TreeSpirit Presentations are informative, lively and attract a diverse audience of fans of art, photography, environmentalism, forests, nature and animals.
PRESENTATIONS & TALKS:
Welfare-washing: Truth in Advocacy – March 3, 2026
4 vegan activists talk vegan activism
A lively panel discussion with 4 vegan activists working in different sectors of the vegan and animal rights movement: grassroots organizing, street campaigning, advocacy, and farmed animals sanctuaries!Panelists share their perspectives from their work as activists, their personal evolution, and discuss what’s been effective — and also challenging, frustrating and inspiring; the What and Why of their passionate, ongoing advocacy for our animal friends, for the planet, and for us humans — since we all share one home.
An exploratory discussion to air different voices and choices with nuance and contrast; to offer insight, clarity and encouragement and inspiration for fellow animal lovers.
4 Vegan Activist PANELISTS:
• Kathy Cullen, Jolene’s Retreat farmed animal sanctuary
• Jack Gescheidt, Founder, The TreeSpirit Project
• Mike Rupena, A/V (Anonymous for the Voiceless) SF Chapter Organizer
• Lia Wilbourn, IDA (In Defense of Animals), Farmed Animals Campaigner
Moderator: Rachel Bordoli, President, San Francisco Vegan Society
4 min. VIDEO EXCERPT Jack Gescheidt Forestry Conference talk:
Jack Gescheidt TreeSpirit PRESENTATION
“Why Loving Trees Will Save Our Souls — And Our Asses”
Sierra Club, Berkeley, CA
Friday, October 9, 2020
7:30-9PM
WHERE: Sierra Club Bay Area Chapter office, 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA
A lively, wide-ranging talk. Topics include how environmental concerns and responsibility lead directly to a reckoning of your food and consumer choices. How Jack’s tree and forest advocacy led to an evolution in his thinking — and behavior and environmental action. An audience-engaging discussion of interest to anyone daring enough to be open-minded and learn more about how lifestyle and habituated choices have a huge impact on the environment, our community, on everything.
As more and more people are learning now, our most potent, immediate method to personally mitigate the climate crisis — without waiting for fossil fuel companies to correct their ecologically disastrous habits — is to shift to a plant-based diet. Our diet has a direct impact on deforestation, and we will not survive without the world’s forests. LEARN MORE.
Includes TreeSpirit VIDEOS and Jack’s favorite thing, Audience Q&A.
Exhibitions of TreeSpirit photographs bring beauty and an environmental message to your community. Be it in a gallery, museum, at a conference, retreat center, festival, retail space, restaurant, yoga studio, art garden, you name it. Trees deserve to be celebrated, appreciated and protected everywhere. Never doubt that tree lovers are everywhere!
VIDEO: TreeSpirit opening night at The John Wilmer Studio Gallery, Sausalito, CA:
HAVE JACK SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP Email an inquiry to TreeSpirit Project founder Jack Gescheidt to present to your group: contact Jack Gescheidt.
• TreeSpirit presentation on Paul Gaughin cruise ship, in Fiji: May 31- June 14, 2014.
• Shaw Gallery, August–September 2007, Northeast Harbor, Maine
• NoCi Organic Gelateria, January 2008, Mill Valley, CA
• Frantoio, March 2006, Mill Valley, CA
• Sausalito Art Festival, September 2005, Sausalito, CA
• One Taste Gallery, June-July, 2005, San Francisco, CA
• John Wilmer Studio Gallery, March 2005, Sausalito, CA
• New Living Expo, April 2004, San Francisco, CA
• Lydia’s Lovin’ Foods, March 2004, Fairfax, CA
The Bolinas Museum
Framed prints on your walls