Our Mission
We gather community to create Lake-facing culture through participatory art. We proclaim our love & grief for this collapsing ecosystem. We make the movement to save Great Salt Lake beautiful & irresistible.
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, dance, and song.
2. Caring through Collapse: We open our hearts to the Lake and to our neighbors who are on the frontlines of this crisis, both human and beyond-human. We commit to caring for each other through collapse.
3. Presence: We bear witness through calm, steady attention. We practice deep listening to the Lake and to each other.
4. Rematriation: We center and follow Indigenous leadership in our movement community. We reckon with the ongoing harms of settler colonialism and stand in solidarity with Indigenous liberation efforts.
5. Justice at the Center: Environmental justice, multispecies justice, and disability justice guide our work.
6. 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 thrive & flourish.
7. Humility: We acknowledge the ancient sentience and sacredness of this ecosystem and the Ute, Shoshone, Goshute, and Pauite Peoples who have always been stewards of this place. We work to honor future generations, both human and beyond-human.