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We invite you to participate in a monthly convening of collective exploration, experimentation and exchange around practices of interspecies collaboration,
attunement with the
more-than-human world,
becoming wholly holobiont,
and other earthly and spiritual interfaces for inter-being.

Our next gathering, featuring:
a Garden Tending Meditation,
a Medicine of Place Tea Ritual,
a Return Address Writing Practice,
Deep Ecology Mapping,
and 🐝 BEE BOP 🐝
will take place onSaturday October 12th, 2024
from 10:45am ~ 1pmish
at a native plant garden near the historic site of Huachongna
"Mid-city, Los Angeles"Please RSVP below
to receive further details!

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Resistance as Resilience
September 13, 2024An LA Climate Week panel with Brenna Cheyney, Gayatri Sehgal, Yvette Baker, Unique Vance, Laurel Tamayo and Charlotte Nyugễn, discussing climate mental health, narrative, food security, interspecies liberation, and cross-channel solidarity—sustaining our hope for solar punk futures.Entomology Walk
August 10, 2024An insect observation walk at the Madrona Marsh Preserve, lead by Emma C Baretto.Myxomycelial Earth Month
April 1-28, 2024A curated calendar of interspecies and ecocentric Earth Month events experienced individually and collectively, followed by a physarum polycephalum (slime mold) informed Digestion Gathering on the coastline where distributed experiences were sporulated through zine-making practice and active listening discussion.Sympoetic Ecofabulatory Culture Swap
March 24, 2024A gift economy swap meet for all types of cultures: books, zines, poetry, seeds, SCOBYs, clothes, liquid cultures of fungi, insect larvae, microscopes, undersea foraging techniques, wisdom from forays, garden herb seasoned popcorn, lamps made from bicycle repair waste, all the citrus fruits, and beyond!Multispecies Attunement In Urban Ecologies
February 27, 2024A series of exercises for noticing and prompting relationship-making across many scales with our more-than-human kin in urban environments. Hosted along a concrete-enclosed portion of Paayme Paxaayt, also known as the Los Angeles River, and facilitated by Shanhuan Manton, interspecies inquirer.Dissolving Species Borders
Through Somatic Sketching
December 28, 2023
A playshop in the forest with a guided somatic sketch exercise designed to shift our perception of more-than-human beings and their environments, away from objectification and taxonomy, inviting us to be in receptive presence. Facilitated by Doğa Tekin, artist, musician, mycology convergence host, and PhD student in Linguistic Anthropology.Collective Exploration of Interbeing
October 1, 2023
A sensory walk through a canyon where native and displaced species thrive in queer assemblages, with a guided poetry practice for addressing our more-than-human kin. Facilitated by ecocentric creative Brenna Cheyney, with flower essence & guided meditation by Telegraph Weed and Shanhuan Manton.