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  1. SRĐA

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  2. Wayne Winston

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  3. Faith Robinson

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  4. Fei Li

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  5. Chinatown Art Brigade

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    Here to Stay


    As 2019 Artists-in-Residence, collective Chinatown Art Brigade launched Here to Stay: Housing for the People Mapping Project. A collaborative, critical mapping project centering on place-keeping efforts in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, Here to Stay aimed to protect and preserve these historic neighborhoods.
  6. Walis Johnson

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  7. Natalia Guzmán Solano

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  8. Mon M.

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  9. Maya K. Jeffereis

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  10. Madjeen Issac

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  11. Jing Dong

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  12. Jessica Cortez

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  13. Duneska Suannette Michel

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  14. Brianna Harlan

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    AfroPeach


    Rochelle Jamila Wilbun and Ogemdi Ude are creating AfroPeach, a series of online dance workshops and resources for Black postpartum people in Brooklyn. The project uniquely blends movement healing practices and birth work to provide holistic care for Black people after pregnancy and birth. Offerings focus on healing from the physical, mental, and emotional effects of pregnancy and birth, creatively processing birth stories, and building somatic relationships between new parents/caretakers and their babies. AfroPeach aims to support Black bleeding and birthing people to feel empowered and sacred in their bodies, and to decrease postpartum health disparities by fostering a supportive wellness space.
  15. Kendra J. Ross

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    The Sankofa Residency


    The Sankofa Residency is a multi-phase project rooted in the history of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and an Afrofuturist imagining of Bed-Stuy moving forward. Inspired by the Ghanian concept of Sankofa—looking backward in order to move forward—artist Kendra J. Ross and community members will use research, oral history, and collaborative imagining to facilitate a plan for local residents, businesses, and stakeholders to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic in a place of healing, thriving, and progress. The project will culminate in a series of interdisciplinary, immersive dance experiences, taking place on site at local partnering businesses and organizations. The performance experience will transform the space into a living gallery of the past, present, and future of the site, situated in the context of the journey of Bed-Stuy.
  16. Jamel Burgess

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    Archiving East New York


    Archiving East New York uses community archival practices to explore the significance of representation and highlight counter narratives about communities of color in East New York, Brooklyn. Jamel Burgess and community members will produce an accessible digital platform combining oral histories with multimedia elements—including video, images, and ephemera—to educate East New York residents and the general public about the Brooklyn neighborhood.
    Music in East New York, United Community Centers Fair, circa 1970. Image provided by Neal Last.
  17. Ibi Ibrahim

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    Reclaiming Realities: The Yemeni American Experience


    Yemeni American artist Ibi Ibrahim will create Reclaiming Realities, a photo and oral history project documenting the image and experiences of Yemeni Americans in their own environments. Ibrahim will photograph and interview Yemeni bodega workers across New York City, creating space for each subject to tell their personal story of coming to America and reclaiming their own reality.
  18. Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

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    Reflective Urbanisms: Mapping NY Chinatown


    Reflective Urbanisms: Mapping NY Chinatown is a storytelling project by Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong about Manhattan’s Chinatown community, as told through its built environment. The project will map Chinatown through changes the buildings and streets have undergone over time, and through community stories about the activities that took place there.
    Artist Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong's "Constellation" installation creates a pavilion on Chinatown's Doyer Street.
  19. Gisela Zuniga

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  20. Ariana Faye Allensworth

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    Staying Power: A Participatory Storytelling Project


    Staying Power is a collaborative, multidisciplinary art and research project that celebrates the people’s history of New York City public housing. The project offers counter-narratives to the stereotypes surrounding the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) through the lens of residents raised and living in NYCHA.

    Ariana’s Resources

    The LP Reading Group – February 2022 – Reparations, Pandemic, and Power

  21. Musicians Teachers Organists Branch of National Association of Negro Musicians

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    About the Musicians Teachers Organists Branch of National Association of Negro Musicians 

    Chartered in 1931 and based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the mission of MuTeOr is today as it was then: to preserve America’s original music, the Negro Spiritual, Jazz, and Blues; and to promote youth, collegians, and emerging musicians of color.

    Project

    With a panel of musical historians and performers, the program will bring together a multigenerational audience to enjoy the music of the ancestors; learn how Bedford-Stuyvesant churches and choirs caused the genre to flourish; and how the strategic, creative use of language transcends time, generations, and genres to express struggle, protest, overcoming and joy.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicants: Kathleen Grosvenor, Patricia F. Robinson, Lynnette Brinson

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  22. Math Through Art Inc

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    Math & Art Learning Pods

    Math Through Art is providing math and art learning pods to participants of all ages that will be provided in the local Bedford Stuyvesant area. We intend to develop confidence in their understanding of mathematics through creative activities that provide mathematical instruction such as pattern printing paintings, jewelry making and more. 

