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National Bioneers Conference - October 21-23, 2016
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Thursday
, October 20
Showcase Theater
8:30pm •
Special Advance Film Screening of Before the Flood
TBA
9:00am •
Pre-Conference Traditional Ecological Knowledge Intensive Dreaming Indigenous: Looking to Our Original Instructions for Climate Solutions
Friday
, October 21
Community of Mentors
2:45pm •
Community of Mentors
4:30pm •
Community of Mentors
Council Circle
2:45pm •
Listening for the Heart of the Matter: Engaging Council and Other Dialogic Practices for Social Change and Healing | Council
4:30pm •
Spirituality & Social Justice: Cross-Cultural Protocols for Engaging Ritual & Ceremony | Council
Exhibit Hall
TBA •
Singing Tree Interactive Mural Project
1:15pm •
Networking | Permaculture: Mapping the Human Ecosystem
6:15pm •
Networking | Bioregional Networking
9:10pm •
Caroline Casey presents: Flora Fauna 2016: The Only News to Trust is the Mythic News
Hands On Workshop Space
2:45pm •
A Practical Solar Cooking Workshop
Indigenous Forum
2:45pm •
Indigenous Rising: Solutions to the Climate Crisis | Indigenous Forum
4:30pm •
Native Foods and Grassroots Efforts | Indigenous Forum
Larkspur Room
2:45pm •
How to Apply Biomimicry Locally to Address Global Problems: a hands-on workshop
4:30pm •
The Science Behind Trauma and the Art of Healing Relationships
Manzanita Room
2:45pm •
No Time for Half Measures: Upending Destructive Paradigms
4:30pm •
Mass Movements: Rising to Address Economic Inequality
Re-Inventing Leadership Tent
2:45pm •
Cultivating Women’s Leadership (CWL): A Sampler and Reunion
4:30pm •
Engaging Leadership: From Insight to Impact
Santa Rosa Room
2:45pm •
Latinas Leading Change for Climate Justice and Solutions
4:30pm •
Philanthropy: Empowering Deeper Change
Sausalito Room
2:45pm •
Visual Arts and Social Action
4:30pm •
Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change
Showcase Theater
2:45pm •
Driving a Revolution from the Municipal Grassroots: How You Can Stop Unwanted Corporate Projects by Adopting a Bill of Rights for Nature and Your Community
4:30pm •
Permaculture and Green Jobs
7:00pm •
Aina: That Which Feeds Us | Film
7:00pm •
We the People 2.0 | Film
7:00pm •
Two short films featuring mural artist Louis Masai | Film
7:00pm •
SEED: The Untold Story | Film
Sun Stage
1:15pm •
Singer/Songwriter Austin Willacy
1:35pm •
Sammay Dizon – Kreator.Educator.Artivist.Producer
1:50pm •
CelloJoe- Classical/Hip-Hop fusion with cello, beatbox and more
2:45pm •
Earth Connection Herb Walk
Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
8:48am •
Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree
9:00am •
Opening Talks by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
9:01am •
Opening Ceremony
9:48am •
Maps, Magic and Medicine in the Rainforest
10:14am •
The Role of Spiritual Practice in Social Justice Work
11:04am •
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez, youth activist hip-hop duo extraordinaire
11:15am •
Deepening Indigenous Women's Networks: Embodiment, Healing and Resilience
11:40am •
Youth Leadership
11:51am •
Occupy the Law: The Movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature
12:15pm •
Coconut: A New Performance Piece Of A Mystical Journey Into A Woman's Body
2:45pm •
Making Peace with Earth by Protecting Biodiversity - With Synchronicity Earth
4:30pm •
Gender, Race, Class and Violence: What’s Intersectionality Got to Do with it?
World Café
2:45pm •
Open Space. We Are Wiser Together: Co-Creating Through Collaboration, Creativity and Celebration
4:30pm •
Open Space. We Are Wiser Together: Co-Creating Through Collaboration, Creativity and Celebration
Youth Unity Center
TBA •
Media Center with Synergia Learning Ventures and Marin Community Media Center
2:45pm •
Community Mandala
2:45pm •
Youth Leadership. HipHopForChange
4:30pm •
Youth Leadership. Open Mic Hosted by Earth Guardians
Saturday
, October 22
Community of Mentors
2:45pm •
Community of Mentors
4:30pm •
Community of Mentors
Council Circle
2:45pm •
Dancing in the Ashes: Radical Grieving for Hard Times | Council
4:30pm •
Act Now, Before It Is Too Late: Messages from Indigenous Elders | Council
Embassy Suites Hotel
7:30pm •
Bioneers Awards Dinner
Exhibit Hall
TBA •
Singing Tree Interactive Mural Project
1:15pm •
Networking | Educators for the Future
6:15pm •
Networking | Open Space Networking
6:30pm •
Seed Exchange
9:30pm •
Saturday Night Dance Party
9:30pm •
Dance Party
Family Fair
2:45pm •
Nature/Biomimicry Walk
Hands On Workshop Space
2:45pm •
RDI Permaculture: An Experiential Permaculture Practicum with Penny Livingston-Stark
Indigenous Forum
2:45pm •
The Art of Intergenerational Native Activism | Indigenous Forum
4:30pm •
Aboriginal Truth and Reconciliation | Indigenous Forum
Larkspur Room
2:45pm •
Multicultural Women Explore Social and Ecological Healing
4:30pm •
Biomimicry Education
Manzanita Room
2:45pm •
What Would a Biomimetic Food System Look Like?
