Ramadan Mubarak and Spring Greetings!✨
LION are collaborating with Coffee Afrik on this very special edition of Fallow. We want to bring together LION's community and Coffee Afrik's community for a potluck dinner and workshops that centre care, compassion and connection.
This event is for BPOC/Global Majority only. It is open to those of all faiths and none!
The lovely aunties at Coffee Afrik will be cooking some food for us, but please bring any Ramadan-friendly food to share when we break fast! This means either halal or vegetarian dishes, and no alcohol! Food will begin to be served at 6:30pm.🍲
We'll also have an upcycling workshop where we'll be thinking intentionally about decreasing and repurposing ‘waste’ materials. A central theme in Ramadan that we'll be exploring is being intentional about consumption and our relationship with communities throughout the production cycle, including our siblings in the Global South and the earth that we extract materials from.
Please bring any scrap fabric you'd like to contribute to a collectively upcycled project. 🪡Led by facilitator, Maty Gueye.
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.
Please note that we'll be taking photographs and videos throughout the event. If you'd prefer not to be on camera, please let a LION member know on arrival.
Artwork by @BlkMoodyBoi
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
Maty Gueye is a passionate entrepreneur, fashion designer, and hairstylist with a deep love for art and creativity. From a young age, she honed her skills through hands-on activities at summer camps, learning sewing techniques, knitting, jewelry making, embroidery, and more. As she grew, her passion for craftsmanship evolved into a business. She began selling her handmade creations to friends, family, and customers who admired her unique designs. After earning a bachelor's degree in Business Management, she officially launched her fashion brand MAHTY’S DESIGN in 2012, specializing in handmade leather shoes, bags, and accessories. In 2016, Maty organised her first fashion show in her home country, Senegal, which was a great success. Since then, she has continued to expand her brand, selling her products worldwide. You can contact Maty at mahtysdesignclothing@gmail.com
Coffee Afrik is leading 26 projects for marginalised Black and Global Majority communities across seven Hubs based in East London,. Projects include a problematic drug use safe space, a research lab, a youth hub, two women’s cooperatives, and a systemic litigation space. Our work is inspired by the Black Panther Party and its community programming, designed with key principles including love, care, and liberatory harm reduction. Follow on instagram @coffeeafrikcic and twitter here
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’ definition of reparations, our 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.