Kinship with Water
Illustration by Nai’a Lewis
Let’s deepen our practices and sacred responsibility to our mutual relationship with water.
APRIL 17 – MAY 29, 2024
Join us and our friends at Collective Acceleration for four 90-minute virtual sessions with vibrant storytellers and renowned artists every two weeks in a facilitated space to share ritual with elders and land-centered leaders, deepen our practice and relationship with water, inspire collective strategies and actions toward protecting and nourishing our water in and outside of our homeplaces.
More info below.
How might we be more like water?
How might that inspire us toward love in action to protect and nourish water? What if we collectively loved and respected water as our wise elder, as the oldest of our storytellers, as the keeper of our collective memory, as the multitudes who hold the world together, as the one who teaches us how to nourish, and to love?
Ready to immerse in conversations, and practices towards protecting and nourishing our waters?
Join us for these 90-minute virtual sessions with elders, land-centered leaders, and creatives at 7am HST/ 10am PT/ 11am MT/ 12pm CT/ 1pm ET.
Contributing artists Rose B. Simpson, Cori Nakamura Lin, and Aisha Shillingford , will also join sessions and create an art piece in response to the stories.
Between sessions, we’ll root in specific practices designed to deepen our relationships with the waters that nourish us.
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With Elder Kathy “Wan Povi” Sanchez, Tewa Women United, and Elder Maria Morin McCoy, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Water is our oldest elder, the longest story, the long arc of our collective memory. How can we love and respect water as our wise elder? What does water have to teach us? -
With Rebeka Ndosi, Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary and Malia Collins, writer and storyteller
Stillness in water, water that both holds and is held. How might we honor the water inside of us and around us? How could that deepen our practice and attention? -
With Tannia Esparza, GiraSol Descendants, Omar Brownson, Los Angeles Community Garden Council, and Jovida Ross, Food Culture Collective
How might we change our relationship with the source of water in our home places? How might this inspire our own relationship with lineage? How do we connect with source, with what feeds us? -
With Norma Ryūkō Kawelokū Wong Roshi, Judith LeBlanc, a citizen of the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma and Executive Director of the Native Organizers Alliance, and Na’alehu Anthony, storyteller, documentary filmmaker, and policy narrator
How might we move like water? In coming to the defense of water, how do we unintentionally stop flowing? How might that inspire us toward love in action to protect and nourish water collectively? What does governance look like when we center water?
A Kinship with Water guide and a Kinship with Water t-shirt will be mailed to all participants! Recordings of all sessions will also be sent to registrants.
Art by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman