Generations Hike Nov. 15!

More than ever, it is crucial to gather in circles with each other and with the land. At this gathering, we will sit with fire, with trees, with fungi, listen to birdsong, give thanks to estuaries and ecotones, say hello to understory plants and bushes, and be curious on what emerges when we deeply attune with our ecology in ways rooted in Indigenous practices and knowledge.

Time: 10 - 2

Opening Circle: 10 am

Location: 518 Snuff Mill Rd Saunderstown, RI

Lunch & Tea provided!

GUEST EDUCATORS

k. funmilayo aileru (b. South Side, Providence, RI) is an artist and culture bearer who mostly works in digital media and indigenous craft. funmi’s work often envisions what Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty might look like beyond our current conditions. xi is committed to collaborating with people and communities who want to co-create a just, future world. With over a decade of experience in community-based facilitation and experiential design, funmi’s work focuses on ushering access to transformative art experiences, practicing accountability in design processes, and returning to Indigenous knowledge and technology.

funmi’s ancestors are Narragansett-Niantic peoples, the enslaved Africans of Turtle Island, and the Yoruba people of Southwestern Nigeria. xi works on xyr ancestral Narragansett homelands (so-called rhode island) where they live with their partner and child.

Dagotee. Shi Tonay Gooday-Ervin gunste. Ndee nishłe hi’kee Taino. Adanełt’e’i yushdezhi dischii bikoh. Hat’i’i itsah iyaa’aiye. Shitah hee hi’kee shimaa hee Aaron Gooday, Laura Garcia, hi’kee Toni Weeden. Hello my name is Tonay Gooday-Ervin and I am White Mountain Apache and Taino. My reservation is in Arizona but I have spent so much of my life loving and being in relation to the land here in southern New England. I have been practising arboriculture and urban forestry in a professional capacity for 6 years. I am a Massachusetts Certified Arborist and I am Tree Risk Assessment Qualified through the International Society of Arboriculture. I use my knowledge as an indigenous person and an arborist to educate and reshape people’s perception of nature and how we relate to it. I believe this knowledge is something we should all have access to, because fostering community happens from the ground up. I have lived in Providence for over a decade and helped create the PVD Tree Plan as a community member on the steering committee. I am currently the Community Planting and Engagement Coordinator for the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program.