Number of participants: 8
Location: Learning Grounds garden @ de Zandweg allotment garden, Rotterdam South
Date: When the bees have awakened
Duration: 10.00 – 14.30 (10 am – 2:30 pm)
Ingredients: decomposed nettle buried last October, ceramic pot, straw, mud, compost, used fence wire, bamboo posts, winter water, potatoes, a yellow plum tree in full bloom, wild garlic freshly harvested, a savoury meal made from last year’s harvest, a text on embodied activism, clouds, rain drizzle, intermittent sunshine, a swarm of bees, a breathing practice for metabolising vibration with the awakening hive
Soft Score
10.00 Welcome and Grounding
10.30 Unearthing
Dig up a clay urn buried last October, filled with decomposed nettles
Distribute the nettle mixture around the garden, inoculating the soil
11.00 Transfiguration and Renewal
Build a potato tower from used soil, fencing and straw
Plant new potatoes as an offering for renewal
Toast the potatoes with winter water
12.30 Replenishment
Share a meal of pumpkin soup, using harvest pumpkin from the previous season
Enjoy a wild garlic pesto on homemade bread
13.30 Embodying Activism
Sit underneath the blossoming plum tree where the bees are gathering
Together read a short text from Rae Johnson’s Embodied Activism
14.15 Bee tree breath
Together do a bee breath with the bees, to metabolise vibration with the awakening hive and for practising collective resonance
14.30 End
