for National Bioneers Conference - October 20-22, 2017

National Bioneers Conference - October 20-22, 2017

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9:00am

Reclaiming Indigenous Worldviews: Implementing the Rights of Nature in the Bay Area and Beyond McNears Beach ParkCorrina Gould • Dean Hoaglin • Sage LaPena • Vincent Medina • Pennie Opal Plant • Edward Willie

TBA

Opening Talks by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Kenny Ausubel • Nina Simons Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Deb Lane • Afia Walking Tree Opening Ceremony by Dean Hoaglin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Dean Hoaglin Performance by Dallas Goldtooth Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Dallas Goldtooth Traction: The Clean Energy Revolution Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Kenny Ausubel • Thomas Van Dyck Youth Leadership Keynote Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Karina Gonzales We the People: Workers Rising for Fair Wages Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Saru Jayaraman • Nina Simons Radical Inclusion: Cities, Technology and the Power of Inclusive Thinking Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Victor Pineda • James Thurston We Are Not Alone: What Animals Think and Feel Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Joshua Fouts • Carl Safina Lessons from the Forest: How Trees Communicate and Help Each Other Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Suzanne Simard

2:45pm

Digital Inclusivity and Urban Resilience in the Global South To Be AnnouncedVictor Pineda • James Thurston Mobilizing Design, Technology & Science Communities To Be AnnouncedAdrienne Alvord • Emily Jacobi • Deborah Moore • Raphael Sperry International Agro-Ecology: Restoring Ecosystems and Local Economies To Be AnnouncedMiguel Altieri • Arty Mangan • Florence Reed Soil for Life | Youth leadership Youth Unity CenterEarth Guardians Rights of Nature: Codifying Indigenous Worldviews into Law to Protect Biodiversity | Indigenous Forum To Be AnnouncedKandi Mossett • Kealoha • Tom Goldtooth • Leila Salazar-Lopez • Tony Skrelunas • Maui Solomon Radical Organizing: Successful Strategies to Transform Institutions and Systems To Be AnnouncedSaru Jayaraman • Sonali Balajee • Billy Fleming • Taj James Restorative Justice in Action: Toward a Restorative Society To Be AnnouncedRose Elizondo • Garry Malachi Scott Working With Difference: Practices for Cultivating Change To Be AnnouncedMohamad Chakaki • Samara Gaev • Ginny McGinn Language But No Words | Council Council CircleKate Lipkis • Irasha Pearl Talifero Earth Connection Herb Walk with Kami McBride To Be AnnouncedKami McBride What Humans Need to Learn from the Natural World To Be AnnouncedCarl Safina • Suzanne Simard

4:30pm

Culinary Wellness Concert | Youth Leadership Youth Unity CenterDJ Cavem • Alkemia Earth Street Farms: Growing Food and Jobs in the City To Be AnnouncedMichael Ableman Women Moving Money: The Leading Role of Women in Socially Responsible Money Management To Be AnnouncedCatherine Chen • Ellen Dorsey • Nancy Pfund Diversifying the Digital World To Be AnnouncedMariana Ruiz Firmat Making the Invisible Visible: Race, Environment and Embodied Knowing To Be AnnouncedJeanine Canty • Ramon Parish Fighting Racism in School | Indigenous Forum Indigenous ForumDallas Goldtooth • Dahkota Brown • Chiitaanibah Johnson • Jayden Lim Storytelling: Instructions for Now from Our Ancestors To Be AnnouncedSunny Dooley • Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Rising Up: Latinos Building Political Power In the Post-Trump Era To Be AnnouncedJacqueline Martinez Garcel • Guillermo Mayer • Ben Monterroso Looking Backward, Living Forward | Council Council CircleKate Lipkis • Irasha Pearl Talifero

7:00pm

Call of the Forest-The Forgotten Wisdom Of Trees | Film To Be Announced

8:45pm

Evolution of Organic | Film TBAMark Kitchell

9:10pm

CAROLINE CASEY Performance | Bodhisattva Coyote's Alchemical Aikido Guide to Our Dangerous Beautiful Assignment TBACaroline Casey

