EVENT DETAILS:

On Tuesday, December 7 from 6-7:30pm CT, The Fields at Rootsprings in partnership with Solidaire Network will host a fundraiser to raise $500,000 and close the gap of the $2M Cultivating Campaign!

[Moderator] Nwamaka Agbo
[Panelists] Erin Sharkey, Signe Harriday, Lois Mineau, and Queen Drea

Funds raised will go to purchase and restore the land and to kickstart the operations and programming of the nonprofit. Please come and give all that you can!

RSVP HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_bpJpbVIsTsqt3sOpQ4gJrw

ABOUT THE WORK:

Where can community go for healing?

For years, many BIPOC folks have named the urgent need for healing spaces that “look like us, talk like us, and act like us.” After the murder of George Floyd, when Minneapolis became the epicenter of the global uprising, this need reached a crisis point. Organizers were running on fumes, taking little to no time to retreat, rest, and rejuvenate.

When an opportunity emerged to steward 36-acres of biodiverse agricultural land in unceded traditional territory of the Dakota people (Annandale, MN; about 75-minutes outside of the Twin Cities), six BIPOC lesbian artist-organizers responded.

The Fields at Rootsprings is a a transformative new model for community healing and Black land stewardship in Minnesota. It is a hybrid cooperative-nonprofit partnership with the mission to provide land-based programs for the healing and retreat of BIPOC (centering LGBTQ+) artists, activists, healers and communities in Minnesota.

Visit the website to learn more about its offerings: https://rootspringsmn.org/