Number of participants: 8
Location: Learning Grounds garden @ de Zandweg allotment garden, Rotterdam South
Date: When the bees have awakened and feasting on the flowering plum tree
Duration: 10:00 – 14:30 (10 am – 2:30 pm)
Ingredients: decomposed nettle buried last October, ceramic pot, straw, mud, compost, used fence wire, bamboo posts, winter water, potatoes, a yellow plum tree in full bloom, wild garlic freshly harvested, a savoury meal made from last year’s harvest, a text on embodied activism, clouds, rain drizzle, intermittent sunshine, a swarm of bees, a breathing practice for metabolising vibration with the awakening hive
Soft Score
10:00 Welcome and Grounding
10:30 Unearthing
Dig up a clay urn buried last October, filled with decomposed nettles.
Distribute the nettle mixture around the garden, inoculating the soil.
11:00 Transfiguration and Renewal
Build a potato tower from used soil, fencing and straw.
Plant new potatoes as an offering for renewal.
Toast the potatoes with winter water.
12:30 Replenishment
Share a meal of pumpkin soup, using harvest pumpkin from the previous season.
Enjoy a wild garlic pesto on homemade bread.
13:30 Embody Activism
Sit underneath the blossoming plum tree where the bees are gathering.
Read from Rae Johnson’s Embodied Activism.
14:15 Bee tree breath
Together do a bee breath with the bees, to metabolise vibration with the awakening hive and for practising collective resonance.
14:30 End