TBA

Welcome by Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons and Joshua Fouts Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Kenny Ausubel • Joshua Fouts • Nina Simons A performance by Oakland’s own incomparably dynamic and uplifting Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Deb Lane • Afia Walking Tree SECOND ANNUAL BIOMIMICRY GLOBAL DESIGN CHALLENGE "RAY OF HOPE" PRIZE Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA) The Fight for a Free, Fair and Open Internet Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Cory Doctorow • Joshua Fouts Democracy Now!: Covering the Movements Changing America Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Kenny Ausubel • Amy Goodman Youth Leadership Keynote Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Naelyn Pike • Alexis Bunten A New "We The People" For a Sustainable Future Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Heather McGhee • Nina Simons Beyond the Anthropo-Scene Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Jeremy Narby • J.P. Harpignies

2:45pm

The Clean Money Revolution To Be AnnouncedKevin Bayuk • Katherine Collins • Vince Siciliano • Joel Solomon How Young Entrepreneurs Can Help Lead Social Change | Youth Leadership Youth Unity CenteraManda Greene • Kelly Elizabeth Ortega • Trang Tran What Value Emotions? Toward Human, Social & Political Healing To Be AnnouncedArlie Russell Hochschild • Karla McLaren • Ayana Young Walking Transformation: The World We Want, and How to Walk There To Be AnnouncedRussell Munsell • Suki Munsell Environmental Literacy for All To Be AnnouncedCarl Anthony • Juanita Chan • Jose Flores • M. Paloma Pavel • Raquel Pinderhughes • Craig Strang Restoration Agriculture with Permaculture and Biomimicry To Be AnnouncedMark Shepard Fighting for the Pillars of Democracy: Independent Media and an Open Internet To Be AnnouncedCory Doctorow • Joshua Fouts • Amy Goodman • Danny O'Brien Genocide and Survivance: Calling for Truth and Reconciliation in California | Indigenous Forum Indigenous ForumLoren Bommelyn • Corrina Gould • Marshall McKay • Vincent Medina • Cara Romero Justice is What Love Looks Like in Public | Council Council CircleKate Lipkis • Irasha Pearl Talifero Living Room Conversations: Using Open-Minded Dialogue to Transform Our World To Be AnnouncedJoan Blades Ayahuasca in the 21st Century To Be AnnouncedJeremy Narby • J.P. Harpignies • Rachel Harris • Sitaramaya Sita Leading with Nature’s Guidance: Finding Insight and Clarity in Nature To Be AnnouncedPolly Howells • Trebbe Johnson

4:30pm

Narrative Healing: Restoring the World Through Storytelling | Indigenous Forum Indigenous ForumCindi Alvitre • Calvin Hedrick • Dean Hoaglin • L Frank Manriquez • Cara Romero Art, Politics, Spirit: Braided Activism for Culture Shift To Be AnnouncedLulani Arquette • Arlene Goldbard • Rosa Gonzalez • Cynthia Tom The Peace of Wild Things | Council Council CircleKate Lipkis • Irasha Pearl Talifero Poetry Slam—Words Matter | Youth Leadership Youth Unity CenterXiuhtezcatl Martinez The New Laboratories of Democracy - Building a Progressive Agenda beyond the Trump Era To Be AnnouncedTed Howard • Repa Mekha • Patricia Farrar Rivas Breakthroughs in Global Regenerative Design: Implementing Solutions for the Earth and People To Be AnnouncedErin English • Joel Glanzberg Embodied Restoration: Rebalancing the Sacred Masculine and Feminine To Be AnnouncedClare Dubois From Plunder to Restoration: Re-Designing the Human-Ocean Relationship To Be AnnouncedTeo Grossman • Marah Hardt • Bren Smith Finding The Lost City of the Monkey God To Be AnnouncedBill Benenson • Steve Elkins • Douglas Preston A Truly Inclusive, Women-Led Movement: What’s Needed Next? To Be AnnouncedAnneke Campbell • Kate Kendell • Alnoor Ladha • Betsy McKinney • Lateefah Simon