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Angela Bell 

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  23. Marienne Thomas

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    About Marienne

    Marienne Thomas, artistically known as Yen, is a Visual artist/portraitist and the Director of Youth Programs at Bailey’s Cafe. I have been establishing myself an artist for the past 3 years and looking to develop more meaningful artwork that impacts our community and create conservations.

    As Quiet As It’s Kept: the Story Continues–The Portrait Project

    AQAIK: The Story Continues-The Portrait Project will focus on the residents of Jackie Robinson/Fulton Housing complex and Brevoort Public Houses to bring visibility, both through word and image, to people who are often treated as if they were invisible. This next iteration of AQAIK comes out of a larger community-based movement to offer an alternative to the violence that continues to erupt in the neighborhood. Through this project and others we aim to bring positive, life affirming activities to those who may not feel that they are normally included.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Marienne Thomas

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  24. The Garden Abolitionist Bookstore & Community Well

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    The Garden Abolitionist Bookstore & Community Well

    The Garden is a pop-up abolitionist bookstore and community space that exists to reignite and nurture our collective imagination in service of Black Liberation. We connect our neighborhood (Bed-Stuy) with resources and literature that has been meaningful for us on our political journeys and engage the community in different projects and events that encourage action and solidarity among Black people in the neighborhood.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Joseph Capehart

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  25. Self-Care Warriors

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    About Self-Care Warriors

    Self-Care Warriors are the volunteer care team of EmergeSoul well-being studio in Bed-Stuy. The SC Warriors consist of yoga teachers and other wellness practitioners who want to ensure that wellness services are available and accessible by offering free or donation based services in underserved urban communities.

    Meditation, Art, Storytelling for Older Adults

    MAS is a safe virtual space where older adults can engage in the healing arts to cultivate a practice of being good to themselves. Through the use of meditation, arts, and storytelling older adults will use these mediums to explore historical and immediate traumas deeply rooted in ones subconscious mind and body. Through the healing arts older adults will re-imagine what is good, restore the best parts of themselves and recreate a sense of being. This project will emerge into a quilt story circle. MAS is about creative expression to usher in healing to live more fulfilled.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicants: Tameeka Ford and Elvira Clayton Art

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  26. The United Order of Tents Eastern District #3

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    About The United Order of Tents Eastern District #3

    The United Order of Tents Eastern District #3 is the oldest Black women’s fraternal organization in the US. Established in the 19th century, The United Order of Tents served the cause of abolition, originally providing aid to those escaping slavery via the Underground Railroad. As an early mutual aid society, they also provided food, shelter, clothing, nursing care, and proper burial to those in need. Now, their current mission is to solve local issues and serve their community, especially elderly neighbors, through the bonds of sisterhood.

    Tea with the Tents: Creating Community through History and Art

    Tea with the Tents is a one-day event for the community of Bedford-Stuyvesant to meet members of the United Order of Tents Eastern District #3, the oldest Black women’s benevolent society in the US, learn about their long and vibrant history, their past, and present mutual aid work and participate in a community art project documenting these stories for future generations. Additionally, audience members learn how to become a member of the United Order of Tents Eastern District #3 or a Friend of the Tents. This event hopes to connect the past to the present to build for the future.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Kelly M Britt

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  27. Str8OuttaBklynMedia

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    About Str8OuttaBklynMedia

    Str8OuttaBklynMedia is an organization focused on implementing youth and artist development initiatives. Through vocational training and artistic programs we create safe spaces for our youth and community artists to thrive.

    The Artist and Repertoire Show

    The Artist and Repertoire Show is a performance art showcase for Black and brown youth in Brooklyn. It is a safe space for them to thrive creatively while receiving necessary life skills. Young artists who are rising stars in Brooklyn, and artists who are performing for the first time will be featured. There will also be a video game tournament and open video game portion of the event for youth to play at their leisure. We will have professionals to provide GED/educational services, gang intervention and prevention services, legal aid, and employment opportunities. Raffles Prizes and a fresh vegetable giveaway will also be part of the day’s activities. 

