(UN)CONTROLLED BURN

: A traditional Indigenous land management practice of intentionally starting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material. A strategy used for time immemorial, a controlled or prescribed burn involves setting aflame areas for ceremonial purposes and for the health of particular plant and animal lifeforms.

Hosted in three parts, (UN)CONTROLLED BURN is a free communally-facilitated and hands-on workshop series focused on food and land sovereignty. Diving into ancestral herbalism and medicines, wheat geopolitics, Indigenous land stewardship, breadbaskets, coffee farming and agri-histories on Turtle Island, and The Global South, meet us at It's Ok* Studios to dialogue through our need to collectively burn, to collectively build.

SESSIONS

  • (UN) CONTROLLED BURN: SOUKAYNA (they/she)

    Ancestral Medicines, Recipe Archiving and Collective Memory.

    Thursday November 21st 2024
    6:30pm - 9:00pm

  • (UN)CONTROLLED BURN: LOLA MARCHESE (SHE/THEY)

    Breadbaskets, Food Militarization and Wheat Politics.

    Thursday December 5th 2024
    6:30pm - 9:00pm

  • (UN)CONTROLLED BURN: Brahim Djiddah (he/him)

    Indigenous Land Stewardship, Reforestation and Coffee Farming Across South & Central America.

    Thursday December 19th 2024
    6:30pm - 9:00pm