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RAM is thrilled to announce the return of its premier annual fundraiser! Save the date for&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://4ltow9bab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001y0giOV3dXHrLhen9at4PNcklNHOzPl_vaqBypfu1Q-V5d-iUsMvwQRr6mvA6k4mklrQ7XF6k4BqidlJm66F1G33BGmqptz_XFcknW7cgl_sczMha0XnUEU3VtV7fN89e95_1BzmaUUEy6q9YgS8FYoaQ2e47F5Q9sf4bLQuXeZo=&amp;c=eQ3Qa_yjxb4scjUBTP0IXBto9mTjOgcLtVUhdIYyhIxPAUKGOOmQ-A==&amp;ch=0TOspyf_bnH7P8b-IKCzAj3A0JH3ujz_Y0LtzasHFbT1inmLu9I_eA==" target="_blank">SAVOUR 2025</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;Saturday, September 27, 5:30 – 10:30 pm at RAM's Wustum Museum.This year's extravaganza is set to be the most artistic, stylish garden party you have ever seen.&nbsp;SAVOUR 2025: Garden Gala—Cultivating Creativity&nbsp;will be filled with music, dancing, delicious food, and gorgeous flowers.Stay tuned to RAM's newsletter and social media channels—including&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://4ltow9bab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001y0giOV3dXHrLhen9at4PNcklNHOzPl_vaqBypfu1Q-V5d-iUsMvwQankUkxJP55PcuriLK2QMO8cJOFolTlTHeFZsAmhMvtc-NgJDfyOgIpiO_rLl3jithrZO-W_47vPe6fDUSTB3msRVw_W_j4MdLXb-vm5VE1qOhU13P6sCm-i4BrUl5-tF654bJprg_Ij&amp;c=eQ3Qa_yjxb4scjUBTP0IXBto9mTjOgcLtVUhdIYyhIxPAUKGOOmQ-A==&amp;ch=0TOspyf_bnH7P8b-IKCzAj3A0JH3ujz_Y0LtzasHFbT1inmLu9I_eA==" target="_blank">Instagram</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://4ltow9bab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001y0giOV3dXHrLhen9at4PNcklNHOzPl_vaqBypfu1Q-V5d-iUsMvwQcm9wp1HNFJJJ-vJROOFIIOuNwJU2TNt4qeLon78JyxheAT_bAoTfYrXnGQmBp2nT18VWyecAP_pU2rpUtTARu-y8iOR52GhK1cztqfOo3HFLIKkWlKUYttKRDwc1h0Ev-XB830SdgRZ&amp;c=eQ3Qa_yjxb4scjUBTP0IXBto9mTjOgcLtVUhdIYyhIxPAUKGOOmQ-A==&amp;ch=0TOspyf_bnH7P8b-IKCzAj3A0JH3ujz_Y0LtzasHFbT1inmLu9I_eA==" target="_blank">Facebook</a>—to learn more about this un-bud-lievable event when more details are released.

SAVOUR 2025

Location: Epiphany Center (201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607) Join us at our 25th Anniversary Annual Benefit Auction and Dance Party. Enjoy a lively evening complete with music, cocktails, mingling with our artists, not-to-be-missed silent and live auctions, and&nbsp;a dance party. Come&nbsp;be part of a celebration dedicated to art and community at our Silver-themed celebration!&nbsp;

25th Anniversary Benefit Auction

Flourish: Embracing Indigenous and Scientific KnowledgeSupport Brushwood's impact&nbsp;at the 42nd Annual Smith Nature SymposiumHonoring author, scientist, mother, professor, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer Saturday, October 11, 2025Chicago Botanic Garden1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL 60022 Smith Nature Symposium Co-Chairs:Lois Morrison and Janea Harris About the Smith Nature Symposium 2024 Environmental Leadership Award winner Dr. Mona Hanna with emcees Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra at the Smith Nature Symposium Awards DinnerThe Smith Nature Symposium is Brushwood’s largest fundraising event of the year, and all funds raised from the Smith Awards Dinner directly benefit our programs for youth, families, and Veterans across our community.&nbsp;&nbsp;On May 6, 1984, more than 350 people gathered for the first Smith Nature Symposium featuring Roger Tory Peterson. Organized under the leadership of Barbi Donnelley, Symposium Co-Chair, this jam-packed convening of nature-lovers became the first of four decades of annual Symposia memorializing the significant civic legacy of Hermon Dunlap and Ellen Thorne Smith, who donated their land and cabin to help form Ryerson Woods. About Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer&nbsp;is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of&nbsp;The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants&nbsp;and&nbsp;Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.&nbsp;She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. The Serviceberry As Indigenous scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most?&nbsp;Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival.&nbsp;&nbsp;As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.” Braiding Sweetgrass As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In&nbsp;Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).&nbsp;Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

42nd Annual Smith Nature Symposium Awards Dinner

5:30 - 8:30pm Cocktail Hour and Dinner8:30 - 11:30pm After Party Honorees Amanda WilliamsEsther Grimm Co-chairs Christy MacLearMirja Spooner Haffner <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hydeparkart.org/gala/" target="_blank">Details</a>

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