Summer Catch Up 🌞

Summer Is Here

Or at least it feels like it some days. The weather this year has been mostly mild and we've had some bursts of beautiful, brilliant warm days too, and for that we are grateful. The spring was a busy season for us, especially as our very small collective was reduced to one person with other jobs and life commitments taking priority. Now we're all mostly back, so we're looking forward to wrapping up on projects and focusing on putting on in person events and working as a collective, which as this summer grows busier means autumn might just be our time! Anyway, read more below about job opportunities, updates and other things we wanted to share.

Land Skills Fair

This 21st to 24th July we are really excited to be co-curating the Social Justice Tent at this years Land Skills Fair. You can still get tickets here!
There's also a short-term job going and you can find out more information here too. 
We'll be running a BPOC only, land project dreaming session on the Friday and a short film marathon too. Come on down and say hi!

We've updated our website a lot recently with some extra help in making sure as many images as possible have alt-text. This is just part of the work in integrating accesbility but we still have a lot more we can do. We've finally published a little debrief by Marcus on last year's events, Anne:Seed at House of Annetta which you can read here. You can find out more about who we are, how we work and what our aims are on our new About Pages here. You can also watch some of the talks and online events we've spoken on here, and listen back to some of the podcasts we've been on more recently here. 

Events

Tower Hamlets Food Stories: Community Meal & Screening
The event is taking place next Saturday June 25th, 5-8pm and there will be childcare available, as well as translation support to and from Urdu. Use the link here to sign up and come share your food story with other local people, organisers and community groups around a fresh meal and short film screenings.
We are facilitating a space for people to come together and listen to each other's food stories. In a context of rising cost of food, how do we re-centre our agency and power to respond? From chicken shops, native fruits from our homelands and plant medicine queer magic walks, what stories of resilience and community connection can we tell with and through food? And most importantly, what is your story? And what can you learn from other people's?
We'll be screening three films from local film-makers Hussina Raja, Nurull Islam and Ella Frost

We recently got printed versions of our Resource for BPOC Growers and an online interactive version (which you can access here). With beautiful illustrations by Javie Huxley and a great design by Chikaboo Designs.

We have to platform and thank Jo Kamal, another queer BPOC grower and organiser who came on board to write up the resource pack. You can read it online here.
We will also bring free printed copies to all the events we attend this year.

What we are reading, listening & watching...

Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong by Claire Ratinon
Claire Ratinon has recently published her second book, a work of nature writing, storytelling and memoir, charting her first year moving to countryside and reflecting on her journey into food growing.

Elite Capture by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò 
A brilliant short book now out on Pluto Press, exploring how identity politics have been captured by the ruling elites and how we can reclaim it, building off the legacies of anti-racist and anti-colonial organising in the 20th century. 

Land For Who? Untelevised: The Podcast
Sam recently featured in this podcast series exploring how we build a land justice movement for our time.

Struggles For Sovereignty 
We've recently connected with this cool Indonesian project, they're producing podcasts, events and articles exploring land, food and climate justice and all the intersections in between.