We cordially invite you to the soft, merciful raucous of bearfat, a feast of stories and music for the deep of winter. We gather to nourish ourselves: to take in the thick care that sustains us through this cold, clarifying season, and to replenish the hope and courage we need to keep showing up for the environmental and social needs of our time.

Story, myth, and synchronicity are part of the nourishment that deepens our connection to each other and the living world, sustaining our collective efforts to make the world more life-affirming.

This evening is a benefit for Weaving Earth, whose programs carry that spirit forward, and your presence and support help make it possible.
Featuring stories and music from special guests — full lineup coming soon!
Join us for the tender embrace of an evening of bearfat to warm the bones of your soul ~

What the evening holds

Storytellers, poets and musicians from the Weaving Earth community will share offerings loosely woven around bears and bearfat: myths, encounters, dreams. After each one, we’ll feed the story together, letting a few words of what moved you land in the chat, read back aloud like a waterfall poem. [A visual artist will listen alongside us all evening, gathering what’s shared into a single image we’ll reveal at the close.]

How to be there

Perhaps you’ll tune in gathered with loved ones at home or in a cherished community space, making food for each other, working on a craft, or simply listening as you settle into bed for the night. However you arrive, come as you are.

Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education believes that education must critically engage inherited systems of separation and domination, and at the same time responsibly recollect a deeper human inheritance: stories of interrelationship, belonging, dignity and respect. At the root of this deeper inheritance is the embodied remembering that humans are a part of nature, not apart from it. From this orientation, we work with youth, teens, adults, and organizations in the Bay Area and beyond to build a more just and resilient future.

bearfat benefit for WE

an evening of storytelling to warm the bones through winter