Earth Stewardship Conversations, Dinner & Concert
Join us at the start of SF Climate Week for an evening of conversation on Indigenous wisdom & living embodiment, dinner and sacred concert with the Yawanawa, local Indigenous leaders and the scientists, builders, and practitioners working to protect our ecological future.
Whether you live in a city apartment or have acres of land beneath your feet, the question is the same: how do we care for the living world around us? Not just as an environmental obligation, but as an expression of love - for the land, for future generations, for every living being we share this Earth with.
Our speakers include:
Rasu, Chief of the Yawanawa
Oona Chaplin, Actress of Avatar 3
Will Grant, Pachamama Alliance Director of Climate Action
More Indigenous leaders to be announced soon
*Only 65 spots available for Panel + Dinner
Schedule
4:00 – 4:30 pm: Tea lounge & arrival
4:30 – 4:45 pm: Opening ceremony
4:45 – 5:45 pm: Moderated panel featuring Chief Rasu Yawanawa (Amazon tribal leader & forest defender), Oona Chaplin (Avatar 3 actress), local Indigenous leaders, and scientists, activists, and builders
5:45 – 6:45 pm: Dinner & Speaker Project Spotlights
6:45 - 7:30pm: Yawanawa Concert
7:30 - 9:00 pm: Open Music (lineup to be announced)
Dinner
We are offering a vegetarian dinner for 65 guests from Enjoy Veggie in Chinatown SF. Reserve your ticket early to secure your spot.
Enjoy Veggie is restaurant that has a diverse and flavorful menu that draws specific inspiration from our Buddhist roots. Our menu is based on high-quality, healthy and environmentally friendly ingredients.
Questions We’re Exploring Together
How do we, as individuals, participate in protecting the Earth and all its living beings?
How can we steward our lands with love rather than ideology?
How can we learn to weave stewardship into our everyday being from ancestral caretakers of these homelands who have practiced this for millennia?
What does it mean to make a place home as people who are non-Indigenous to the land we live on?
What active stewardship projects in the Bay Area and beyond can we collectively support?
What emerging practices exist for caring for the living things around us?
Why We're Creating This Event
Protecting the Earth has never belonged only to scientists and policy makers. Long before climate reports and carbon markets, Indigenous communities understood stewardship as a way of life - a primary language for how humans relate to each other and to the living world. That knowledge has been carried and practiced across generations, and it is precisely what the dominant climate conversation continues to overlook.
We are building an evening that begins to change that — placing Indigenous stewardship knowledge in genuine conversation with Western climate science, not as a cultural add-on, but as a foundational voice in how we understand and respond to the crisis we are living through together.
Because stewardship doesn't begin with ownership. It begins with attention - to the street tree outside your window, the creek buried beneath your block, the soil under the concrete, the birds still navigating by stars above the city lights. It begins with the relationships we choose to tend, wherever we are.
This evening explores what that looks like in practice: how Indigenous frameworks of land relationship can open new ways of seeing and acting, and what it means to be a caretaker of this Earth - from a rural homestead, a suburban backyard, or a third-floor apartment in the Mission.
Whether you are a scientist, a city dweller, a farmer, or someone who simply loves this Earth - this evening is for you. Come ready to be in relationship, not just informed.
This event is hosted in partnership with Aniwa Digital (www.aniwa.co) and Huya Aniwa Foundation (www.huyaaniwa.org)
Huya Aniwa partners with Indigenous collectives to protect sacred lands, revitalize cultural heritage, and restore ecosystems. By integrating Indigenous wisdom with sustainable land stewardship and reforestation, we support ancestral lifeways rooted in reciprocal relationships with the more-than-human world.
Tickets: Price $45-$200 | Capacity limited to ~65 for Panel + Dinner