to become. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll engage in land listening, facilitated conversations, ceremony, acoustic music jams, song circles, storytelling, ancestral skills, crafts, and explore questions like:

~ What does folk culture mean in this time?
~ What traditions are worth tending forward?
~ How do we create gatherings that feel more participatory, intentional, and connected to place?

We are looking for people who feel genuinely called to this work ~ people who care deeply about community, land, music, art, and shaping culture, together.

If this calls to you, fill out our interest form ~ 🔗 link in comments below.

✨ EUGENE! ✨ We are thrilled to announce an intimate evening of sacred music, prayer, and connection with  at the beautif...
05/22/2026

✨ EUGENE! ✨ We are thrilled to announce an intimate evening of sacred music, prayer, and connection with at the beautiful Mandala Sanctuary 🌿

Rooted in the musical traditions of West Africa while infused with soulful melodies and meditative rhythms, Youssoupha’s music is immersive, heart-opening, and deeply healing.

Through the transcendent sounds of the kora and expressive vocals, this gathering invites us to slow down, listen deeply, and experience music as medicine.

This will be a cozy, intimate evening in a beautiful private sanctuary space with limited capacity.

🚪 Doors: 7:00 PM
🎶 Music: 7:30–9:00 PM
🗓️ Thursday, June 4, 2026
📍 Mandala Sanctuary - Address TBA

🎟️ Tickets on sale now!

We’re honored to welcome Grammy-nominated Senegalese kora master  to Portland for a deeply moving evening of sacred musi...
05/20/2026

We’re honored to welcome Grammy-nominated Senegalese kora master to Portland for a deeply moving evening of sacred music and prayer at !

Rooted in the rich musical traditions of West Africa while infused with soulful melodies and meditative rhythms, Youssoupha’s music creates an immersive experience of reverence, healing, and collective presence.

Through the transcendent sounds of the kora, expressive vocals, and expansive sonic landscapes, this evening invites us to slow down, listen, and gather in community.

The night will open with a devotional performance by Portland vocalist and sound practitioner .

🗓️ Friday, June 5, 2026
📍
🌲 Portland, Oregon

🚪 Doors: 7:00 PM
🎶 Kat Macmillan: 7:30 PM
🎶 Youssoupha Sidibe: 8:30 PM

🎟️ Tickets on sale now!

May is arriving in full bloom across Cascadia. Camas flowers are opening. Dandelions push through sidewalk cracks. Fir t...
05/07/2026

May is arriving in full bloom across Cascadia. Camas flowers are opening. Dandelions push through sidewalk cracks. Fir tips brighten the forests in soft green. Rhododendrons, dogwoods, nettles, lupines, hawthorn, salmonberry, and Oregon grape flowers are all beginning their seasonal return.

🌿 Everywhere we look, the land is moving toward abundance. And yet many people are carrying a very different feeling internally.

Gas prices are high. Food is expensive. Rent continues to rise. So many of us are moving through daily life with an underlying sense of pressure, stress, and scarcity. The systems surrounding modern life often leave people feeling trapped, exhausted, and disconnected from what actually nourishes us. It is important to name that reality honestly. But it is also important to remember that it is not the only reality. 
 
🌿 In moments like this, it becomes even more important to ask: What truly helps us feel resourced?

Not just financially, but emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. What helps us remember there is still beauty worth protecting? What helps us feel rooted instead of depleted? For us, the answer keeps returning to the same places: land, culture, creativity, and community.

Nature has so much to offer when we slow down enough to notice. Food and medicine are blooming all around us. The Earth continues creating abundance through relationship, reciprocity, and seasonal cycles. 

🌿 There is something deeply regulating about remembering that resources do not only come through money, productivity, or extraction.

Putting our hands in the soil. Sharing meals. Making music. Sitting around fires. Dancing. Learning new skills. Supporting local artists. Gathering with people who remind us we are not alone. These things do not erase the difficulty of this moment, but they help us stay connected to what is life giving inside of it.

There is a way to honor the very real impact of financial pressure while also remembering that scarcity is not the whole truth of what is happening around us.

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🌀 Uywanakuy Yaku Mama 🌀A 3-day gathering hosted by  June 10-13, bringing together Indigenous Andean-Amazonian lineage ke...
04/29/2026

🌀 Uywanakuy Yaku Mama 🌀

A 3-day gathering hosted by June 10-13, bringing together Indigenous Andean-Amazonian lineage keepers, artists, local elders & practitioners of permaculture, agroforestry, and syntropic agriculture to explore our relationship to the water and our watersheds.

~ Uywanakuy (wee-wah-nah-koo-ee): mutually upraising
~ Yaku Mama (yah-koo ma-ma): mother water

This is the second year of a multidisciplinary artistic and cultural initiative aimed at bringing people into deeper relationships with place (and each other).

We will weave together place-based ecological knowledge & forestry skills with key ancestral and cultural arts for strengthening our community alliances and tending to all manner of life-sustaining relationships.

🌀 HIGHLIGHTS:
✸ Ethics of place-based stewardship
✸ Traditional songs, dances, stories & seeds
✸ Lessons for tending water, fire, soil, and culture
✸ Frameworks and skills from Social Forestry & Permaculture
✸ Traditional fermentation with corn, medicinal plants, & flowers
✸ Learning resilient food ways and local plant relationships
✸ Tools for council, intercultural diplomacy & peacemaking
✸ Watershed pilgrimage

All proceeds support the development of place-based education, local food resilience, and ecological & cultural restoration in both the Andean-Amazonian & Cascadian foothills.

🔗 For more information or to reserve your seat, visit ’s link in bio

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