Our Mission
We gather community to create Lake-facing culture through participatory art. We demonstrate love for Great Salt Lake in order to make the movement beautiful and irresistible. Everyone is invited!
The life of Great Salt Lake is inseparable from our own.
We gather to bear witness. We gather to grieve. We gather to create beacons of possibility. We gather to increase our tenderness towards brine shrimp, microbialites, and winged citizens of the air. We gather to carry each other through spells of despair. We gather to revere all that is vital and alive.
Even as the active collapse of our ecosystem challenges our relationship with hope, we devote ourselves to a future shaped by human reverence, humility, reciprocity, and care. Everything we do matters. In the face of this crisis, who will we become?
Our Values
1. Creative Resistance: We facilitate demonstrations to make love and grief visible through poetry, art, and song.
2. Devotion: We turn our hearts towards the Lake and toward our neighbors who are on the frontlines of this crisis, both human and beyond-human. We commit ourselves to caring for them through collapse.
3. Presence: We bear witness through calm, steady attention.
4. Reparative Returns: We uplift Indigenous leadership and stand in solidarity with Indigenous sovereignty & liberation.
5. Sovereignty of Bodies: We seek dignity and rights for the Lake’s body and all bodies, especially Queer/Trans and Disabled bodies, so they may life, love, and flourish.
6. Geological Time: We acknowledge the ancient sentience of this ecosystem and the Ute, Shoshone, and Goshute Peoples who have always been stewards of this place. We work to protect future generations, both human and beyond-human.
7. Tenderness: We cultivate gentle regard for all life, landforms, and waterbodies.
8. We Belong to the Lake and Each Other: Belonging is inherent and cannot be earned, bought, or sold.
9. Justice at the Center: Environmental justice, multispecies justice, and disability justice guide our work.