Ecopoetics as Ritual, Part 1

How can we place ourselves and make space for ritual in the daily? In this practice, alma valdez-garcia leads us in an exploration of ritual-making within somatic movement to nourish self and nourish community—both human and more-than-human.

By reflecting on place and purpose, the group will create a safe space for making a portable altar that reflects self and surroundings. Each session will end with a poem and a writing prompt for reflection.

What’s Included:

• Sachets
• Dried herbs

What to Bring:

• Notebook and pen
• A special object you’d like to carry with you

About alma valdez-garcia

alma (they/them) is a trans herbalist, landworker & poet who is from northern New Mexico. They have resided in NYC going on 9 years and are forever committed to making connections between land being, surviving and dreaming. Their practice emerges from Audre Lorde’s question, “What words do we not have yet?,” and Natalie Diaz’s assertion that “the answer is Palestine.” They are committed to thinking and making work as survival writing, a form of community building and revolutionary articulating against the taxonomies of empire in which we, in different and overlapping ways, live.

About Field Meridians Nature School

FM Nature School is a project to co-create an arts-based urban ecology curriculum that reflects our neighborhood in Brooklyn—aiming to generate tools for resilience.

Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. Field Meridians is an extension of MOLD magazine, the critically acclaimed online and print magazine about design and the future of food.

Host or Publisher Field Meridians