Number of participants: 10
Location: Learning Grounds garden @ de Zandweg allotment garden, Rotterdam South
Date: June 21st-22nd, 2024
Duration: 17:00 – 10:00 (5 pm – 10 am)
Co-conspirators: The SPIN Collective
Ingredients: strawberry moon, molasses, fresh oregano, rain water, worm castings, compost, sea salt, oats, fire, wood, flour, stories about collective solidarity, world building, and global struggles for liberation and healing, a stick for stirring, strawberry plants, freshly harvested garlic, foraged forest soil grabbed by the handful, slugs, plant seedlings, handmade paper, writing materials, darkness, silence, the deafening roar of awakening birds, handmade quilts, pillows
Soft Score
17:00 Beginning, Grounding and Intro
17.30 Harvest – Renewal – Cycle
Harvest potatoes and garlic.
Plant a baby pumpkin where the garlic used to be.
Plant beans next to the corn.
18:30 Cooking a Collective Meal
Prepare a dish with the harvested garlic and harvested potatoes.
20:00 Making a Fire
Make a fire and eat together around the fire.
Take a moment to write to and reflect on what needs letting go.
Add to the fire what you have just written.
Jump over the fire.
22:00 Perambulatory Circle Forest Walk under the Strawberry Moon
Embark on a night walk in the middle of the forest in the park next to the garden.
Walk in a circle around the circumference of forest.
Pick up handfuls of forest soil.
Greet the strawberry moon.
22:30 Making Tea
Preparing a microbial tea from Yeori’s grandmother’s recipe.
Add ingredients collected from the surroundings (forest soil, worm compost, comfrey liquid, rain water).
While stirring the mixture, read out poems, songs, texts, and letters that tell tales of collective solidarity, world building, and global struggles for liberation and healing.
Drink tea prepared from freshly harvested oregano.
Eat cake using plums gifted from the neighbours garden.
1:30 Replenish
Add the microbial tea to the baby plants in the garden
2:00 Building a Space to Rest, Dream and Digest
Build a space to rest, dream, and digest stories of liberation and healing.
8:00 Awakening
Awaken to the roar of awakening birds.
Sing praise to Ali’s tomato babies.
Share a breakfast and reflections from the evening.
10:00 Outro
