Spring Street International School invites you to attend our 2022 Speaker Series - Please enter your email address below to receive the zoom link prior to each talk!
Upcoming Talks:

Tuesday, March 15th @ 6pm
Joe Van Eeckhout, Spring Street class of 2006
Talk: My journey as a cinematographer & filmmaker
Website: http://www.joevaneeckhout.com 
Article: https://www.elkandhammer.com/the-story/an-explorer-of-place-and-purpose-joe-van-eeckhout

Thursday, March 31st @ 6pm
Guisepi "Joe" Spadafora, Spring Street class of 2001
Talk: The Gift Economy - Rethinking Value
5-minute video to watch prior to talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mv2xS5TUas 
Website: http://www.freeteaparty.org 
Articles: http://www.freeteaparty.org/articles.html 

Thursday, April 7th @ 6pm
Heather Manley, Social Worker at Snohomish County Public Defender Association
Talk: Restorative justice and the juvenile court system
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-manley-lmsw-13a4a310 

Thursday, April 14th @ 6pm
Nikolaj Lasbo, Spring Street class of 2006
Talk: Conservation communications on fire management, forest health & Indigenous-led conservation.
Website: https://www.washingtonnature.org/ourteam 

Thursday, April 21st @ 6pm
Eric Kessler, local photographer and former Spring Street faculty
Talk: Update on the Elwha River Restoration
Website: https://ekessler.smugmug.com/

If you can't attend the talk, but would like to access the recording, please email eporten@springstreet.org
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Tuesday, March 15th @ 6pm Joe Van Eeckhout, Spring Street class on 2006. Please enter your email address below to RSVP for this talk and we will send you a zoom link. Speaker bio below.                                                                              
Tuesday, March 15th @ 6pm.
Joe is a documentary cinematographer, filmmaker, and photographer. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he is currently based between Salt Lake City and New York.

Raised between Wyoming, Washington, and Alaska, the American West is where he draws most of his inspiration. After spending nearly a decade on the east coast of the USA and three years based in East Africa, he returned to the West. Joe seeks to tell impactful, character-driven stories about rural America and the issues faced by it’s communities.

Joe has been behind the camera for multiple documentary films and recently he has worked on projects for Chums, Hulu, HBO Documentaries, Nat Geo Docs, The New York Times, VICE, and more.

Joe's experience spans from branded production to non-fiction television, to documentary news and film. He has worked both domestically and internationally, recently working abroad in India, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia.
Joe Van Eeckhout
Thursday, March 31st @ 6pm Guisepi "Joe" Spadafora, Spring Street class of 2001. Talk: The Gift Economy - Rethinking Value. Please enter your email address below to RSVP for this free event and we will send you a zoom link prior to this talk. Speaker bio below.
Thursday, March 31st @ 6pm.
The Gift Economy: Rethinking Value
 
What do dumpster diving, giving away free tea, and traveling in an old school bus all have in common? They’re all ways to get basic needs met through building relationships. Join us as we discuss how building relationships, both with people as well as the resources we use and consume, add concrete value to our lives.

Guisepi Spadafora traveled the country for more than a decade with Edna Lu, the Free Tea Bus offering free tea and conversation as a way to cultivate community through non-monetary interactions. As a Spring Street graduate (and valedictorian of the class of 2001), he was inspired by Ted and Peg and the ethos of the school to travel and be of service.
Guisepi Spadafora
Thursday, April 7th @ 6pm Heather Manley, Social Worker at Snohomish County Public Defender Association. Talk: Restorative justice and the juvenile court system. More information coming! Please enter your email address below to RSVP for this free event and we will send you a zoom link prior to this talk.  
Thursday, April 14th @ 6pm Nikolaj Lasbo, SSIS class of 2006. Talk: Conservation communications on fire management, forest health and Indigenous-led conservation. Please enter your email address below to RSVP for this free event and we will send you a zoom link prior to this talk.  
Thursday, April 21st @ 6pm Eric Kessler, local photographer and past Spring Street faculty member. Talk: Update on the Elwha River Restoration. Please enter your email address below to RSVP for this free event and we will send you a zoom link prior to this talk. More info below.
Thursday, April 21st @ 6pm with Eric Kessler.
Update on the Elwha River Restoration

In September 17, 2011 the first chunk of hundred year old cement was removed from the Elwha Dam. It was just one significant benchmark in the lengthy and elaborate process of restoring the Elwha River back to a pristine state. Days after the river ran free again anadromous fish that had called the river their home since the end of the last ice age began repopulating the watershed.

This presentation offers a broad overview and update of the ecological, cultural, and political issues surrounding the largest project of its kind to date in the U.S. An amazing collage of circumstances, spanning four presidential administrations and 18 Congressional appropriations bills, came together allowing this landmark event to happen. The restoration has played out on multiple levels.  Re-establishing the salmon runs and renewing the flow of nutrients to streams and forests have benefitted the Elwha ecosystem. Redressing the treaty obligations between the state and federal governments and about 40 tribes around Puget Sound have benefitted the Lower Elwha's Klallam people. Rectifying Washington State’s decades-long neglect of fish passage regulations and environmental protection on the Elwha have restored the trust of citizens. Each of these threads has a fascinating story, but the big picture—the magnitude of what’s happening on the river and all the levels on which wrongs are being corrected—is even more powerful. Moreover, the Elwha represents a template for other dam river removals and restoration efforts around the country.

Eric studied the natural history of the Olympic Peninsula at The Evergreen State College. He went on to guide interpretive natural history hiking tours in the Olympic National Park for the past 27 years. He became fascinated with the Elwha River and the restoration process and applied his photographer’s eye and writing skills to documenting the dams and the river restoration. Eric was a founding faculty of the Spring Street School in 1995. He was the first science teacher and went on to help initiate and run the signature field studies and travel component of the school. He has taken SSIS students to the Elwha River to interpret the river both before and after the dam removal.

Eric has a parallel career as a conservation and travel photographer with assignments world wide on five continents. His work has been published in numerous magazines and books, along with many commercial catalogs and websites. His conservation work has been used by local, national, and international organizations.
Eric Kessler
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