CURE: Rituals of Protection - Transforming Our Relationship with Cotton

Join us alongside cotton plants + fibers as we reflect on the plant's relationship to protection crafts, amulets, and resistance.
About this Event

CURE: Rituals of Protection is a collaborative series (combining the CURE and Rituals of Protection projects) led by land stewards and artists who have ancestral relationships to the cotton plant.

During this session, Transforming Our Relationship to Cotton, we’ll take a walk with cotton plants as we discuss and reflect on their relationship to protection crafts, amulets, and resistance in African diasporic regions particularly in the Southern US. We’ll also discuss how those relationships connect with Indigenous cotton stewards + artisans across the globe.

Then we’ll get into hands-on demonstrations and practice of transforming cotton into a fiber arts material via harvest, ginning, spinning, and seed saving.

ALSO We’re excited to welcome special guest, artist, and educator in joining us (Ashni + Maya) for this session!

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* CURE: Rituals of Protection, combines the CURE and Rituals of Protection projects, with support from , and local sponsors. The closing session will also occur in Brooklyn NY on September 5th 2026.

• CURE (Cultivating Understanding and Restoring the Earth) is a Mumbet’s Freedom Farm project intending to nourish and center the experiences of those who identify as Black, Indigenous, as well as anyone with an inherited history of colonization in the Americas.
• Rituals of Protection is an artist-led project of cultural remembrance, reconnection, and reflection for people within the Southern African-American diaspora. This interdisciplinary offering is intended to support community members in learning about and engaging with the histories of crafting with plants as a means of protection and resistance in the Southern U.S.

🌿Please NOTE: All of our events center those within Afro-Indigenous diasporas, and cotton is one with a particularly painful (albiet relatively recent) history and we want these sessions to be a safer space for people of Black/African and Indigenous diasporas to engage with it. Please register with that in mind. 🌿