Welcome back, dear friends, for our last Fallow event of the year! We can't believe that this little seed has grown and grown and we are already arriving into December. We wanted to close the year with something special - an opportunity to rest and relax, blending herbs and art-making.❄️
Join us at Soanes Centre for a late afternoon communing where we will be making supportive tea blends for this winter.🍵
We'll also be engaging in some reflective arts and crafts, as well as an intention setting fire after sunset.
We'll be joined by Jacob V Joyce who will facilitate the craft space, whilst Dre will guide us through our tea making.
We'll also have some delicious warm food too! More details to be announced.
This event is for BPOC/Global Majority only.
Tickets are pay what you can with ticket sales going towards covering the cost of the event and LION's Land Pot. If cost is a barrier to you attending, email sumayyah@landinournames.community for a free ticket.
Save Soanes Centre
The Soanes Centre is a beloved community space centred around education and connecting with land and wildlife. The Soanes Centre is currently under risk and the community have therefore mobilised to imagine, reflect and organise towards securing the future of the space. Our decision to hold our session here reflects LION's solidarity with the campaign. You can find more information @savesoanes and @kinstructures
Dre Ferdinand is a licensed social worker, artist and therapist, whose practices include movement, energy, sound, soil, and EMDR, a modality that has informed her approach which she refers to as ‘MESSE’. Dre’s practice framework is rooted in healing, social and restorative justice. Her professional journey involves aiding individuals and communities in processing and recovering from systemic harm and trauma as well as advocating for therapeutic support for social workers. Her teachings are centred on helping people navigate their internal landscape, collective care, and processing trauma. You can contact Dre at hello@dreferdinand.com or @idreferdi
Jacob V Joyce’s work ranges from afro-futurist world-building workshops to mural painting, comic books and performance art. They are currently a doctoral candidate researching the history of Black British arts education at Westminster University. Joyce has self-published several zines and illustrated international human rights campaigns for Out Proud African LGBTI, Amnesty International, Global Justice Now and had their comics in national newspapers. A TFL Arts Grant awardee and former artist in residence at Gasworks, Serpentine, The Museum of Homelessness, Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Galleries Education department, Joyce is a non-binary artist amplifying historical and nourishing new queer and decolonial narratives.
Find out more: www.jacobvjoyce.com and via @jacobvjoyce on Instagram.
Land In Our Names is a grassroots collective of Black and People of Colour getting land through reparations. Our collective is based in London, Britain, and works to reconnect Black and People of Colour to land, both in the city and in the countryside. Our work addresses the inequalities in access to land and food, and reimagines land stewardship towards climate and racial justice. We are organising toward collective ownership and land stewardship by Black and People of Colour, to heal the colonial-rooted trauma that has separated us and continues to extract from the land. Find out more at our website - landinournames.community, sign up to our newsletter here, and follow us on instagram @landinournames
Fallow
Fallow is a series of community care workshops integrating the healing and repair element of Land In Our Names’ aims and values into our work. We believe that there is a deep need for accessible healing spaces for Black and People of Colour (BPOC) landworkers and earthworkers, climate, food, farming, land and racial justice organisers. Moreover, it is vital to connect this work to land and food, in particular political understandings of land and food that are rooted in ancestral, anti-colonial, and radical practices. We see collective care as essential in supporting food growers and other landworkers who experience physical and mental burnout from low wages and intensive physical labour. It is important for social justice organisers who similarly struggle with low wages, long hours and demanding work.