Children of the Setting Sun Productions (CSSP) is chock-full of kind, educated, friendly individuals who have made it their life mission to advocate for the environment, human rights, and Native history.
Photograph courtesy of Children of the Setting Sun Productions
One of the company’s main goals is to fight for Native communities by working to educate the public.
“We’re constantly fighting erasure, there’s no easy way to say it…but there is something special about growing up indigenous and embracing those life-ways and to be able to really push against that,” says Free Borsey, the Environmental Stewardship Specialist at CSSP.
Photograph courtesy of Children of the Setting Sun Productions
That’s why Children of the Setting Sun is working to establish a permanent destination that will be open to the public at the old Mindport Exhibits space in Downtown Bellingham. Named Setting Sun Circle (for now), this building will contain a contemporary Salish gallery, a theater, a meditation garden, maker spaces, a woodshop, and many other educational experiences.
Photograph courtesy of Children of the Setting Sun Productions
“We operate under three pillars, which are: create, share and educate. And that’s all of our programming and mission, you know, is geared towards creating and sharing and educating the public about Coast Salish ways of knowing,” says daniseten Michael Vendiola, the Chief Operations Officer at CSSP.
210 W. Holly St., Bellingham, 360.410.1695, settingsunproductions.org
