Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

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Hummingbird’s Indigenous Storytelling Artist Residency for Caregivers

Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/DalcettaArt

20 people max for this workshop.

What: Cut from a Different Cloth Workshop with Dalcetta Palepale

Date: Sunday, May 31st, 2026 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Location: Madespace - 2002 E Union St, Seattle, WA 98122

Cut from a Different Cloth Art Workshop

Cut From A Different Cloth is a guided mixed-media self-portrait workshop centered on self-love, confidence, and celebrating the beauty of who you are. Created as a self-portrait experience for everyone, this workshop invites participants to reflect on their identity, individuality, and the parts of themselves that deserve to be seen, honored, and celebrated.

Inspired by my signature faceless portrait style, guests will create vibrant, layered portraits that focus on expression beyond physical features. Rather than painting facial details, participants will use shape, color, pattern, texture, and symbolism to tell the story of who they are—what makes them unique, what makes them radiant, and what parts of themselves deserve more love.

In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, the workshop also incorporates tapa/ngatu-inspired collage elements as a way to celebrate storytelling through pattern, culture, and layered identity. Each finished piece becomes both a keepsake and a visual affirmation—a reminder to take up space, move with confidence, and honor the beauty of being themselves.

Using paint, collage, and intuitive mark-making, each participant will leave with a bold and meaningful self-portrait—a visual affirmation of confidence, creativity, and the beauty of taking up space.

Contact: [email protected] - Storytelling Manager

Join us Thursday, May 21st from 5:30 - 7:00pm for our Pilimakua Indigenous Perinatal Emotional Support Group for Parents on Zoom! This is an online, drop-in space to share, connect, learn, and heal together.

✨ Open to Indigenous (American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander) families who are trying to conceive, expecting, or parenting a child 0–3 years old.

💬 You do not need to be enrolled in any Hummingbird program to attend!

📝 Registration is required for each session. Link to register: bit.ly/IEWPG26

Whether you’re navigating stress, Baby Blues, or just need a supportive community, we’re here for you. 🤝 Let’s talk, learn, and uplift each other 💬💞

Hosted by the Pilimakua Indigenous Emotional Wellness Program 🪶

🪡 Birth Bundle Series: Birthing Gowns

🗓️ Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
⏰ Time: 10am - 4pm
📍 Hummingbird Office - Columbia City
❗️REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED ❗️

Join us this Wednesday, May 20th for our Birth Bundle Series: Birthing Gowns lead by our very own Kaya Alice Oligario (Nanaimo First Nations/Squamish, Filipina)

This class is intended for Native, Pasifika and Kānaka Maoli families and relatives of families of new and expectant babies.

🧵 All materials will be provided free of cost!
🍽️ Catered lunch will be provided.
🅿️ Parking on street or paid lot.

🔗 Link to Register: https://bit.ly/3RcxjjE?r=qr

JOIN US FOR A WARM
GATHERING WHERE EXPERTS
WILL SHARE HELPFUL
INSIGHTS ON PREGNANCY AND HEALTH IN THE NHPI COMMUNITY. ENJOY FOOD, MUSIC, AND FUN PRIZES.

Join Hummingbird IFS and Family Ways King County on Friday, May 15, 2026 for the 2026 Pasifika Health Summit

Our Hummingbird team will be speaking and co-MCing!

🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15th, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am - 4pm
📍 Where: Federal Way Aquatic Center

All are welcome!

Register Here to Attend: https://bit.ly/PasifikaSummit26

Join us for our FINAL workshop with our Artist in Residence - Malia Peoples and Special Guest Artist Aunty U’i!

🔗 Registration Link: tinyurl.com/wahi516

16 people max for this workshop.

🌴 What: Wahi Hoʻomanaʻo: Coconut Wreath and Feather Flower Workshop

🗓️ Date: Saturday, May 16th, 27th, 2026

⏰ Time: 12:00pm - 4:00pm

📍 Location: HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES OFFICE

Wahi Hoʻomanaʻo: Coconut Wreath and Feather Flower Workshop

A wahi hoʻomanaʻo is a place of remembrance. In this workshop, you will create two items to use in a personal altar or sacred place in your home. These can be used to honor those who have passed, or to carry wishes for someone yet to come.

Participants will create a coconut wreath or table piece, led by master weaver Aunty U‘i from Lahaina. This can serve as the foundation for your altar and be added to in class and at home.

Resident artist Malia will share how to make feather flowers, a long-lasting keepsake to add to your altar or wear in your hair. An activity station will also be set up for kids to make their own flowers from felt.

Participants are welcome to bring small items or photos of loved ones to share their story.

Join us Thursday, May 7th from 5:30 - 7:00pm for our Pilimakua Indigenous Perinatal Emotional Support Group for Parents on Zoom! This is an online, drop-in space to share, connect, learn, and heal together.

✨ Open to Indigenous (American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander) families who are trying to conceive, expecting, or parenting a child 0–3 years old.

💬 You do not need to be enrolled in any Hummingbird program to attend!

📝 Registration is required for each session. Link to register: bit.ly/IEWPG26

Whether you’re navigating stress, Baby Blues, or just need a supportive community, we’re here for you. 🤝 Let’s talk, learn, and uplift each other 💬💞

Hosted by the Pilimakua Indigenous Emotional Wellness Program 🪶

May 5th, is the National Day of Awareness and Remembrance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people (MMIWG2S+).

Today and everyday, we honor and remember our stolen relatives. Those whose names echo in the wind, whose voices will never be silenced, whose stories were never finished, whose strength still walks beside us. We light a fire in their honor, and vow to carry their memory into action.

Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services’ sacred work is to protect, care and support our pregnant and birthing relatives. The percentage of MMIWG2S who were pregnant or one year postpartum is unclear. There is an immediate need for more research and data to uplift their stories.

We honor and mourn the lives of our missing and murdered Indigenous pregnant relatives. We remember. We rise. We fight for justice. They are not forgotten. Forever sacred.

WE MUST PROTECT PREGNANT INDIGENOUS RELATIVES!

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Join Hummingbird IFS and Family Ways King County on Friday, May 15, 2026 for the 2026 Pasifika Health Summit

Our Hummingbird team will be speaking and co-MCing!

🗓️ Date: Friday, May 15th, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am - 4pm
📍 Where: Federal Way Aquatic Center

All are welcome!

Register Here to Attend: https://bit.ly/PasifikaSummit26

Join us on World Maternal Mental Health Day!

Hummingbird is co-hosting an Indigenous-led community conversation on pregnancy, birth, and emotional wellness. Panelists will share their knowledge and lived experiences, followed by time for community questions and connection.

What have you always wanted to know about pregnancy, birth, and perinatal emotional health? What do you want to know about Indigenous birthing practices? What do you wish you could ask an OB/GYN, doula, or peer counselor?

Panelists:
*Vanessa Lovejoy-Guron (Karayan/Kumintáng), Birthkeeper Department Director, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

*LeChante’ Railawui (Fijian/Black), Pilimakua Indigenous Emotional Wellness Bestie, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

*Dr. Celeste Colgrove (Tlingit), Fourth Year OB/GYN Resident, University of Washington School of Medicine

*Moderated by Olivia Morgan (Choctaw, Chickasaw), Community Evaluation Coordinator, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Xa1yhehTSSGeFqgIMNSjGg