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Gray Harrison 10/28/26 Gray Harrison 10/28/26

Small Town Life Poignantly Examined in Two TFF Documentaries

Tacoma Film Festival ran this past weekend, October 22-25, at the Grand Cinema. This was the festival’s 20th anniversary of bringing the best of independent features and short films to Tacoma audiences, and the programming this year knocked it out of the park. There were many highlights, but two documentary films really stood out for their parallels to each other and the uniqueness of their voices.

Parker Dean 10/16/26 Parker Dean 10/16/26

Parker’s Pages: A Psalm for the Wild Built

In preparation for Becky Chambers’ upcoming Town Hall with Caitlin Starling, I took some time to reread A Psalm for the Wild Built, a solarpunk novella following a tea monk named Dex and a curious robot named Mosscap. The book is wonderfully optimistic and introspective, having us question what is most important to us as people and as a society.

Emily Pinckney 11/4/25 Emily Pinckney 11/4/25

Food Security is Food Justice (and a Climate Solution)

“People on food stamps are lazy!” A phrase I and many others have heard too often. In the summer of 2019, I was in my 2nd year at the Seattle Aquarium, managing a little over 400 community partnerships, serving on several boards and committees, and I had just become the newest member of the Washington State Environmental Justice Task Force.

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Small Town Life Poignantly Examined in Two TFF Documentaries

Parker’s Pages: A Psalm for the Wild Built

Food Security is Food Justice (and a Climate Solution)

I was also on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits. Food stamps.