Photoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations. This exchange features artists whose work reaches into their family, cultural and community roots to connect and redefine the past, present and future.

Moderated by: Jasmin Chang

Featuring: Youth photographers Fatmata Bah, Annette Palacios, Jennifer Florencio and artist Rachel Elise Thomas

Photoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations on Zoom about their visual stories.  This exchange features artists whose work reaches into their family, cultural and community roots to connect and redefine the past, present and future. Lion’s Tooth Project Peer Lead Fatmata Bah will be sharing about their work for our LEGACY photo exhibit.

This panel is part of Photoville Education. See the full lineup here.

Wednesday October 13

5:00PM EST

Online

Produced and Hosted by Photoville Education

Proudly supported in partnership by PhotoWings and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment

As educators, we know and experience the power of photography and storytelling in our classrooms. For our students, photography can be a tool for self-reflection or a tool for exploration. It can be a medium to tell their own narrative or to interrogate the world around them. It can be a practice for learning leadership, collaboration, and project management. With all these possibilities and so many ways to approach them, the Fall 2021 Educator Lab offers a space for peer teaching/learning exchange. 

In this Educator Lab, you will hear from Lion’s Tooth Project youth and staff, as well as many arts educators who are exhibiting student work at the festival. Come and enjoy as well an artist-led tour of Photoville. Come away with new photo ideas and approaches to bring back to your classroom, or tools and reflection to deepen your practice. Join us for happy hour at the end of the event! 

Photoville Educator Labs are professional development workshops for educators to be inspired, connect and collaborate on ways to bring visual storytelling into the classroom. The program is free and open to educators of all subjects and of all ages, but the content will be focused on middle school and high school art teachers working in the DOE and in community programs. 

Saturday September 18, 2021 

1:30 PM – 6:00PM EST

In Person at Photoville

Registration is now open for the 37th Annual @nycparks GreenThumb GrowTogether Conference! It will take place virtually from Saturday, February 20th through Saturday, February 27, 2021.

Join our Lion’s Tooth Project Peer Leads in facilitating a session of Tea & Paint! Learn how to use tea and plants as dyes for paints, along with their history and medicinal uses as we reflect on what we currently need for our wellness and healing.

You can register for the full conference or individual sessions, all free of cost! For details and to register, please visit the link in our bio or gtgt2021.eventbrite.com

🎙 Join us on our first episode of HIVE MIND! This will be a place to share our collective wisdom, insight, and stories as QTBIPOC youth. Space where we dream and re-imagine a world that centers our wellness, ancestral medicine, plants, and reclaiming our traditions - and even building new ones. “We are not just storytellers we are also story-makers”, Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass)

Hosted by LTP youth bi-weekly.

🍯 EPISODE ONE: Gardens of Resilience

☕️ WHEN: tomorrow, Friday, Feb 19th
🪔TIME: 6:45 PM EST
🎧WHERE: IG LIVE

Brew your favorite cup of tea every other week and sit with us in conversation with a Lion’s Tooth Project participant, current and former Peer Leads, community members and elders - learning about their relationship with plant medicine, story-telling/keeping, leaning into self and community, and more!

This week your hosts, @fatmata.binta & @dariablue_ will be in conversation with Shania Roban @sshania_slays , a queer Black femme from NY w/ Caribbean roots and former LTP participant. They are a makeup artist and writer, libra sun and rising, Taurus moon.

📸 by @frantheyco

If you are interested in being part of the Hive Mind Podcast or want to share a topic of interest, send us a DM! Shoutout to @fatmata.binta for being the creative mind of this space.

After a 12-week collaboration with the Red Hook Community Justice Center where Lion’s Tooth Project facilitated the Just Arts Photo program, “What’s good, Brooklyn” Photo Fence Exhibit" is up.

The exhibition was created and produced in partnership with Photoville.

Thank you to New York State Council on the Arts, The Robin Hood Foundation, The Philip and Edith Leonian Foundation, and New York State Senator Velmanatte Montgomery for supporting this program.

Photos by: Skyler Reed, Sam Barzilay & Dave Shelley

So honored to be part of the National Guild for Community Arts and Education “Anti-Racism as Organizational Compass” series!

We will be sharing how anti-racism looks like in our organization from the lens and work of our Peer Leads and staff.

Register here!

Take a virtual field trip to Photoville for your students to meet a selection of featured artists. The photographers will share about their exhibitions, their artistic practice and their careers, and then take questions from students.

Sign up here!

What a year it has been! The seasons are changing once again and we begin to retreat inwards to continue to do the work needed for our communities to thrive. Peer Lead’s and Lion’s Tooth youth are invited to join us in a Harvest Celebration to acknowledge the work we have done together and vision the future.

Masks required! This will be a socially distanced event at Brooklyn Bridge Park where we will walk through Photoville outdoor exhibit.

