Deconstructing the Boundaries 2023
A Future of Land and Food Resilience
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens | July 22, 2023
On Saturday, July 22nd, Indigo Arts Alliance (IAA) and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) will present “Deconstructing the Boundaries: A Future of Land and Food Resilience,” the first symposium in a multi-year collaboration between the two organizations. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has partnered with Indigo Arts Alliance to present a multi-year project that will center Black, Brown, Indigenous relationships with the land. The programmatic series will launch with an all day public symposia entitled Deconstructing the Boundaries: A Future of Land & Food Resilience. Indigo Arts Alliance will share perspectives from a variety of thought leaders on how Black and Brown communities have always held spiritual, traditional and cultural relationships to the land. Conversations, demonstrations and interactive workshops will prioritize experiences from multidisciplinary artists and cultural workers. This initiative aims to create intergenerational pathways for insight and wisdom to flow in all directions.
Through this symposium we hope to explore and address these three key questions:
How do we acknowledge and appreciate the ways in which African, Brown, and Indigenous cultural and social systems, as well as spirituality exist outside of settler colonial paradigms?
How do we evolve our personal, communal, and institutional relationships with land ownership and stewardship?
How do we address and heal the deep distrust that has taken root in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities?
The Land on Which We Stand
What is our responsibility to the land on which we stand? How are we accountable to a past that continues to define our present and our presence? Can we break the cycle of dis-ease that informs our relationship to the earth and each other?
