Reading and Book Signing with Rena Priest

Name: Reading and Book Signing with Rena Priest
Start: 2025-11-07
End: 2025-11-07
Location: Whatcom Museum

Join us at the Whatcom Museum this Free First Friday for a very special reading and book signing by Washington State's former poet laureate Rena Priest.

At 6 pm and 6:45 pm, she'll read The Secret Medicine, an essay from her new book Positively Uncivilized, which examines the impact of human inhabitants on the planet from an Indigenous perspective. Books for signing will be available for purchase at the museum.

And while you're at the Whatcom Museum, join us for a day of free events and free admission, including:

-Exhibition tours of 'myself inside your story' with artist Mary Ann Peters at 1 pm and 3 pm

-Mending with Silk Hand Stitching with Seiko Purdue from 3 - 5 pm

-And Record Your Story with Podcaster Kyle Norris from 4:30 - 6 pm

Find the entire Free First Friday schedule online. On Free First Fridays, the Whatcom Museum is open from 12 - 9 pm, and the Family Interactive Gallery is open from 10 am - 6 pm.

Starts: November 07, 2025

Time: 6 & 6:45 p.m.

Admission: Free!

Location: Whatcom Museum
121 Prospect St., Bellingham , WA 98225

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We acknowledge that Whatcom County is located on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. They cared for the lands that included what we’d call the Puget Sound region, Vancouver Island and British Columbia since time immemorial. This gives us the great obligation and opportunity to learn how to care for our surrounding areas and all the natural and human resources we require to live. We express our deepest respect and gratitude for our indigenous neighbors, the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.

Bellingham Whatcom County Tourism

Visitor Center Located at I-5 Exit 253 - Check Hours
904 Potter Street, Bellingham, WA 98229
Phone: 360-671-3990

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