Tending the Earth: Exploring Ethnobotany and Land Etiquette

Tending the Earth: Exploring Ethnobotany and Land Etiquette

Thursday, February 15th, 6:30pm
Faulkner Gallery – Santa Barbara Public Library
40 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA

Solange Aguilar will be sharing some practical uses of native plants, gathering tips, and why it’s important to know where you are, who the people of the land are, and different ways on how to be a better relative to both the land and the people who have taken care of the land since time immemorial.

Solange Aguilar (They/Ze) is a Mescalero Apache, Yo’eme, & Filipinx (Kalinga & Kapampangan) artist, poet, and zinemaker currently living in Qenepstin, Chumash Territory (Santa Barbara, CA). In 2020, they won first place in the Santa Barbara Poetry Slam. In 2021, they received an artist scholarship from The Pachamama Skillshare and Women’s Creative Collective for Change. They also began a fellowship from the Artist2Artist program by the Art Matters Foundation. In 2022, their zines “Alternatives to White Sage, Palo Santo, Cedar, Sweetgrass, and Copal” and “Skoden: The Ultimate Indigenous Road Trip Guide” were both selected to be included in Harvard Library’s zine collection. In 2023, their poem “Alt-Universe”, along with their artwork entitled “Decolonial Dream #4”, was published in the summer issue of News from Native California.

This free presentation is part of the Trail Talks series hosted by the Santa Barbara Public Library.

The next talk in the series is Thursday, March 21st, Hiking and Backpacking in the San Rafael Wilderness with James Wapotich