Onbelonging in the Outdoors with Leah Penniman
| Hours: | 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | see below |
| Category: | Virtual Activities |
On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces is back!Originally launched in Spring 2021, we're thrilled to announce our Winter 2023 speakers.
This free speaker series will continue to address the challenges and importance of establishing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in outdoor spaces, and will feature speakers whose work is advancing efforts to strengthen belonging and connection between communities of color and the benefits of time in nature.
Leah Penniman- Founding Co-Ed Soul Fire Farm, Farm Director and Author of Farming While Black and Black Earth Wisdom
'Black Earth Wisdom: Afro-Ecological Survival Strategies'
“I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour.” ~Dr. George Washington Carver, Tuskegee University, 1887
The Queen Mothers of Kroboland, Ghana admonished their Black American students in disbelief, “Is it true that in the United States, a farmer will put the seed into the ground and not pour any libations, offer any prayers, sing, or dance, and expect that seed to grow?” Met with ashamed silence, they continued, “That is why you are all sick!
Because you see the earth as a thing and not a being.”
Ecological humility is part of the cultural heritage of Black people.
While our 400+ years immersion in racial capitalism has attempted to squash that connection to the sacred earth, there are those who persist in believing that the land and waters are family members, and who act accordingly.
In Black Earth Wisdom, Leah Penniman weaves together the lessons from today’s most respected Black environmentalists, those who have cultivated the skill of listening to the lessons that Earth has whispered to them.
Together, we embark on a sensory journey through Black ecological thought.
In this time, we are acutely aware of the fractures in our system of runaway consumption and corporate insatiability.
We feel the hot winds of wildfire, the disruptions of pandemic, and the choked breath of the victims of state violence.
We know there is no going back to “normal.”
The path forward demands that we take our rightful places as the younger siblings in creation, deferring to the oceans, forests, and mountains as our teachers.
Those whose skin is the color of soil are reviving their ancestral and ancient practice of listening to the Earth to know which way to go.
As Dr. Carver explained, “How do I talk to a little flower?
Through it I talk to the Infinite.
And what is the Infinite?
It is that silent, small force… that still small voice.”
Hosted by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Farrington Nature Linc, The Food Project, Lincoln Land Conservation Trust, Mass Audubon, and The Walden Woods Project.
Additional support provided by Freedom's Way, The Lincoln Cultural Center and The Ogden Codman Trust.
ZOOM info will be sent in advance of each speaking engagement.
Closed captioning will be provided.
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