More fun as the snow piles higher. Head downstairs at Basecamp Books a little early, get a good seat and order up refreshments. We’ll start the program at 8:00 pm.
The lineup:
CHARLES HUDSON, coming up river
KATH FRASER, musing about music
MATTHEW WENZ, graphic designer
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RIVERS, CONNECTIONS: Charles Hudson is Director of Government Affairs for the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, where he has served since 1999. In this role Charles handles legislative matters and facilitates Federal-Tribal relations. He’s a member the Mandan/Hidatsa tribe of Fort Berthold, North Dakota, and has spoken throughout North America on treaty rights, natural resource management and environmental justice. His passion for tribal issues is derived from his family’s multi-generational fight for treaty rights and justice on the Missouri River, a fight chronicled in the 2004 novel “Coyote Warrior” by Paul Vandevelder.
Charles is the founder and administrator of the Many Dances Family Fund, a charitable fund within the Oregon Community Foundation. Charles’ hobbies include hunting, fishing, hiking and gardening. He is a 1984 graduate of Washington State University. Charles has three sons, and one beautiful granddaughter.
COMPOSERS: The Women’s Experience Kath Fraser will share sound samples and thoughts about women composers and their music. An RN, mom of two, grandma of two, and now radio show host of Gathering Her Notes: Women’s late 20th and 21st century contemporary classical music with the occasional digression.
Kath came to Kit
titas County after hearing about this amazing place while living in Australia. She worked as an RN at the Health Department, Home Health Hospice and at Harborview Medical Center. At 54, she fulfilled a lifelong dream to get a degree in music and attended CWU. You can listen to Gathering Her Notes streaming online (Thursdays 1-2 PM PT), archived, or on Mixcloud.
GRAPHIC ART, CREATIVE DESIGN: Wenz Cr
eative was founded by artist/ designer Matthew Wenz. Mathew moved to Cle Elum in 2009 after working and living in Seattle since 2000. His work is characterized with a style that evokes playfulness and sense of humor balanced with earnestness. He conveys meanings and messages in his art using simple design elements with subtle details to create unique graphics that tell stories.
Designing is like problem solving; Matthew conceptualizes design solutions specifically to portray the desires and needs of every client and project. 
He is influenced by the cultural, social and natural environment from history to speculations of the future. Matthew finds inspiration and beauty in all his surroundings, wherever that place may be.
Top 10 Finalist in the Erma Bombeck Humor Competition. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Salon; Full Grown People; Best American Erotica; The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty and Body Image; and many literary journals. She is a freelance editor, and she teaches at writing conferences and literary centers. She is her son’s 12th mom, her husband’s 1st (and only, that she know of) wife, and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
Yakama War: Ayat (Woman), is a a short film Emily Washines made about the Yakama War, which includes a historical account of her people. She grew up in a family of seven on the Yakama Reservation. She began film in high school and has made a few short videos focused on Yakama people and the environment. Her family taught her to gather foods, dance, sing traditional songs, Yakama language, culture, beadwork, and weaving. She passes these teachings on to the 
younger generation including her two daughters and son. This film was sponsored by a grant from The 
or the USFS on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, and a member of a special work group devoted to the management of rare fungi. She manages the rare botanical (plants, lichens, bryophytes and fungi) species, native plant restoration, and the invasive plant program on the Cle Elum Ranger District.
