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SUMMARY:Winter Solstice Walk
DESCRIPTION:Join Farrington Nature Linc as they celebrate the winter solstice. The winter solstice marks the exact moment when half of Earth is tilted the farthest away from the sun\, making it the longest night of the year. \nTogether use recycled materials to create your own lantern. We’ll go on a lantern-lit hike and enjoy hot cocoa. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/event/winter-solstice-walk/
LOCATION:Farrington Nature Linc\, 295 Cambridge Turnpike\, Lincoln\, MA\, 01773\, United States
CATEGORIES:Walks & Hikes
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SUMMARY:On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2024 Spring Session of On Belonging!  \nMarch 13th at 7 PM via Zoom | Erika Rumbley\, Co-Founder and Director of The New Garden Society\nErika Rumbley is a Co-Founder and Director of The New Garden Society (TNGS)\, an organization dedicated to training incarcerated students in the art and science of plants. For over a decade\, she has gardened alongside students in Greater Boston prison yards on Monday afternoons. Beyond TNGS\, Erika serves as the Director of Horticulture at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She works with a team of 7 horticulturists to care for the Gardner’s living collection and create perpetually blooming displays in the art museum’s central atrium. A greenhouse grower by trade\, Erika is passionate about broadening access to the gifts of the garden and the skills for ecologically sound growing.\nClick here to register. \nMarch 27th at 7 PM via Zoom | Doug Sutherland\, DEIB (Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion\, and Belonging) Consultant\, Keynote Speaker\, and Summer Camp professional\nDoug Sutherland (he/him) is a Black grandson\, son\, brother\, partner\, and father. In addition\, he works as a DEIB (Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion\, and Belonging) Consultant\, Keynote Speaker\, and Summer Camp professional. Since his first camping trip in 1987\, the outdoors has always been a passion. He has introduced the outdoors and environmental education to 3rd graders through high school and beyond. As an ECO-ACT Program Educator at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis MO. (a program original funded by the Desegregation Program)\, he brought together city and county high school students to teach leadership and environmental science to elementary school in the area. Moving to New Hampshire in June of 1999\, Doug continued to follow the path of working with children in the outdoors. Working at 6 different camps and outdoor education center\, Doug learned\, grew\, and honed his skills in the outdoors. As a Black person in rural New Hampshire\, “belonging” is an assumption for some and unattainable for others. An assumption of safety is not actually safe. Also\, it is only unattainable if you choose to not attain it. Doug’s mission as a father and DEIB Consultant is “To Stand Up\, To Speak Up\, and Do Something” and foster and nurture belonging in all spaces\, especially the outdoors.\nClick here to register. \nSpring 2024 sponsorship by:\nFreedom’s Way National Heritage Area\nThe Ogden Codman Trust
URL:https://freedomsway.org/event/on-belonging-in-outdoor-spaces-speaker-series/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces: José G. González
DESCRIPTION:Wayfinding and Belonging in the Outdoors\nMarch 29\, 2023 | 7 PM EST\nWe move as stories through narratives spaces as much as physical and cultural spaces. The outdoors\, as a construct grounded on the land\, is one we co-create\, and as the nation’s demographics continue to be more diverse\, we have the opportunity\, and responsibility\, to co-create an outdoors reflective of 2050\, rather than preserve one from 1950. And we can take learnings from nature to help us on this path. \nJosé G. González is the Founder of Latino Outdoors and Co-Founder of the Outdoorist Oath. He is a professional educator with training in the fields of education and conservation while engaging in different artistic endeavors with art and messaging—often exploring the intersection of the environment and culture. As a Partner in the Avarna Group and through his own consulting\, his work focuses on Equity & Inclusion frameworks and practices in the environmental\, outdoor\, and conservation fields. He is also an illustrator and science communicator. He received his B.A at the University of California\, Davis\, and his M.S at the University of\nMichigan School of Natural Resources & Environment. His teaching coursework was at the Bilingual\, Multicultural\, Education Department at Sacramento State. He serves as a Trustee for the National Outdoor Leadership School\, a Trustee for the National Recreation Foundation\, and Outdoor Industry Association Board Director\, among other such leadership volunteer roles. \nYou can connect with him on social media @JoseBilingue. Puns welcomed. \nClick here to register. \nWinter 2023 sponsorship by:\nFreedom’s Way National Heritage Area\nLincoln Cultural Center\nThe Ogden Codman Trust
