With full hearts we invite you to our Gratitude Celebration.
For the past five years this land has been our teacher, sanctuary, and gathering place. Together, we have tended the soil, planted seeds, harvested fruit and veggies, crafted medicines, and built bonds of community that have carried us through so much. This farm has been more than a place to grow food, it has been a place of healing, learning, and belonging.
We give thanks for the children who have run freely here, learning with us from the Earth and offering their laughter as medicine to the land.
We honor the families who came to share meals, stories, and prayers giving their time, energy, and love.
We remember every steward and organization who has stood beside us in collaboration pouring care into the soil and into our hearts.
Through grief and celebration this land has held us. It has offered us safety, reminded us of resilience, renewal, and the abundance of togetherness.
It has been an honor for each of us to be in relationship with this sacred ground and with all who have walked and are still walking this path with us.
Now, as we reach the closing of this season and our time here on the land, we will be gathering to celebrate!
We are excited to be in collaboration with Dr. Melchor Hall & Moving Potential for this final Gratitude Day!
Our theme: Dreaming Abolition.
11:30am Indigeneity and Acknowledging Land with Rosa Blumenfeld-Romero (of Reclaiming Indigeneity)
12pm Farm Blessing with Sista Noel of BAAD and Krista Speroni
1:30pm Lunch Catered by Char (of Beloved Kitchen)
2:30pm "Witness" dance performance (bridging incarceration and art)
3:30pm Discussion of "Witness" performance
4:30pm Gratitude Ceremony
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HELD AT MUMBET’S FREEDOM FARM & RACEBROOK BARN 864 SOUTH UNDERMOUNTAIN ROAD SHEFFIELD, MA 01257
If you are traveling from Boston, catch a ride here
Wellesley College's Anti-Carceral Co+Laboratory (ACC) is marking the first two years of its Mellon funded grant by celebrating abolitionist learning that extends beyond the classroom. Joining Mumbet's Freedom Farm for their Gratitude Celebration, the event will include opportunities to explore the relationship between land, farming, food, dance, and freedom.
Community Care
In an effort to invite more care to our spaces and honor our interconnected existence we ask that you stay home if you feel sick, suspect you have been exposed to COVID-19, Whooping Cough, Measles or any other contagious disease within the past 10 days, are recovering from said virus and/or live/share indoor space with someone who currently has any of the illnesses above in order to minimize spread.
We will have PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment ) available and will be outdoors for the entire event. Please test at home the day of the event. We will also have tests onsite for those who need.