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Johari James

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  28. Fred Jones Memorial Bicycle Ride

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    The inaugural edition of the Fred Jones Memorial Bicycle Ride (FJMR) on Sunday, August 29, 2021, is being presented in memory of the late Manifred Jones, to celebrate his life and service to the cycling and Bedford-Stuyvesant communities. Additionally, we pay our respects to all our neighbors we lost to COVID-19. This free 35-mile bike ride, inspired by the late Fred Jones personal training rides, takes cyclists through Brooklyn and Queens mostly following bike lanes, greenways and bike friendly streets. We invite everyone everywhere to help us celebrate our city’s reopening with a fun day of movement and re-engagement with our communities. 

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Owens Ridges Jr. 

    Collaborators: Wentworth Price, Sirocco Wilson, James Durrah

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  29. Bed Stuy Clothes Swap

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    Bed Stuy Clothes Swap is a community based safety net for Bed-Stuy residents. We provide clothing alternatives that move against the grain of capitalistic systems that unevenly take from and kill our community. As a mindful movement that centers on the sustainable wellbeing of people of color, we respond to the localized impacts of hyper-consumerism, fast fashion, gentrification and lack of equitable clothing alternatives in Bed Stuy. Our praxis is a blend of communal based sharing, exchanging and donating habits.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Akiera Xavina Charles

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  30. The Sankofa Residency

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    The Sankofa Residency is a multi-phase project that is both rooted in the history of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY, and an afro-futurist imagining of BedStuy moving forward. Taking the Ghanian concept of Sankofa-looking backwards in order to move forward-this project uses research, oral history, and collaborative imagining to facilitate a plan for residents, businesses, and stakeholders to emerge from a place of healing, thriving, and progress. Each iteration culminates in an interdisciplinary immersive dance experience that transforms a space into a gallery of the past, present and future of that location placed in the context of the journey of BedStuy.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Kendra J. Ross

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    www.thekendrajross.com /// @thekendrajross

  31. We Are Here: As Quiet As It’s Kept

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    Since the Great Migration, Black people have built a vibrant and thriving mecca in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, making it an icon of community, culture, and resistance. But the neighborhood is changing. Gentrification, racist housing policies, and systemic oppression have forced longtime Bed-Stuy residents and business owners out of the neighborhood, as a younger, predominately white, population moves in. Black residents must reconcile these changes with their sense of belonging on the blocks they built.

    “We Are Here” is a celebration of Bedford-Stuyvesant’s rich cultural legacy—a testament to its past and present. The project, originally curated as part of Bailey’s Cafe’s As Quiet As It’s Kept centers images and stories of long-time Bed-Stuy residents, cementing their place as neighborhood icons in the name of resilience and permanence.

    “We Are Here” features photographs by Robyn Twomey with interviews by Monica L. Williams, artistic director of As Quiet As It’s Kept, is culturally produced by Pia Monique Murray, and supported by Bailey’s Cafe. 

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Pia Monique Murray

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  32. HER Power

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    HER Power is a women’s empowerment project developed by three community advocates who saw an immediate need for resources that promote holistic well being across NYCHA developments. When we say holistic, not only do we mean mind, body, soul but ways to become liberated from systemic stressors such as violence, lack of resources, and impacts of COVID-19. HER Power aims to build power and community among other female NYCHA residents. Through the engagement of these practices, we hope to find ways to cope with trauma so that we as women can move towards individual and community healing, become empowered.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Annastesia Harris

     

  33. HQ Tennis

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    Open Court at HQ Tennis is a summer series of free, weekly, 2-hours open court time at Jackie Robinson Tennis Courts. The purpose of HQ community classes is to bring the community together, to create a safe zone and support the work being done toward ending gun violence, and grow the game of tennis at Jackie Robinson Tennis courts. These community classes are catered to the historic Black and Brown residents of the Jackie Robinson community. 

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Frances Ferdinand

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  34. Patchen Community Square Garden

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    Patchen Community Square Garden invites neighbors to participate in the Unity Mural Project. Participants can submit artwork, an original song, poetry, or a favorite recipe related to creating unity in the beautiful neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Marshalla Ramos-Inde

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    www.patchensquare.com /// @patchensquare

  35. KowTeff School of African Dance

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    KowTeff presented their 11th Annual Juneteenth Celebration and 30th anniversary as a cultural arts institution in the community. The event was held on Saturday, June 19th, 2021 from 11AM-10PM in a hybrid fashion. Participants could take part in activities virtually and in-person at Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Akilah Clarke

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    www.kowteff.org /// @KowTeffafricandance

  36. Herkimer Street Stoop Interview

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    “Herkimer Street Stoop Interview” is a social engagement community art project with long-term Bed-Stuy residents. I set up the camera and a microphone on my stoop and interview the community members outdoors. I record videos/audios while they were talking about their life and connection to this neighborhood and take portraits.

