🌱 Building, Growing, and Becoming 🌱
Happy Black History Month beloved community,
This month, we encourage you to remember that the majority of the work involved in climate and community resilience is done by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Black folx continuously put in high quality, high quantity, and often (still) unpaid labor for the betterment of all life. As devoted land stewards and leaders in resilience, past, present, and future Black people are Black history.
Come show your support for the Denver-area Black community by shopping at the Winter Black Market, hosted by Potted Peace Project (led by SG steering committee member, Kēnya), at Shared Ground on February 11th from 7pm-10pm.
Local Black-led projects to support year-round:
Potted Peace Project gives free houseplants to BIPOC, hosts the Black Market (local Black creatives sell goods and keep 100% of their profits), and builds BIPOC community resilience by connecting through plant love.
Soul2Soul Sisters is a non-profit org offering programs for Black women’s healing and health, reparations, Black voter engagement, and ending anti-Black racism.
Denver Black Queer Collective provides a protective, supportive, and uplifting space for queer Black people in the Denver area.
5280 Freedom School a new elementary school in Denver, centering Black children, where Black history is taught and Black minds matter!
Shades of Honey “the peoples mic” centers BIPOC performers, writers, poets, and storytellers.
🚀 Preparing to Launch Membership!
It is with a lot of excitement that we can say we’re nearly ready to launch our highly accessible membership! An early membership form will be available in mid February. Becoming an early member allows for participation in some very special opportunities and events. As a passionate land steward, community tender, creative thinker, and/or just a human craving connection and a sense of hope/purpose in these uncertain times, becoming a member of Shared Ground is for you. Be on the lookout for our membership notifications to become an early member and become an integrated part of our community.
🌀 Announcements + Upcoming Events
We’re preparing to launch membership! Become an early member here
SPECIAL EVENT COMING! Save the date: March 18th 6pm-late
We have a new events steward. Welcome Alex!
Big thanks to folks who volunteered to shovel on snow days last month
FEBRUARY EVENTS
2/8 @ 5pm: Mycoalition first membership meeting (join here)
2/8 @ 6pm: Bad Bitch Book Club
2/11 @ 7pm: Winter Black Market (free!)
2/11 @ 8pm: Danza Divina’s Aquarius Party
2/12 @ 10am: Discovering Heart, a Radical Love Movement workshop
2/14 @ 5pm: Conscious Connections for Couples
2/15 @ 5pm: Galentine’s Sound Bath and Women’s Circle
2/18 @ 6pm: Valentine’s Dinner and Burlesque Show
2/19 @ noon: Acorn Preparation and Eating Class
2/20 @ 7pm: Microdose Monday (more details and info coming!)
2/23 @ 7pm: Sound Journey Meditation ($10-20 suggested donation)
2/26 @ 3pm: Kaleidoscope Creatures (donation based community dance practice)
RECURRING EVENTS
Mondays @ 6:15pm: Community Yoga with Honeycomb Healing (donation based, drops-ins welcome!)
Thursdays 10am-5pm: Open coworking hours (donation based, drop-ins welcome!)
Sundays @ 9am: Scream Church (tickets go fast!)
Sundays @ noon: Quiet Queer Happy (tea) Hour (free, drop-ins welcome)
🍄 Join the Mycoalition
On Wednesday, February 8th from 5:30 PM to 8 PM MT, SPORE (The Society for Psychedelic Outreach Reform and Education) will be hosting their first meeting for The Mycoalition of the year. The Mycoalition takes a mycelial approach to coalition building, laying a foundation for community sovereignty and solidarity economies with plant/fungal medicine. If you want to attend this meeting, all you have to do is join the Mycoalition here! To learn more before joining, check out this presentation about the vision for the Mycoalition.
🎉 Welcome to the Events Committee, Alex!
Our event calendar at Shared Ground is thriving! Last month we shared an opportunity to join our team via the role of events coordinator and we are thrilled to announce that we have enlisted community member Alex to fill that role. With a background in this type of work and a passion to support our mission, she is already doing a spectacular job. Managing the event applications and all of the coordination that goes into ensuring things run smoothly for our wonderful event hosts takes a huge load off of our steering committee’s overwhelmingly full plate. If you are a current or future event host at Shared Ground, look forward to connecting and communicating with Alex!
Thanks for reading and being a part of our community!
-The Shared Ground Steering Committee
