SeaFeasting from Home, Part II
As we shared last month, we’re all getting creative with opportunities to SeaFEAST at home during Governor Inslee’s Stay at Home order. We have been utterly impressed by the community resilience throughout the region and hope our partners and attendees from all over the Pacific Northwest are taking measures to stay safe during this time. While we’ve all got lots of unknowns, here’s what we do know: SeaFeast’s friends and partners are overflowing with creativity and doing their darndest to keep people eating fish, keep kids learning, offering family entertainment, and much more.
We’ve compiled the best of SeaFeast weekend to enjoy at home (minus bringing food straight to your door, sorry!). Throughout the weekend, we celebrate our waterfront and its industries with many local vendors, the Explore Some More education and outreach booths, live music, fishing vessel tours, and the list goes on! Here are some resources to celebrate and learn the wonders of the waterfront from home.
Explore Some More
The Salmon Sisters created coloring pages to do with your family (or on your own).
The Ocean Conservancy, which hosts an Explore Some More booth each year, published a post on their blog titled “Five Videos to Enjoy Social Distancing.”
This week is Puget Sound Fish Week at Seattle Aquarium!
SeaDoc Society: Salish Sea! We posted this one on our Facebook not too long ago and loved seeing the depths of our local waters. How many species can you spot?
Become a student at the School of Salmon which challenges kids across the country to have a voice and learn about the last natural wild salmon habitat on earth. Join Mark Titus, creator of The Breach and The Wild, and his team for some fun learning!
The Maritime Arts
We love poetry and songs inspired by life at sea. Here’s Tele from Nerka Sea Frozen Salmon reading FisherPoetry by friend Holly Hughes. For more FisherPoets content, check out In The Tote - an online archive of some of our favorite FisherPoetry!
More of our favorite content is available for listening with our Dive In project, where local waterfront folks tell a few salty stories. And, Trident Seafoods’ Catching a Deckload of Dreams podcast is available for listening. Warning: This is more than just a business biography - the series is “a tale of true grit, salt air, and danger.” In the fall, some of our Dive In stories aired on KZAX 94.9 LP FM, and they are still streaming! Listen online here.
Each year, fun and talented bands bring down the house in Zuanich Point Park. Enjoy last year’s line-up with links to their pages for some online, at-home listening!
Children of the Setting Sun Productions are going live three times a week on their Facebook. This multi-media, film, and theater arts production company specializing in Coast Salish storytelling has shared some of their projects with us for our water-inspired film night at the Pickford Film Center. Follow both these orgs for more learning and video engagement!
Finally, our community is also full of artists, and the Whatcom Arts Project is a new collaborative resource of fresh, unique content to share with the whole family. Check out the schedule!
We know it’s not the same as gathering together, but we hope these tidbits help just a bit as we all commit to staying home!
