Book Events
ORCA Book event at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (virtual)
Join Lynda V. Mapes on July 27, 7pm for a special book launch event of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.
ORCA Book event at Chehalis Basin Lead Entity
Join Lynda V. Mapes on June 30, 3:30pm for a special book launch event of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home with the Chehalis Basin Lead Entity.
Pre-Register Here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
ORCA Book event at Browsers Books (Virtual)
Join Lynda V. Mapes on June 17th, 6pm for a special book launch event of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home. Event is hosted by Browsers Books in Olympia, WA. This event is virtual.
ORCA Book event with NOAA (virtual)
Join Lynda V. Mapes on June 17th, 12:00pm for a special book launch event of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home. Event is hosted by NOAA. This event is virtual.
ORCA Book event at Village Books (virtual)
Join Lynda V. Mapes on June 10th for a special book launch event of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home. Event is hosted by Village Books in Bellingham, as a part of the North Cascades Institute’s Writers in Nature Speaker Series.
World Oceans Day Celebration with David Suzuki Foundation
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Join an online celebration. We invite you join us at noon Pacific time on WorldOceans Day (Tuesday, June 8) to celebrate southern resident orcas through story, song and science.
The event will open with a live performance of "Yéw̓yews," the “Orca Song,” by Foundation friend and world-renowned Chinook SongCatchers founder Latash Maurice Nahanee.
Sit back for an hour to enjoy a live reading from Orca Chief by Roy Henry Vickers, followed by a conversation about the amazing Salish Sea orcas.
Roy Henry Vickers, celebrated artist and author of Orca Chief
Latash Maurice Nahanee, singer, composer, choreographer and co-founder of Chinook SongCatchers
Lynda Mapes, Seattle Times award-winning nature reporter and author of the new book, Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home
Jeffery Young, senior science and policy analyst, David Suzuki Foundation
ORCA Book event with the Whale Museum (virtual)
Join Lynda V. Mapes on June 3rd for a special book launch event of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home hosted by The Whale Museum.
ORCA Book Launch (virtual)
SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENT! Join author Lynda V. Mapes and special guests for a conversation about the history and the future of Orca whales in Puget Sound. Registration required.
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The virtual launch will feature Lynda and three eminent guests deeply attuned to the southern resident orcas, their past, their present and their future: Jay Julius, lifelong fisherman and former chairman of the Lummi Nation; Deborah Giles, research director of Wild Orca, and Jason Colby, environmental historian and chairman of the history department at the University of Victoria. The launch event will be moderated by Seattle broadcast journalist Jeff Renner, who personally met his first orca face-to-face through a scuba mask years ago.
The event is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company, Mountaineers Books and The Seattle Times. This event is supported by The Seattle Public Library Foundation. This event will be recorded for SPL’s YouTube Channel.