Indigenous Celebration Day
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Community Engagement
In the Spotlight: Community Health Workers
Over the course of the last 4 months, the Community Health Workers have been hard at work, connecting with people within the Spanish speaking community, assessing the immediate, and long-term needs, and gaining a deeper understanding of how to foster mental, emotional, and physical health within the Latinx community on Lopez. In case you missed
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ALIGN: Community Needs Assessment
Are you neurodivergent or have a disability? ALIGN (Advocates of Lopez Island Gathering for Neurodiversity) are gathering information about your needs and the best way to support them! Take this 5- minute survey to let them know how they can best help you. ¿Eres neurodivergente o tienes una discapacidad? ¡ALIGN (Advocates of Lopez Island Gathering
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Community Ceremony
Join us in a community ceremony to honor the life and leadership of Tokitae. Tokitae, (1964/1967 – August 18, 2023) was a captive female orca whale from the southern resident orca community. She had been in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium in the United States since September 24, 1970. Come listen to and learn from
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Día de los Muertos
Join Lopez Island Latinx leaders for the 2nd annual Day of the Dead Celebration! Come learn about and share in the rich traditions of Day of the Dead. Dress like Katrina and compete for a prize, create a personal altar, purchase traditional foods and artifacts, and so much more! It will be a fun filled
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Free Community Concert!
Join us for this beautiful opportunity to be serenaded by Peter Ali, Native American Flautist, for FREE. Saturday, May 6th, from 5:00-6:00PM at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.
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Indigenous Flute Carving Class
Register your kids today for this amazing opportunity! Youth will learn to carve and play their very own indigenous flute with Peter Ali, Native American Flautist. Workshop will be open to youth, 10 years and older and will be held indoors at the Lopez Island Center for Community and the Arts. Then, stick around for
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CPR in Spanish
“Toward the end of last year, a friend of ours had to call the ambulance,” says Karina E. Cerda Aguirre, Bilingual Youth Programs Coordinator and Community Supports Associate at LIFRC. “They ended up OK, but it got the whole Spanish speaking community talking about what we might do in the case of a real emergency.”
Día de los Muertos
Spanish speaking leaders from Voices and Visions taught, shared, and celebrated one of their favorite traditions with the Lopez community last week: Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). From the outside this ancient tradition, reaching as far back as the Aztecs, can seem a tad macabre. We aren’t accustomed to talking about and
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