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Hollyhock Presenters

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Our presenters are curated for their quality, depth, integrity, and alignment with our educational purpose. Since 1982, a distinguished faculty of authors, educators, activists, artists, performers, and practitioners have shared their work at our Cortes Island campus and in Vancouver.

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Day Schildkret

Day Schildkret is an award-winning queer author, artist, ritualist, teacher and is internationally known for Morning Altars, which BuzzFeed calls, “a celebration of nature and life.” With nearly 100k followers on social media, Day has worked for close to two decades with thousands of individuals, communities and organizations to help heal the culture through a meaningful and creative response to marking personal and collective change.

Day is the author of “Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change” (Simon Element/Simon & Schuster) which hit Amazon’s #1 book in three categories, as well as, “Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual” (The Countryman Press/W.W. Norton). He is also the founder and principal instructor of the Morning Altars Practitioner & Teacher Training.

dayschildkret.com // morningaltars.com // @morningaltars on Instagram & Facebook.

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