Above: bashexo adds a candle to the community altar they build with offerings from UnBound Bodies Collective and gatherers. Photo by JayPix.
Above: An altar by We Are Forests devoted to freeing political prisoners and honoring martyrs. Photo by JayPix.
From 2022 to 2024: Consult with ACI collaborates with the Massachusetts Assembly seeded by ArtPlace America’s Local Control Local Fields initiative. We support a series of gatherings that culminate in connection between each gathering’s peoples.
UnBound Bodies Collective shapes QUENCH: a rest and restoration retreat for QTBIPOC creatives and activists and healers on a farm called The Food Project.
The Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag tribes shape an online gathering for Native artists, and a circle for Wampanoag at the Mashpee Tribal Museum.
We Are Forests shape a gathering devoted to Reciprocal Returns at an Agroforest in Southampton.
Elevated Thought design the finale Ocean Gathering to connect communities from all the gatherings above. The event originally planned at their headquarters in Lawrence is cancelled. We honor all original contributors, compensating and offering to re-book them. Months later, Arts Connect International holds the rescheduled gathering at the Cultural Equity Incubator. Above and below are photos from this action.
Above: Smiling for a photo are David, Trish, Asa, Taquana, Jim, Mother Bear, and Talia. They are Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Members. Talia and Asa coordinated the Native gatherings with NaDaizja and Tysonnae from Aquinnah.Berta from Aquinnah and David served as Assembly 2.0 Advisors.
Above: Gina Marte basks in light on the Incubator dance floor, sharing original choreography adapted from duet to solo. Photo by JayPix.