Conceived by writer, performance artist, and activist Staceyann Chin, Black to the Land provides participants with logistical, financial, and informational support, as well as access to a network of like-minded individuals, all aimed at fostering dialogue about an equitable and responsible return to the land.
Black to the Land, a residency program designed to support a return to the land for Queer and BIPOC individuals who seek to explore questions of race, class, and sex in relation to land stewardship.
These residencies feature curated conversations and activities with a cohort of approximately 10-15 returnees per program, to query what it means to be Black, Brown, Queer and/or dislocated from our past, our land, our histories.
In your time with us, returnees will:
Explore being Black/Brown/Jamaican/Caribbean and identity & belonging
Dialogue about historical and cultural touch points
Attend a balance of curated & self-directed experiences alongside local Jamaicans
Facilitate “a return” to various ancestral ways of knowing
Redress the harm of dislocation & estrangement
Foster a community that resists transactional relationships toward understanding the inherent value in our shared humanity
Program Activities include, but are not limited to:
Sunrise Yoga
Embodied Movement and Dance Classes
Evening FireSide chats
Farm-to-table community meals
Tending to the land & the animals living at Kindred
Sound bath meditations
Facilitated exchange with local residents, wellbeing practitioners, and scholars
Applications for the Summer 2023 cohort are closed
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Applications for the Summer 2023 cohort are closed •