4:30pm •
Elevating the Standing of Women
Re-Inventing Leadership Tent
2:45pm •
Women and Social Permaculture
4:30pm •
Revolutionary Medicine: Awaken the Healer
Santa Rosa Room
2:45pm •
Digging In and Shouting Out: Journalism in the 21st Century
4:30pm •
Flexing Our Power: Creating an Economy For Life
Sausalito Room
2:45pm •
The Perils and Promise of Edge Technologies
4:30pm •
Leveraging Business for Good
Showcase Theater
2:45pm •
Reshaping Our Relationship to the Ocean
4:30pm •
Carbon, Climate, Food and Fiber
7:00pm •
Catching the Sun | Film
7:00pm •
The Creeping Garden | Film
8:30pm •
Biomimicry | Film
Sun Stage
1:00pm •
Trashion Show
2:00pm •
Thrive Choir-Oakland based Community Choir
4:30pm •
Dynamic Vitality: Body/Mind Transformation Training
6:15pm •
One Billion Rising Drum-Dance Activation Circle
Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
9:00am •
Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree
9:10am •
Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
9:34am •
The Ultimate Symbiosis: Biomimicry as a Cooperative Inquiry
10:03am •
Biomimcry Global Design Challenge Award
10:18am •
The Least Deadly Catch: Ocean Farming in the Climate Change Era
11:08am •
Climbing PoeTree
11:36am •
What Are We Fighting For?
12:01pm •
Youth Leadership
12:11pm •
What Winning the Climate Change Battle Looks Like
2:45pm •
The Day After Tomorrow: A Post-Paris/Pre-Election Climate Summit
4:30pm •
Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity
World Café
4:30pm •
World Café. Permaculture Meetup: Cross Pollination, Collaboration and Integration
Youth Art Space
2:45pm •
Save the Bees Art-Making Workshop with Louis Masai
Youth Unity Center
TBA •
Media Center with Synergia Learning Ventures and Marin Community Media Center
10:30am •
Youth of Color Caucus
2:45pm •
Liberation in Action: Radical Practices in Dissolving Domination, Disconnection, and Apathy
4:30pm •
Youth Leadership. Poetry Slam
Sunday
, October 23
Community of Mentors
2:45pm •
Community of Mentors
Council Circle
2:45pm •
Life in the Balance – Restoring the Relationship between the Sacred Masculine & Sacred Feminine | Council
Exhibit Hall
TBA •
Singing Tree Interactive Mural Project
2:45pm •
Generating New Visions through ARTivism
Hands On Workshop Space
2:45pm •
Ecological Design Principles: Build a Teeny Tiny House!
Indigenous Forum
2:45pm •
Working Toward Respectful Collaborations: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Educational Institutions | Indigenous Forum
4:30pm •
Traditional to Digital: Our Indigenous Youth | Indigenous Forum
Larkspur Room
2:45pm •
Animal Consciousness and Communication and Human Potential
4:30pm •
Contemporary Psychedelic Subcultures
Manzanita Room
1:15pm •
Networking | Ethical Business & Investing: People, Planet, Profit
4:30pm •
Biomimicry for Social Innovation
Re-Inventing Leadership Tent
2:45pm •
Community Forum: Gender Equity and Reconciliation
Santa Rosa Room
2:45pm •
Health, Medicine, Race and Environmental Justice
Sausalito Room
2:45pm •
Climate Change: Practical and Accessable Strategies for Ecological and Community Resilience
4:30pm •
Changing the Story: Media, Technology and New Generational Waves of Storytelling
Showcase Theater
2:45pm •
Scaling Up: Building a Green and Just Economy
4:30pm •
Women, Earth and Culture Change: A Systems Inquiry
Sun Stage
1:15pm •
Crescent Moon Theater
1:35pm •
Deezbaa O’Hare, Wa Ama & the Lion Truth, and Patricia Juarez / Chicueyi-Coatl- Performance Artist inspired by Indigenous Teachings & Activism
2:00pm •
Lydia Violet
2:45pm •
Medicines and Wild Edibles: Herbwalk
Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
9:00am •
Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree
9:15am •
Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
9:25am •
Standing Rock Update
9:35am •
Transforming Patriarchy: From Gender Oppression to Beloved Community
10:00am •
Optimizing the Energy Transition
10:25am •
Youth Leadership
10:31am •
Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company
11:09am •
Creating An Equitable Environmental Movement
11:40am •
Making Contact: New Approaches to Cracking the Communication of Whales and Dolphins
12:04pm •
Creativity — the Antidote to Destruction
12:33pm •
Closing Performance Jam
2:45pm •
Spiritual Responses to the Great Unraveling: Guidance for the Journey Onward from Earth's Faith Traditions
World Café
4:30pm •
World Café. Calling All Progressives for an Intergenerational Collaboration for Social Change
Youth Unity Center
TBA •
Media Center with Synergia Learning Ventures and Marin Community Media Center
11:30am •
LGBTQ Alliance Talking Circle
2:45pm •
Youth Leadership: Increase the Peace Conflict Resolution Workshop
Monday
, October 24
Embassy Suites Hotel
9:00am •
Post-Conference Intensive - A Revolution of the Heart: Re-Creating Gender Relations Between Women and Men
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, October 23
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, October 24
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Family Fair
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Larkspur Room
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Re-Inventing Leadership Tent
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Sausalito Room
Showcase Theater
Sun Stage
TBA
Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
World Café
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