To RSVP email: info@lionstoothproject.org

*Must be a current or prior Peer Lead and/or participant. You are welcome to bring a +1.

So often photo albums and other repositories of memory are tucked away in basements and drawers and remain untouched, and yet the web of family can be a rich source of inspiration and analysis for artists, documentarians, and everyday people.

Educator Kamal Badhey and her adult and teen students, William Page, A’ssia Rai, and Valerie Zink reflect on their journey of investigating their family archives. Kamal will share the process by which her autobiographical work, Portals, and Passageways, an excavation of the life of her great-great-grandfather Annam Rathnaiah, became the curricular backbone for her adult education course Family: Reinterpreting the Personal Archive at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, and for the Teen Academy course, Reconstructing the Family Album at the International Center of Photography.

Former students will join the conversation, sharing their personal motivations and reflections on their family archives. Each will share process-oriented, slow forms of family work that incorporates writing, archival photographs, personal objects, or stories. Student creative engagement expands our notion of family by paying tribute to ancestors, disrupting linear narratives, and re-imagining new spaces.

Free Virtual Panel!

Sing up at Photoville

"When I look at this photo, I am reminded of my own childhood breathing in the fullness of nature in a world that couldn’t always see me and yet, I would dream anyway."

Drawing from her book, Black Faces, White Spaces, her relationships “in the field,” and her lived experience, Dr. Carolyn Finney join us on Friday, September 11, to explore the complexities and contradictions of our past, the realities of our present, and the possibilities of our future as it relates to green space, race, and the power to shape the places we live in our own image. By engaging in “green” conversations with Black people from around the country, she considers the power of resistance and resilience in the emergence of creative responses to environmental and social challenges in our cities and beyond.

Sing up at NY Botanic Garden!

ABOUT THIS SESSION

In the midst of a global health pandemic, the impacts of COVID-19 reflect the already embedded inequity and systemic oppression that our societies are built on. Young people’s wellbeing has been a focus on decision making without their input. They have also been at the center of the most recent uprising against racism and our Trans/Gender-Non-Binary Black and POC youth have also reminded our movements to address the intersection of racism and transphobia. So, how do we center Black, Indigenous, and POC youth in their role as healers and advocates in the midst of violence? How do we support them in their intersecting identities as they learn how to care for themselves and show up for their communities?

BIPOC youth have been in the front lines for 500+ years since colonialism seeking liberation for their communities. In their bloodline, they carry both a legacy of healers and wisdom keepers that have fought for their dignity and respect. Join us for a community circle, restorative yoga practice and Q&A with Peer Leads Fatmata Bah and Taz Gaines to talk about how we can best support QTBIPOC youth in reclaiming their agency around their own wellness, healing, and personal stories. Calia Marshall from Brown Sugar: Yoga for Folks of Color will hold a short restorative yoga practice to honor rest as an essential part of sustaining the legacy of change for BIPOC youth.

*This is a space that will center the needs, voices, and experiences of QTBIPOC youth.

To register go to the Gender Spectrums Symposium website!

Join us for a virtual Care Circle for tRans/Non-Binary youth! This workshop will be held in collaboration with Gender Spectrum.

Time: 2 PM EST / 5 PM PST

Join us for a Care Circle virtual drop-in centering POC Trans/Non-Binary youth in collaboration with Gender Spectrum.

Time: 2 PM EST / 5 PM PST

Join us for a Care Circle centering Black Trans/Non-Binary youth! This virtual drop-in will be hosted in collaboration with the Gender Spectrum.

Time: 5 PM PST / 2 PM EST

Join us for a Solstice Care Circle w/

Calia Marshall, Brown Sugar: Yoga for Folks of Color

Vivian Mac, Willow’s Touch Apothecary

&

Lion’s Tooth Project Peer Lead, Fatima Dizon

We will gather to honor the energy and blessings of the Summer Solstice, as well as learn about how to balance that fiery energy with a yoga practice and cooling herbs that can support us during these challenging times for our communities.

YOUTH 14-24. This is an intergenerational circle, family and friends of all ages welcomed.

RSVP here!

Join us and our family at The Youth Food Justice Network on a virtual farm tour and workshop, hosted by Lion’s Tooth Project and Red Hook Farms.

Redhook Farms Virtual tour! Learn what’s growing around you, what you can re-grow from the grocery store and make herbal medicine with us. Our friends at Redhook Initiative will also share resources around food access and farm box delivery / pick up for folks impacted by COVID-19.

Youth 14-24.

RSVP here!

Bring your favorite lemonade and join us for a virtual paint making challenge! Similar to our Tea & Paint drop-in group last week, we will use different prompts to create pieces of art together. We will be sharing some of our favorite lemonade recipes!

RSVP here!

Ask a Sista Farmer

Are you ready to grow your own food and medicine for self-reliance and community resilience? Every Friday, experienced Black womxn* farmers answer your call-in questions about gardening, livestock, agroforestry, plant medicine, and food preservation.

Fridays, 4:00-4:40 (EST), April 10-May 8 and perhaps beyond

On Zoom @ https://zoom.us/j/803350514 or 646-876-9923

Meeting ID: 803 350 514

On Facebook Live @ https://www.facebook.com/soulfirefarm/
Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/539087153384648/

Your Rotating Hosts:

Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm http://www.soulfirefarm.org/meet-the-farmers/
Germaine Jenkins, Fresh Future Farm https://www.freshfuturefarm.org/about-us
Raven A. Blake, Love Fed New Haven https://lovefednewhaven.org/our-team
Keisha Cameron, High Hog Farm https://www.facebook.com/highhogfarm/
Shanelle Donaldson, Percussion Farms https://percussionfarms.org/about/
Naima Penniman, Soul Fire Farm http://www.soulfirefarm.org/meet-the-farmers/
Kirtrina Baxter, Soil Generation https://soilgeneration.org/
Yemi Amu, Oko Farms, www.okofarms.com


This show centers the voices of Black, Indigenous, People-of-Color, Queer, Trans*, Disabled, Immigrant, and Poor communities. Everyone is welcome to watch and listen, but please make space for centered folks to speak. Thank you.

To free ourselves we must feed ourselves!

*Sista and womxn includes trans* and nonbinary folks

BIPOC* Farmers and Food Sovereignty Activists across the country are meeting weekly to share skills, ideas, and mutual support during the pandemic. Each call we feature knowledgeable speakers, facilitate an open forum for peer sharing, and offer a poem or reflection. Join us alternating Sundays, 7:00-8:30 Eastern Time (4:00 PM Pacific Time)

Hosted by:
Soul Fire Farm, Northeast Farmers of Color, Black Farmer Fund, HEAL Food Alliance, & Castanea Fellowship

Food & Land Sovereignty Resource List for COVID-19
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B66EvxSza8_zPdEqF0rYUXGJqA5vRBCqu7zPPPDRQlw/edit?usp=sharing

Sunday:
https://zoom.us/j/987982393
Meeting ID: 987 982 393
Meeting Password: 029557

+16699006833,,987982393# US (San Jose)
Spanish interpretation line: 510-898-6087

"This outbreak reveals the interconnectedness of our world in a very personal way. It is showing, conclusively, that the health and well being of one is intimately bound to the health and well being of all. We must take action to protect the most vulnerable who will be hit hardest: those whose health is already compromised, those who are denied access to medical care, those who bear great risk in asking for help and those on the frontlines of poverty and pollution." ~Partners in Health

*Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. (Allies and accomplices, please respect the caucus space. We will send resources out to everyone after the meeting.)

English-Spanish interpretation is provided.

Ask a Sista Farmer

Are you ready to grow your own food and medicine for self-reliance and community resilience? Every Friday, experienced Black womxn* farmers answer your call-in questions about gardening, livestock, agroforestry, plant medicine, and food preservation.

Fridays, 4:00-4:40 (EST), April 10-May 8 and perhaps beyond

On Zoom @ https://zoom.us/j/803350514 or 646-876-9923

Meeting ID: 803 350 514

On Facebook Live @ https://www.facebook.com/soulfirefarm/
Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/539087153384648/

Your Rotating Hosts:

Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm http://www.soulfirefarm.org/meet-the-farmers/
Germaine Jenkins, Fresh Future Farm https://www.freshfuturefarm.org/about-us
Raven A. Blake, Love Fed New Haven https://lovefednewhaven.org/our-team
Keisha Cameron, High Hog Farm https://www.facebook.com/highhogfarm/
Shanelle Donaldson, Percussion Farms https://percussionfarms.org/about/
Naima Penniman, Soul Fire Farm http://www.soulfirefarm.org/meet-the-farmers/
Kirtrina Baxter, Soil Generation https://soilgeneration.org/
Yemi Amu, Oko Farms, www.okofarms.com


This show centers the voices of Black, Indigenous, People-of-Color, Queer, Trans*, Disabled, Immigrant, and Poor communities. Everyone is welcome to watch and listen, but please make space for centered folks to speak. Thank you.

To free ourselves we must feed ourselves!

*Sista and womxn includes trans* and nonbinary folks

COVID-19 has changed many aspects of our lives; the way our days look and feel is completely different from what we're used to. If you're feeling anxious, unmotivated, or overwhelmed, developing a daily routine can help manage your emotions and responsibilities during our time in quarantine. 

Join us for a grounding session of yoga w/ Brown Sugar Yoga @brownsugaryoganyc, followed by a workshop on how to intuitively create a daily practice/schedule during quarantine w/ Peer Lead Fatima Dizon.

Register here: https://forms.gle/vbeZCaH7aaeUk2Mp6