Events
Reparations in Public Space
In partnership with Creative Urban Alchemy please join us in collectively reimagining spaces of trauma in NYC in order to transform the lands into healing spaces for the Black community. On Friday, October 20th we begin with a trauma-informed conversation, followed by a community-engaged design workshop using the Midjourney AI program to develop imaginary ideas for the Flatbush African Burial Ground in central Brooklyn. Here we will make sanctuary.
Register and learn more about the event here.
The Black Exhale NEST Gallery Exhibition
The Black Exhale NEST will be moved into the Weeksville Heritage Center gallery space for the remainder of June.
When not being used for private portrait and interview sessions for participants, the Black Exhale NEST will be open for public viewing tours, along with projected images and narratives in the gallery.
Come to learn more about the sanctuary space of Weeksville, and how we continue to create sanctuary in a paradigm that is still learning how to love the Black body. Come to embrace your own fugitivity as part of this liberation work. Come to understand why even the trees are a necessary part of our collective healing. Come to practice the distinction between witness, voyeurism, gaze and the other ways of looking.
Share your thoughts in a survey here.
The Black Exhale NEST Community Contribution Day at Weeksville
Community members are invited to make a contribution and offering to the Black Exhale NEST and the collective creation of sanctuary. There will be branches on-site to add to the BE Nest, or you can feel free to bring a flower, a prayer, a whisper, or a song.
Our Community Contribution Day will also include sound healing and a shamanic drum journey to invoke and receive the blessings and love of the ancestors as we prepare the Black Exhale NEST to witness, hold and transmute our collective ancestral wounds.
Building the Black Exhale NEST at Weeksville
The Black Exhale Nest build begins at Weeksville Heritage Center, located at 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, with youth participation from Recess Art’s Assembly program. 11am - 2pm each day.
Using organic materials gathered from Hudson, NY, and a former slave plantation in Virginia, artist and nest builder Debbie Baxter will be collectively, and in community, creating sanctuary space to support healing the Black body.
Black Bodies Heal
This meditation gathering isn’t solely about finding your calm or being silent enough to hear the birds chirping. This gathering is about...
creating sanctuary for the Black body so that we can practice fully surrendering to a future full of possibilities!
sharpening intentions, elevating emotions, and getting beyond your exquisite body so that you can heal your body.
Black folk stepping into the supernatural, individually, and as a collective.
creating a melanated collective energy that can amplify your internal experience to be greater than any external environment!