6:30pm

Seed Exchange To Be Announced

7:00pm

Curse of the Monkey God | Film TBABill Benenson

7:30pm

Bioneers Awards Dinner TBAKenny Ausubel • Joshua Fouts • Nina Simons

8:45pm

Searching for Gold Spot -The Wild After Wildfire | Film To Be AnnouncedMaya Khosla

9:30pm

F R E E (a film about the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company) To Be AnnouncedSarah Crowell • Suzanne LaFetra • Sara Needham Dance Party To Be AnnouncedEve Bradford • Isis Indriya

TBA

Welcome by Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons and Joshua Fouts Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Kenny Ausubel • Joshua Fouts • Nina Simons Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Deb Lane • Afia Walking Tree Performance by Earth Guardians Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Earth Guardians • Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Place of Power: Ecosystem-Based Management & Reconciliation in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Jody Holmes • Nina Simons Truth to Power: Taking on Coal & Nuclear Domination Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Kenny Ausubel • Mariel Nanasi Carbon Farming Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Calla Rose Ostrander • John Wick Cultural Resilience to Strengthen Our Communities and Defend the Earth Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)Kandi Mossett • Cara Romero

1:15pm

Cultivating Women's Leadership (CWL) Gathering Women's Leadership TentNina Simons Cultivating Women's Leadership (CWL) Lunchtime Gathering on Sunday Women's Leadership TentNina Simons

2:45pm

Changing the Landscape of Power: Clean Energy and Democracy To Be AnnouncedThomas Van Dyck • Mariel Nanasi • Ira Ehrenpreis • Sarah Shanley Hope • Marco Krapels Building Large-Scale Land Conservation and Sustainable Development Coalitions To Be AnnouncedJody Holmes • Deon Ben • Henry Izumizaki • Jason Mark Revolutionizing Education: How to Cultivate Social and Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, and Cultural Responsiveness in Schools To Be AnnouncedKate Lipkis • Laura Weaver Cities, States, Regions and Civil Society Leading on Climate Change To Be AnnouncedAmanda Brown-Stevens • Teo Grossman • Alexa Kleysteuber • Andy Lipkis Pacific Connections: Indigenous Approaches to Climate Change from Tanax Amixˆ to Aotearoa | Indigenous Forum Indigenous ForumAlexis Bunten • Sven Haakanson, Jr. • Ilarion Merculieff • Maui Solomon • Kapuna M. Kalani Souza It Takes Roots to Build Resistance: Effective Movement Building in Action To Be AnnouncedKandi Mossett • Angela Adrar • Dawn Phillips • Cindy Wiesner Reclaiming Belonging: Is Resistance Enough? To Be AnnouncedHeather McGhee • Connie Heller • john a. powell • Jonathan Smucker Living in a New Way | Council Council CircleIrasha Pearl Talifero Relational Mindfulness for Agents of Change To Be AnnouncedDeborah Eden Tull Open Mic | Youth Leadership Youth Unity Center

4:30pm

SPECIAL INDIGENEITY PERFORMANCE: The Story of Everything by Kealoha To Be AnnouncedKealoha Women and Regenerative Design in Challenging Times To Be AnnouncedStarhawk • Marisha Auerbach • Maya Blow • Delia Carroll • Jasmine Fuego • Wanda Stewart • Karen Taylor • Pandora Thomas Health, Justice, Community, Environment To Be AnnouncedTed Howard • Rupa Marya • Deborah Payne • Barbara Sattler White Women Wake Up: Confronting Inner and Outer Racism and Patriarchy To Be AnnouncedMia Birdsong • Allison Cook • Natalie Foster • Courtney Martin Leading from the Emerging Future: Uniting Systems Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Presence To Be AnnouncedRene Henery • Prajna Horn • Shilpa Jain • Joanna Macy Closure and Reflection | Youth Leadership Youth Unity CenterErnesto Reyes

10:00am

Carbon Farming Breakthroughs - Building Soil to Radically Mitigate Climate Disruption Stemple Creek RanchCalla Rose Ostrander • John Wick • Puja Batra • Rebecca Burgess • Janaki Jagannath • Paul Muller • Loren Poncia • Mark Shepard • Whendee Silver