Donate, Sponsor an Event, or Gift a Class
Your contribution supports classes, workshops, and events that give local BIPGM Creatives access to a deeper support system and help us build Systems of Heart. Every dollar keeps these offerings accessible, rooted in community care, and moving toward land and collective wellness.
WHERE YOUR $120 TICKET GOES
Every ticket directly fuels the night — and our community build.
halloween saturday
Halloween Create & Connect Fundrasier
Held at White Center Hub · 10829 8th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98146 · Saturday 10/31 · 6–9pm. All welcome — come with love, family friendly, zero substance.
A variety of hands-on activities, crafts, music instruments, dance space, drinks, treats and light wellness food — come in costume or come as you are and enjoy a night of creativity, music, and community.
This Saturday gathering raises funds for our Systems of Heart build.
seasonal makers & medicine
Holiday BIPGM Makers Markets
Join us for two warm, community-centered holiday markets celebrating local BIPGM makers, artists, growers, and small businesses:
November 14–15 and December 5–6
11 AM–5 PM
White Center Hub · 10829 8th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98146
Come discover meaningful gifts rooted in culture, creativity, and care. Shop handmade herbal goods, local art, vintage finds, plant starts, delicious offerings, and one-of-a-kind creations from BIPGM makers.
Calling vendors
Vendor tables are $125–$150. We welcome the shine of your culture, craft, and creativity—whether you make art, food, herbal products, clothing, home goods, plants, vintage finds and treasures, or other handmade offerings. We welcome repurposed creations from vintage finds.
Bring what reflects you and your community. This is a space for makers to share their gifts, connect with neighbors, and be part of a joyful holiday gathering.
Community welcome
These markets are free to attend and open to everyone. Come with love, bring your family, and spend the day in community. Children are always welcome, and we will have a free crafting table for little ones and creative spirits of all ages.
Sponsor or donate
We rely on sponsorships and donations to help cover venue rental, marketing, and promotional costs so these markets can remain accessible to vendors and the broader community. You can sponsor a vendor table or make a donation to support local BIPGM makers and help keep this gathering open, welcoming, and rooted in care.
curiosity & play
Community of Heart Social Saturday. Fundraiser
All are welcome to come — curiosity and play! Come craft, connect, and build our greenhouse community wellness center with us.
Held at White Center Hub · 10829 8th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98146 · Saturday, December 12 · 6–9pm. Grab your tickets today — this fundraiser supports our Systems of Heart — Community Center Build and helps us get closer to land, a greenhouse cafe, workshops, and homes for our community.
All are welcome, come with love.
a space we are growing together
Imagining Systems ofHeart- Cultural Wellness Center
where we shift the system together and build deeper ecosystems of support, connection and joy.
A glimpse of the greenhouse community wellness space we imagine—rooted in plants, nourishment, creativity, comfort, rest, and romance.
Where the vision begins
Sunset over wide fields of flowers, healing herbs, and a thriving PNW food forest.
Scene 1 of 11: Where the vision begins
Collab Cafe
Held at White Center Hub · 10829 8th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98146 · 6–9pm. These gatherings are held with the intention of creating support ecosystems in our local creative BIPGM community — through the deep depths and empowerment of feminine energy.
These gatherings are for BIPGM women, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and queer folks.
Help Us Co-Create Collab Café
Collab Café is being built by us, for us—rooted in the real needs, gifts, dreams, and ideas of our community.
Rather than creating a program and hoping it fits, we want to listen first. Your responses will help shape the days, times, pricing, food, wellness offerings, creative activities, accessibility, and support systems within Collab Café.
Whether you want to attend, share your needs, offer your skills, collaborate as a chef, baker, artist, designer, organizer, partner, sponsor, or simply stay connected, your voice matters.
Together, we are building an ecosystem of nourishment, creativity, care, opportunity, and community support.
Our Five-Step Series — 6–9pm
Our first Collab Cafe gatherings move through five steps together — each one a building block of our ecosystem of support:
- Step 1 — Share your needs & offerings.
- Step 2 — Building intentional support systems.
- Step 3 — Healing & Financial Wealth.
- Step 4 — Photos & Videos of you and your creations.
- Step 5 — Creating our ecosystem of support.
Creative & Reflective Labs
Moon Writing & Poetry is about taking back our voice, our stories, and knowing how important it is we share. Seven generations down the line will be looking back to us during these times. No longer will we let white men tell our stories about us!
