📣 GOT PLANS THIS EARTH MONTH?
🌱 RECLAIM THE SACRED AT EARTH CHURCH!
🗓️ WHEN: Sunday 21st April 2024 (Earth Day-eve)
📍WHERE: Abney Park Chapel, the first non-denominational chapel in Europe.
🤷♀️ WHO: Anyone of any religion, faith or practice who wants to reclaim worship as resistance, as well as to experience the ‘third space’ that has been lost to many–especially young people.
Curated by @climateincolour, @clubs0l and @pngtips with the team at @abneyparkn16, EarthChurch is a space that offers a sacred moment of reflection. In a world of militarised capitalism and hyperconsumption, alienation from self, community and nature has become the norm.
Through this event we invite attendees to reclaim worship as resistance. We want to help people move past the trauma so commonly held in relation to religion and reconnect instead to the divinity inherent to the natural world as a practice of resisting extractivism and depletion. We hope to build capacity for the collective strength needed to continue the fight for liberation through re-nourishment, communal healing, joy and celebration.
Our event is split into three sessions that focus on the ‘holy trinity’ of connection: connection to self, others, and nature.
We are blessed to be welcoming three incredible facilitators across the day in three special ceremonies.
🌞Opening Ritual: Cellist Dan Gorelick (@dqgorelick) + Daoist tea meditation facillitator Hannah Yu-Pearson (@eatdrinkhui/@hannahxiaoyue)
🥗Communal Feasting: Community grower and educator
Alexandra Yellop (@earth.tenders).
🎶 Earth Listening: Yangqin artist and vocalist Mantawoman (@mantawoman_).