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🌿 Resilience for Appalachia: A Benefit Show & Herbal Medicine Drive for Hurricane Helene reliefHurricane Helene has offered to be a catalyst to create deeper systems of resilience and mutual aid for each other as we navigate climate change and system collapse. Our hearts are feeling the grief of folks in Appalachia facing power outages, water shortages, housing insecurity, loss of income, and other infrastructure collapse. Come join us to build your own systems of resiliency through community singing, poetry, and herbal medicine. Proceeds from this event will go directly towards supporting hurricane relief in Appalachia (more info below).
🎶 Community Song Experience featuring:
- Max Ribner
- Sara Tone
- Shireen Amini
- Ian Love Covington
- Alexa Lux
📝 Poetry, Typewriting & Altar by: Ashley Bonn
🌿 Elixirs & Herbal Medicine Drive: Reishi Strauss
Reishi Strauss is originally from Appalachia and has built her life around the herbalism knowledge that she’s learned from her teachers and community in the Asheville area. Reishi is excited to offer an Herbal Elixir Bar featuring Appalachian Reishi Root Beer & other non-alcoholic herbal drinks. Reishi is also organizing a herbal medicine drive to support physical, mental, and emotional resiliency through herbalism. The following are requested (ideally in tincture form, as there is limited water to make tea).
~ Herbs for the Nervous System: Lavender, Milky Oats, Skullcap, Lemon Balm, Chamomile, Rose, Hawthorne, etc
~ Herbs for the Immune System: Elderberry, Echinacea, Oregon Grape, Propolis, Oregano, Thyme, Garlic, Ginger, Osha, Turkey Tail, Medicinal Mushrooms, etc.
~ Herbs for Liver Support (for toxic mud & water exposure): Dandelion Root, Milk Thistle, Reishi, Oregon Grape, Bitters
💸 PROCEEDS:
80% of proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to Wild Abundance. 20% of proceeds will go to supporting the musicians & organizers. 100% of proceeds from elixirs & herbal medicine drive will go to Kearsley's Kitchen.
~ Wild Abundance: A permaculture and carpentry school currently building tiny homes for those who have been displaced
~ Kearsley's Kitchen: Delivering water, homecooked meals, and baby supplies to pregnant & new mothers who have been impacted
🎟️ TICKETING:
Tickets are offered in tiers to make this event both sustainable and accessible. No one turned away for lack of funds - if you feel called to be here, please join us, even if you cannot afford our lowest ticket.
~ $25 - Welcome. For people who are lower-income and cannot afford the higher prices.
~ $50 - Sustain. This amount makes this event sustainable and allows us to cover the costs.
~ $75 - Support. This amount is for people who can offer extra so others can pay less.
🌀 ABOUT THE FACILITATORS & ORGANIZERS:
~ Community Song Facilitator: Max Ribner
Max is on the path of “Resilient Beings," a powerful community album that creates a collective experience where the audience becomes the orchestra. Max and the accompanying artists bridge the gap between the stage and the audience by offering themselves as an anchor and providing simple melodies to sing along with. The musicians are committed to being with what’s present in the moment and thrive off of audience participation - ‘you feed us and we feed you’. The journey is co-collaborative and infused with creative improvised instrumentals.
~ Community Song Facilitator: Sara Tone
Portland based musician, educator, and activist, Sara Tone shares her love songs for the Earth as a multi-instrumentalist. Expressing herself through voice, guitar, baritone uke, kalimba, ocarina, and an assortment of percussion instruments. Her style ranges from deep heart rooted fae-soul, world-folk, with an undeniable hip-hop approach. You’ll often find her building musical expression into sonic reality through live looping, blending harmonies, beat box, and a quiver full of instruments. More than songs, there’s an intention and vibe created and held, a collective power of presence and gratitude that the this music emanates and amplifies, a prayer, a spell, a sonic stream to soak your soul.
~ Community Song Facilitator: Shireen Amini
Shireen Amini (non-binary using she/her in English, elle in Spanish) is a queer, second-generation Puerto Rican-Iranian American, Earth-loving singer-songwriter, percussionist, and song leader based on unceded Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, Grande Ronde land aka Portland, Oregon. While holding transformational space, Shireen leads infectious, soulful, and groove-based community songs, often engaging her participants in rhythm, because she believes strongly in music’s power to propel cultural revolution. She also teaches drumming, leads workshops, and facilitates grief ritual as part of her community-based music empowerment project Shireen Amini Music Medicine.
~ Community Song Facilitator & Event Organizer: Alexa Lux
Alexa Lux (she/her) is a queer animist artist & social entrepreneur descended from peoples of the waters of western Europe. She tends to the generative intersections of digital design, music, & community organization in the occupied territories of the Clackamas & Cascades peoples outside Portland, OR. Guided by principles grounded in post activism, systems sensing, & relational ecology, she utilizes a wide array of artistic & professional skills in service of creative initiatives that cultivate resilient communities and tend to the cracks of our times.
~ Event Organizer & Herablist: Reishi Strauss
Reishi Strauss is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently residing in Portland. Reishi has studied clinical herbalism, botany, ecological stewardship, and mycology through Bastyr University and the Columbine's School of Botanical Studies. Reishi owns and operates Earth & Spirit Botanicals, which is her small herbal medicine business that produces medicinal mushroom tinctures as well as Herbal Elixir Bars. She aims to heal the planet & her people with sustainably wildcrafted and regeneratively cultivated herbal & fungal medicines, featuring herbs and fungi that she either forages herself or sources from Rhythm Seed Farm, a small nonprofit seed farm located in NE Portland. Follow Reishi's work at @Earth_And_Spirit
~ Event Organizer & Poet: Ashley Bonn
Ashley Bonn is a visionary leader, community builder, and creative entrepreneur on a mission to shift culture. She has a background in sustainability, permaculture, nonprofit management, and business marketing with over a decade of experience in event production. Ashley is the founder of several businesses and organizations, including Conscious Growth, Wisdom Weaver, and Cascadia Campout. Her passion lies at the intersection of nature, music, art, and healing, weaving together the wisdom of Spirit to support collective evolution. You can follow her at @ashley.bonn
🌀 ABOUT THE VENUE:
The Historic Alberta House is intended for all and is focused on elevating voices that have struggled for many years to be heard. Their mission is to reach and engage voices from the community that have been disproportionately impacted by Oregon’s social, economic, and racial injustices. Surrounded by and intertwined with the reminders of a complex history marked by vibrancy, resiliency, and ingenuity, as well as racism, exclusion, and trauma, the doors of this historic building are open for the community to explore.
🌀 QUESTIONS?
Email Ashley Bonn at [email protected] or Reishi Strauss at [email protected]
🎨 Featured Artwork by Rose Unfolding
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
5131 NE 23rd Ave, Portland, OR 97211-5622, United States
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