During this session we’ll take a walk with cotton plants as we discuss the and reflect on their relationship to protection crafts, amulets, and resistance in the African diasporic regions particularly in the Southern US. 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.

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*CURE: Rituals of Protection, combines the CURE and Rituals of Protection projects, with support from Deep Routes, Mumbet’s Freedom Farm and local sponsors. Part 3 will 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 this opening session to be a safer space for people of Black/African and Indigenous diasporas to engage with it. Please register with that in mind. 🌿