Making Ground: Dialogues

This Fall, A.P.E. is thrilled to launch Making Ground: Dialogues, a series of learning engagements centered around collective study and reparative relationships to place. The inaugural series will be focused on natural histories and ecologies of so-called Northampton and the wider Connecticut River Valley, with four gatherings led by artists whose creative practices intersect with ecology, decolonization, social exchange, and interspecies investigations. Embedded in the varied offerings are invitations to consider interconnection with the more than human world, land remediation in relationship to colonial trauma, and how historical and land-based studies might lead us to embodied, creative, grounded, and imaginative responses in the present toward more liberated futures.

 

Conceived of as an opportunity to repeatedly gather together in creative, collective learning, we encourage you to consider registering for as many offerings as you are able. Join the cohort of fellow community members as we explore, expand, and reimagine our relationship and responsibilities to this place. All offerings are FREE, but registration is required.

In addition to these gatherings, A.P.E. will host collectively-led study groups each Tuesday evening from 6-8pm in the Workroom at 33 Hawley for the run of the series for further discussion of the materials, themes, and practices engaged.

 

Fall schedule:

• JuPong Lin: Sunday, September 29, 1-4pm, Bramble Hill Farm
• Christa Donner: Sunday, October 13, 1-4pm, 33 Hawley + Terrace Trails
• Gina Siepel: Sunday, October 27, 1-4pm, Bramble Hill Farm
• Yanira Castro: Friday, November 1, 6pm, 33 Hawley