Gather
Winter Solstice 2023
Grounds for Peace
Gather with Meeting Ground and Rejjia Camphor via Zoom at 5 pm on Friday, January 12, 2024, Zoom
RSVP for link: www.meetinggroundprojects.org
How can we prepare our grounds for peace?
Rejjia Camphor is an artist, educator, environmental and community activist, and founder of Sister Stream Catcher. She has been tirelessly working to protect and improve an area of Hanlon Park in Baltimore. She organizes trash clean ups and is holding that ground for emotional balance and a space of care. It was in Hanlon Park that Rejjia began a journey about “discovering herself on the ground.”
Recently she presented on a panel in the “Boundary Spanners” session at the Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership to discuss working across the disciplines of art/environment/social justice/science. Her film was selected for the 2022 Born In Baltimore Film Festival that celebrates new voices in cinema and photographic arts.
Meeting Ground is honored to support the work of this visionary.
Winter Solstice 2022
Gather with Meeting Ground and Rejjia Camphor via Zoom at 7 pm on Wednesday, December 28th (rsvp for link)
Share your ground here: app.meetinggroundprojects.org or meetinggroundprojects@gmail.com
Rejjia Camphor is an artist, educator, environmental and community activist, and founder of Sister Stream Catcher. She has been tirelessly working to protect and improve an area of Hanlon Park in Baltimore. She organizes trash clean ups and is holding that ground for emotional balance and a space of care. It was in Hanlon Park that Rejjia began a journey about “discovering herself on the ground.”
Recently she presented on a panel in the “Boundary Spanners” session at the Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership to discuss working across the disciplines of art/environment/social justice/science. Her film was selected for the 2022 Born In Baltimore Film Festival that celebrates new voices in cinema and photographic arts.
Meeting Ground is honored to support the work of this visionary.
Summer 2022
Ground with us from your location all summer
Gather with Jessica Valoris via Zoom at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 29th (rsvp for link)
Share your ground here: app.meetinggroundprojects.org or meetinggroundprojects@gmail.com
Jessica Valoris is a multidisciplinary artist and community facilitator. Through ritual performance, sound collage, and mixed media painting, she creates sacred spaces that honor the earth-based traditions of her Black and Jewish ancestors. Her art is rooted in practices of collective care, ancestral reverence and embodied study.
The work that she creates helps her to breathe, and to make sense of the world she inhabits. It is a practice of petit marronage; seeking refuge in an inner wilderness, making space for her emotional self, listening to the needs of her body, and creating opportunities for others to do the same. She invites beloved community into her art through sacred gatherings, collective art-making and pop-up public activations.
Her art is both balm and blueprint: mapping out pathways for the Black liberatory imagination and reviving recipes for collective care.
Jessicavaloris.com
Spring Equinox
Gather for Spring Equinox reflection and discussion via zoom with special guests:
-Kavita Gonsalves - Artist and activist whose research focuses on placemaking by marginalized groups through the use of technology.
-Agapetos Fa'aleava -Transhuman Saunter artist, filmmaker, story teller, researcher, activist Samoa/Australia.
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Wednesday, March 23, 7 PM EST
Winter Solstice
Join us for a synchronized grounding and light observance 10:58 EST, Northern Hemisphere from your location. Touch the ground and be still in the light. Share your intentions, if you choose to, by adding your light to the ground using the Meeting Ground app.
Gather for winter solstice reflection and discussion in the evening. Special guests Ọmọlará Williams McCallister (pronouns: o, love, beloved) and Queen Tuya Nu will join us as winter begins and the days slowly grow longer in the Northern Hemisphere.
O’s work is a call and response blend of sculpture, performance, installation, ritual, space holding, community building, surface design, adornment, word, sound, song, movement, moving images and photography. The roles that Ọmọlará steps into include: artist, educator, organizer, cultural strategist, conjurer. In all forms O’s work is immersive and interactive, it is co-authored by the people who inspire and encounter it.
Queen Tuya Nu is a spiritual mentor, author, artist, mystic.
December 21, 7 PM EST
email: meetinggroundprojects@gmail.com or click the button below to register for Zoom Link.
Fall Equinox
Meeting Ground invites you to collaborative space.
Share your ground.
Gather on the equinox for reflection and discussion. With special guests:
Margaret Boozer | Art Extension Service Co-Director and Co-Founder
Ariel Cavalcante Foster | Brazilian-American artist, curator, consultant, and cultural worker
Margot Lystra | Historian/theorist of landscape and the environment
Tatiana Morin | Urban Soil Institute Director and Co-Founder
Queen Tuya Nu | Spiritual mentor, author, artist, mystic
September 22, 7 PM EST
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Wherewithal Research Presentations
In a time of ongoing environmental, social, racial, and economic inequity, as well as limited physical human connection, can touching the ground recenter attention, help us overcome trauma, and change the way we perceive the world around us? What is the impact of each returning to themselves as collective action?