SAT, DECEMBER 14: Mile 45 | Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area

A special River Session with Los Angeles Poet Society and our lead Cultural Advisor, Tina Calderon — an accomplished poet and songwriter of Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash, Yoeme, and Chicana descent. We stepped through a “poetry portal” to experience the Sepulveda River Basin through the context of poetics, the Magical, and reconnection.

With writing prompts from poets Jessica M. Wilson and Alex Petunia and musical interludes by Juan Flautista, we drew on Indigenous wisdom and language to reconnect with ourselves and nature through creative expression.