Name: Roger Fernandes
Start: 2025-05-22T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-22T19:30:00-07:00
Location: The Wyncote NW Forum

Roger Fernandes

Sacred Breath Series

Date:: Thursday, May 22
Time:: 7:30 pm PDT
Cost:: $10 – $35 Sliding Scale

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Venue

: The Wyncote NW Forum
: 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Event Format: In-Person

Note: Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

Richard Fernandes sits and gestures as he talks, holding a drum in one hand.

Arts & Culture

The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series, Sacred Breath, featuring Indigenous writers and storytellers who share their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.

After a delightful event with author Arigon Starr in March, The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington returns to Town Hall Seattle for another evening of storytelling, reading, and sharing with novelist and storyteller Roger Fernandes.

Roger Fernandes is a Native American artist, storyteller, and educator whose work focuses on the traditional arts, legends, and teachings of the Coast Salish tribes of the Puget Sound region of Western Washington. He is a member of the Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe and has a degree in Native American Studies from the Evergreen State College and a Masters Degree in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University. He also studied graphic design at the University of Washington and has focused on learning, creating and teaching Coast Salish art for the past 20 years.

Presented by Town Hall Seattle and The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington.