Guests and Music Mingle at Spanish in the Garden
“Cuando tú me dices a media voz que me amas
Me siento tan sublime como el tibio sol de la mañana
Y esto es lo que tú me haces sentir
Desde el día en que te conocí.”
Sounds of …
“Cuando tú me dices a media voz que me amas
Me siento tan sublime como el tibio sol de la mañana
Y esto es lo que tú me haces sentir
Desde el día en que te conocí.”
Sounds of …
A spontaneous sunflower blooms in the garden; watercress weaves into a floating island. Plants teach a different sort of movement, response to the will of wind and water.
At Collard City Growers, the plants …
We don’t always know the things that we think we know. Sometimes, the simplest questions require translation and clarification.
Today, during Week 2 of Spanish in the Garden, we realized a very real gap in our collective knowledge: What is …
At the Sanctuary for Independent Media, Tuesdays are the first day of a work week of Uptown Summer’s environmental stewardship and neighborhood storytelling activities. Today in particular brought with it a special newness, as it was the first day of our Spanish in the Garden workshop, which will continue on Tuesdays through the rest of Uptown Summer.
Day 3 of Uptown Summer left us wondering what we can build with and in our communities, as a morning of working in the garden moved into an afternoon of brainstorming in the Sanctuary.
Our morning began with the beeping sounds of a dump truck in reverse, set to provide us with a ton of gravel to add to the pathway that extends through the L-Lot. We spent our morning there, shoveling gravel into pathways, turning piles of dirt and stone into spaces for walking and moving forward into well-loved spaces. With shovels and wheelbarrows and rakes we turned weeds into walking spaces, fueled by water breaks and laughter.
Today was a story of beginning. Our 2016 Uptown Summer youth employees began their summer of Environmental Stewardship and Neighborhood Storytelling with an introduction to The Sanctuary for Independent Media and a tour of Collard City Growers. In doing so, we also shared the stories of ourselves. In our …