**Please note: This is an IN-PERSON, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Color) ONLY event, taking place at the “Lefferts Historic House” in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Knowledge Share Description
Join Kale and Antonia for an in person, BIPOC only knowledge share and grief ritual exploring the origins of Juneteenth through the lens of time travel.
Although New York City champions itself a beacon of abolition, it was one of the largest slaveholding strongholds of the 18th century. In this knowledge share, we will work through the grief and rage of the misinformation and erasure surrounding enslavement and freedom.
As we hold these stories in the shadows of the once-revered Lefferts family plantation house, we will introduce ourselves to the plant companions that grow from the soil holding the bones and the spirits of those who spent their lives locked within its walls.
Knowledge Share Includes
History of the Lefferts Family Plantation
Origins of Juneteenth
Listening to the plants that have been there and dreaming into the stories they have to share
Exploring relationship of people’s history through ecological time
Building relationships to plants that grow on these lands
Allowing space for grief, complexity, release and stories that may arise
Space for giving offerings to the land
Cost
Sliding Scale $5-50
Location
We will meet at Prospect Park Carousel, 452 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225 at 10:00AM EST
Accessibility Information
*We will be outdoors for the full 2 hours, so please bring anything you may need to be comfortable
*There is a nearby bathroom, however it is not wheelchair accessible
*The paths in the park are paved and wheelchair accessible
*We plan to travel approximately .25 mile along a paved path
*We will not be providing food or water, so please bring whatever you may need
Facilitators
Kale (they/them) is a deep city memory worker who seeks to repair our relationships to this hypersettled land on which we've experienced both bondage and freedom, greeting the spirits who peer out from the cracks in the concrete. They are a descendant of enslaved Africans, Black Seminole resistors, and Ugahxpa people. They draw their knowledge of territory from both ecosystem and archives - diving deep into the realm of traditional research, then pulling out to ask elements, ancestors, and more-than-human kin which stories are ready to be shared
Antonia Estela Pérez is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist, gardener, educator, community organizer, co-founder, and artist born and raised in New York City. Growing up in a first generation household existing at the intersections of land stewardship, education, and social justice, their passion for herbs and plant medicine bridges the relationships between rural and urban spaces. With over 10 years of education including environmental and urban studies at Bard College, Clinical Herbalism at Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine, and learning with herbalists and elders throughout Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Thailand, Pérez facilitates workshops and produces events as the co-founder of NY based collective, Brujas, and Herban Cura: A space centering Indigenous, Black, Queer and Trans communities in the education of land connection.