Saturday, October 5th from 10:30-12:30 at Hammond Pond:
 Native Milkweed Seed Collection and Seed Ball Making

and

Sunday, October 6th from 2:30-4:30 at the Mount Shasta Brewing Company:
Monarch Waystation Soundmap Film Screening and Native Milkweed Seed Planting

Join us for a Nature Walk to learn about pollinators, collect milkweed seed pods, and make them into seed balls for future planting! Then, join the us the following day (Saturday, Oct. 6) for a screening of the film Monarch Waystation Soundmap followed by Q&A with the filmmakers and a planting party where we will plant Native Milkweed creating a new Monarch Waystation.

We’re in the fly zone for the majestic and very important monarch butterflies. A monarch waystation is habitat that provides monarch butterflies with the resources they need to survive and migrate.

Monarch Waystation Soundmap is a documentary film that follows Alejandro Botijo Madrid (Alex Wand) and friends as they cycle the Western monarch butterfly’s migration route, playing music and planting pollinator waystations along the way. The work blends conservation, adventure, field recording, and music to put forth a model for multispecies collaboration between humans and threatened creatures such as the Monarch butterfly.

Everyone can join in! Children should be accompanied by adults at both events. The walk to collect milkweed is easy. Both events are free for everyone. Please register for this event so we can plan supplies accordingly.

Meet the Facilitators:

Alex Wand (pictured below) founded Monarch Waystation Soundmap, a music/art initiative to plant milkweed seeds along the Western monarch’s migratory path. He is also a musician and multimedia artist interested in folk music, ecology, futurism, social practice art, tuning systems, field recording, and dance/multimedia collaborations.

Kyle Baker is a documentary filmmaker and audio producer who created the Monarch Waystation Soundmap Film. He is interested in the intersections of music, labor, and more-than-human worlds.

Before the events, stop by your local pub or restaurant to buy a pint for the pollinators!

Listed below are the restaurants and pubs that are donating a portion of sales from all pints sold from Sept. 27th to Sept. 30th. Not all pints are beers! Have a pint of kombucha, cider, and others to support our pollinator projects.