    At the end, I plan to make an outdoor public exhibition in Bed-Stuy. I believe the final public exhibitions and presentations would make the subjects into the spotlight.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Hidemi Takagi

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  37. Da Cypher: A Night of Art, Community, and Celebration

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    Da Cypher’s hood art show theme centers “Unity & Remembering,” and what that means for Black and Brown artists. Our show explores the complex narratives that come out of NYCHA/low-income/working-class communities.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Arabia Q. Simeon

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    www.dacypherbk.com /// @dacypher.bk
    #InspireDaYouth

     

  38. Garden in the Wake

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    Garden in the Wake is a community garden in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn centering Black queer, trans, non-binary, genderqueer, and agender folks who are looking to grow and cultivate food and medicinal herbs. We hope that this space will be multipurpose in its function, with the larger aim to create and strengthen support networks for these communities, especially those who are disproportionately impacted by food apartheid and disabled. The garden space will be accessible, secure, and focus on the needs of Black queer and trans folks who are seeking a haven, for community building, skill sharing, art making, food cultivation, medicine making, holistic wellness practices such as tincture making, and political education grounded in a Black radical tradition.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Morgan Bromell
    Project Collaborator: Justina Walker

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  39. Meditating for Black Lives

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    Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund Recipient

    Meditating for Black Lives believes in raising the collective consciousness about our shared struggle for human rights starting with each community member. Awareness and understanding of our own vulnerabilities and unique positions, inspires us to care for, and accept, the multiplicities inherent in us all.

    Meditating for Black Lives uses principles and practices of various meditation traditions to support efforts in healing from racial and systemic oppressions. It is a collective aspiration to co-create a coexistence free from the mental chains that inhibit the full expression of our humanity.

    Together, we sit in contemplation to process our absorbed traumas and breathe for the lives of Black, Indigenous, brown—and all persecuted and oppressed—communities of the world.

    Create & Connect Fund Applicant: Brittany Micek

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  40. Gabriel G. Torres

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    Haus of Dust


    Gabriel G. Torres and collaborators are facilitating Haus of Dust, a three-pronged project to support and educate Queer Latinx communities struggling with substance use in the Lower East Side. Working alongside social workers, neuroscientists, and queer community leaders, Haus of Dust encompasses an online resource platform, a garden installation, and an immersive theatrical experience.
  41. Blaise Sparda

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    DreamSeed Oracle Tarot Deck


    Created by Malanya Graham, Maliika Nia-Imani, and Blaise Sparda (DreamSeed Collective), The DreamSeed Oracle tarot deck will offer guidance and affirmations to those who have limited access to these tools. The project was born out of the idea that generational healing is co-created within community. Black and POC communities have deep ties to tarot but are rarely represented in their imagery. Inspired by Black and POC queer ancestors and holistic wellness practices, this deck aspires to be a symbol of the artists’ drive to thrive in the midst of violence. The artists will host virtual conversations on tarot’s relevance to generational, collective healing and lead workshops on design, self-portraiture, and sacred adornment to inform the creation of the deck.
  42. Maliika Nia-Imani

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    DreamSeed Oracle Tarot Deck


    Created by Malanya Graham, Maliika Nia-Imani, and Blaise Sparda (DreamSeed Collective), The DreamSeed Oracle tarot deck will offer guidance and affirmations to those who have limited access to these tools. The project was born out of the idea that generational healing is co-created within community. Black and POC communities have deep ties to tarot but are rarely represented in their imagery. Inspired by Black and POC queer ancestors and holistic wellness practices, this deck aspires to be a symbol of the artists’ drive to thrive in the midst of violence. The artists will host virtual conversations on tarot’s relevance to generational, collective healing and lead workshops on design, self-portraiture, and sacred adornment to inform the creation of the deck.
  43. Malanya Graham

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    DreamSeed Oracle Tarot Deck


    Created by Malanya Graham, Maliika Nia-Imani, and Blaise Sparda (DreamSeed Collective), The DreamSeed Oracle tarot deck will offer guidance and affirmations to those who have limited access to these tools. The project was born out of the idea that generational healing is co-created within community. Black and POC communities have deep ties to tarot but are rarely represented in their imagery. Inspired by Black and POC queer ancestors and holistic wellness practices, this deck aspires to be a symbol of the artists’ drive to thrive in the midst of violence. The artists will host virtual conversations on tarot’s relevance to generational, collective healing and lead workshops on design, self-portraiture, and sacred adornment to inform the creation of the deck.