URL:https://freedomsway.org/event/on-belonging-in-outdoor-spaces-jose-g-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces: Leah Penniman
DESCRIPTION:Black Earth Wisdom: Afro-Ecological Survival Strategies\nMarch 8\, 2023 | 7 PM EST\n“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\nThe 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.”\nEcological 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.\nIn 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.\nThose 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.” \nLeah Penniman (all pronouns) is a Black Kreyol farmer\, mother\, soil nerd\, author\, and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton\, NY. She co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2010 with the mission to end racism in the food system and reclaim our ancestral connection to land. As Co-ED and Farm Director\, Leah is part of a team that facilitates powerful food sovereignty programs – including farmer training for Black & Brown people\, a subsidized farm food distribution program for communities living under food apartheid\, and domestic and international organizing toward equity in the food system. Leah has been farming since 1996\, holds an MA in Science Education and a BA in Environmental Science and International Development from Clark University\, and is a member of clergy in West African Indigenous Orisa tradition. Leah trained at Many Hands Organic Farm\, Farm School MA\, and internationally with farmers in Ghana\, Haiti\, and Mexico. She also served as a high school biology and environmental science teacher for 17 years. The work of Leah and Soul Fire Farm has been recognized by the Soros Racial Justice Fellowship\, Fulbright Program\, Pritzker Environmental Genius Award\, Grist 50\, and James Beard Leadership Award\, among others. Her books\, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (2018) and Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists (2023) are love songs for the land and her people. \nClick here to register. \nWinter 2023 sponsorship by:\nFreedom’s Way National Heritage Area\nLincoln Cultural Center\nThe Ogden Codman Trust
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SUMMARY:On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces: Claudia Fox Tree
DESCRIPTION:Decolonizing Contributions by Indigenous People\nFebruary 22\, 2023 | 7 PM EST\nHow do we decolonize what we have learned about Native American achievements? We add important missing information and change the dominant narrative. This presentation will help connect the dots from understanding the land to understanding Indigenous People. We will move from the past to the present in learning how Indigenous ingenuity impacted language\, history\, industrialization\, and cultures around the world. \nClaudia Fox Tree is a professional educator and social justice activist who facilitates courses and workshops on having challenging conversations about diversity\, equity\, and social justice. In decolonizing equity conversations\, she centers Indigenous culture\, resistance\, and contributions\, while dismantling stereotypes and historical inaccuracies in what is now known as North and South America. She asks allies and co-conspirators to come on the journey with her. Claudia A. Fox Tree (she\, her) has been a middle school special education teacher for over 35 years. She earned her Master’s Degree in Education from Northeastern University and is currently a doctoral student at Lesley University. Since 2000\, Claudia has been a board member on the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness. Since 1998\, she has been a Massachusetts liaison for the United Confederation of Taino People. \nClick here to register. \nWinter 2023 sponsorship by:\nFreedom’s Way National Heritage Area\nLincoln Cultural Center\nThe Ogden Codman Trust
URL:https://freedomsway.org/event/on-belonging-in-outdoor-spaces-claudia-fox-tree/
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SUMMARY:Diversity Is More Than Color
DESCRIPTION:Join us for On Belonging In Outdoor Spaces\, a free series featuring speakers whose work is advancing efforts to strengthen belonging and connection between communities of color and the outdoors. \nAs a cancer survivor\, paraclimber\, outdoor enthusiast\, and a diversity\, equity\, and inclusion professional\, Kareemah Batts pulls from her lived experience and education to co-create a world where diversity is intersectional and accessible. Kareemah will walk us through her journey\, and demonstrate what happens when the narrative shifts from: “you don’t belong here” to “you belong here\, you exist\, and you matter.” \nSupport for the Spring 2022 series is provided by The Ogden Codman Trust. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/event/diversity-is-more-than-color/
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