Event Details:
Date: Thursday, Nov. 7
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Spokane Convention Center, Ballroom 300 BCD
334 W Spokane Falls Blvd, Spokane, WA 99201
Help us write the next chapter.
Join us for our annual fundraiser and help us write the next chapter as we listen to stories of the Spokane River from local artists, writers & storytellers. Their stories are our inspiration for the Spoken River event and fuel our mission to protect the river.
As a young and growing organization, we need your support. We monitor 111 miles of river from Lake CDA to the Columbia River. We use law & policy to defend clean water in our basin's rivers. We educate, collect scientific data, pick up litter, and reach out to the unhoused along the river.
Purchase your tickets today to support our programs that protect the Spokane River!
Tickets/Registration Pricing
Single Admission - $85
Table for 8 - $595
How to Sponsor: Learn more about sponsorship by downloading our sponsor flyer here. Or you may contact Katie Thompson for more information at [email protected] or at 509-464-7650.
Silent Auction/Notifications: Our silent auction offers items and experiences to enhance your enjoyment of the Spokane River. Updates, including highest bidder and outbid alerts, will be sent by text. Bids can be canceled within three minutes via your device or the provided link. Proceeds support Spokane Riverkeeper's yearly programs and services.
Attire: Business casual
Program Schedule:
5:30 PM: Commencement of Happy Hour, Silent Auction, Cocktails, and Appetizers
6:30 PM: Welcome. Silent Auction Concludes.
6:45 PM: A Year in Review by Spokane Riverkeeper
7:00 PM: Paddle Raise
7:30 PM: Guest Speakers - Marc Fryt, Greg Gordon, Heidi Lasher & Poet Laureate Mery Smith
8:00 PM: Event Concludes
Guest Speaker Bios
Marc Fryt. While serving in the US Army, Marc discovered fly fishing while backpacking and mountain climbing in the Cascades. Soon enough, those mountaineering trips turned solely into fly fishing adventures. Marc is a fly fishing guide and published fly fishing author and photographer. His work can be found in multiple journals and magazines including: The FlyFish Journal, The Drake, American Fly Fishing, The Backcountry Journal, Fly Culture, and Grays Sporting Journal. He’s currently working on a book about urban fly fishing.
Greg Gordon was born at the junction of Cherry Creek and the South Fork of the Platte River and spent much of his adult life living along the Clark Fork and Dearborn Rivers. He now lives a short walk from the confluence of Hangman Creek and the Spokane River and is a professor of environmental studies at Gonzaga University. He is the editor of Rewilding the Urban Frontier: River Conservation in the Anthropocene, https://rewildingurbanrivers.com
Heidi Lasher began floating rivers on inner tubes, gradually moving on to cheap plastic kayaks, rubber rafts, and wooden canoes. She holds masters' degrees in public administration and nonfiction writing. She spends her time writing, consulting, parenting teenagers, and scheming her next river trip. Her nonfiction essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. More of Heidi’s work can be found at www.heidilasher.com.
Mery Smith is Spokane’s 5th Poet Laureate. She is a storyteller and story holder who’s working to bring poetry into spaces we wouldn't otherwise consider poetic. Mery's work has been featured in publications around the inland northwest as well as online at Picturea of poets.com and the published anthologies: Listen To Your Mother, what she said then and what we’re saying now, and Pivot and Pause, a poetry anthology of Resilience Remembrance and Compassion. Find her on social media at merynoelsmith.
Caj Matheson is a Councilman for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, where he helps set policies for nearly 400,000 acres in Northern Idaho. He also serves as the Director of the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources, overseeing various programs related to natural resource management. Matheson represents the Tribe in multiple political and legal forums. Growing up on the reservation, he learned about the Coeur d’Alene culture and the importance of stewardship. He holds degrees in Biblical Leadership and Organizational Sciences. After 20 years in the private sector, he joined the Tribe in 2012 and became the Director of Natural Resources in 2017. He lives on the reservation with his wife of 27 years.
Buffet Menu: Your admission includes a buffet style dinner, 1 drink ticket, and an evening filled with inspiring presentations by Spokane Riverkeeper guests and staff.
Parking: Parking is available at the Spokane Convention Center, Double Tree Hotel, street parking meters & Diamond Parking Lots.
Your Support Goes a Long Way to Protecting Your River: Our work to protect the Spokane River continues as we transition to new leadership. We are a newer free-standing organization, working with law and policy to defend clean water in our basin's rivers. We educate our youth about healthy watersheds and fish. We collaborate to collect scientific data, we pick up litter, we conduct river patrols and we do outreach to the urban homeless population along the Spokane River. In doing so, you will support the operations and programs that protect and benefit the Spokane River, it's economy and the well-being of its citizens. Please donate today.
Your Keepers,
Jule Schultz, Katie Thompson, Liv Kindl, Katelyn Scott, SRK Board and the Spoken River Committee.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
