Story and Song (Guest Speaker: Seth Mountain)

Seth Mountain 이산 (Seth Martin) is a singer-songwriter, peace activist and poet from the Pacific Northwest who has been living and working with his partner Lee Nan Young in South Korea since 2015.

When active as an artist and musician in Washington and Oregon, Martin frequently attended and shared music with Camas Friends, and still considers CFC to be spiritual family.

These days in Korea, Martin teaches, writes, and frequently participates in and with various cultural and political solidarity actions, events, and groups, most often by performing for groups resisting gentrification and redevelopment violence and promoting local and sustainable cultural movements.

Nan Young Lee is an artist and writer from South Korea. Her work in recent years has been frequently used to support various groups, local and international, in solidarity with struggles against militarization (Gangjeong Village), deforestation (Bijarim-ro Forest) and the violent displacement of market vendors by private-public development schemes (Noryangjin Traditional Market). In February 2023, Lee published her first full length picture-essay book, "About The Trees' Darkness", which uses pictures, reflections and poems to tell a semi-autobiographical story about the lives of people and non-human neighbors suffering under the violence and greed of systemic injustice in contemporary Korea, and the suffering but also life-giving example of strength and caring provided by trees, who suffer with us while offering safety and love to all.