Joy & Creativity — Crafting — Try It Labs are about testing out your products, writings, shares, ideas, builds, plans, and more — welcoming honest feedback from this community, along with crafting in joy with your community and enjoying delicious wellness food made by local BIPGM chefs & bakers.
Community money cycling: At each gathering, two people will be selected to receive funding collected from attendance that day. We take turns empowering one another, pooling what we can, and directly funding the evolving projects, dreams, and creative work of our own community.
Herbalism-Holistic Care Classes
All class funds go directly toward our Systems of Heart build — these are classes + fundraisers!
All are welcome to attend, come with love.
We can also travel to your location for your team, family, or friend group within King and Pierce County.
Parking for Our Events
White Center Hub parking: Free public parking is available in stalls 1–36 near the front of the Hub.
Evening-hours and weekend school parking: We have permission, guests may park at the nearby school lots during evenings and weekends, then take the short walk through the park to White Center Hub.
Street parking: Additional street parking may be available nearby.
meet your facilitator
Jess Rene
Jess Rene is a Two-Spirit Indigenous Designer, Herbalist, Ethnobotanist, Ecologist, Architect, and Urban Planner specializing in sustainable design, food forests, and community-centered spaces. Rooted in food justice, cultural reclamation, and holistic care, Jess creates meaningful projects that foster equity, connection, and ecological stewardship.
As a self-taught nutritionist, Jess passionately advocates for nutrition as a foundational pillar of health. Embracing the belief that food is medicine, they integrate holistic wellness practices that reconnect communities with ancestral active-care and lifestyle wisdom—honoring the relationships among nourishment, land, body, and spirit.
Jess proudly honors their rich Indigenous heritage, embraced from both sides of their family.
On their mother’s side, their roots trace to the Nahua, Otomi, Zapotec, Mixteca, and Tarahumara peoples, alongside Amazonian and Andean roots. While Jess has not been formally claimed by these tribes, they deeply value the ongoing recovery of their roots and cultural traditions. Their Southwestern and Northeastern ancestry strengthens their connection to the land and to the care given to how plants are grown, tended, and prepared. Jess believes that we eat energy: the energy of the soil, the water, the hands, the intention, and the relationships that bring food and medicine to life.
On their father’s side, Jess descends from mixed First Nations heritage including Algonquin, Montagnais, Cree, Ojibway (Anishinaabeg), Iroquois (Mohawk), and Scandinavian Sámi ancestry.
Committed to honoring the land and promoting resilience, Jess specializes in sustainable landscape and ecological design. Their work includes planning and developing food forests, community gardens, and regenerative landscapes that support biodiversity and cultural plant relationships. Jess envisions community wellness hubs where natural elements and Indigenous stewardship unite to nurture healing environments. Sustainability, reciprocity, and respect for the Earth guide every project and class they lead.
Class Categories
Each class is rooted in a plant ally — explore the many ways we weave plants, culture, and wellness together.
Herbalism Classes
Plant medicine for the body, heart, and spirit.
Marshmallow root & chamomile
Hawthorn berry & rose
Mullein & elecampane
Red clover & vitex
Tulsi & lemon balm
Fire cider & raw honey
Cabbage, ginger & garlic
Calendula & comfrey
Arnica & St. John's wort
Cacao & rose petal
Cedar, sage & rue
Blue lotus & peppermint
Ashwagandha & schisandra
Damiana & cacao
Rose, hawthorn & motherwort
Burdock & dandelion root
Rosemary & gotu kola
Lavender & passionflower
Mugwort & yarrow
PNW Harvests
Wildcrafting with the seasons of the Salish lands.
Nettle, cleavers & cottonwood bud
Elderflower, yarrow & St. John's wort
Rosehip, hawthorn & elderberry
Cedar, fir tips & roots
Forming Community
Growing seeds, gardens, and each other.
Community seed keeping
Sustainability practice
Blessing the starts
Food forest layers
Mutual aid & skill trade
Moon Meals
Cooking with the cycle — each season through menstrual, follicular, ovulation, and luteal phases.
Menstrual · Follicular · Ovulation · Luteal
Menstrual · Follicular · Ovulation · Luteal
Menstrual · Follicular · Ovulation · Luteal
Menstrual · Follicular · Ovulation · Luteal