Events
MISC “How to be an Ally” Symposium. Smith College. Northampton, MA. April 13, 2012
Multiethnic Interracial Smith College (MISC) invites you to join in a primarily student-led symposium about How to Be an Ally.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland. April 10, 2012.
The Black/Land Project will offer students, faculty and staff at St. Mary’s College a presentation about what we are learning about black relationships to land and place. 
We will also hold a classroom presentation on “Black/Land and Sustainability” and a facilitated workshop session on “A Different American History” for students, staff and faculty to explore in depth how black relationships to land and place shape the experience of living, working and studying at St. Mary’s today.
Beyond Fields and Factories: Black/Land returns to Flint, MI March 29-31, 2012.
The Black/Land Project will return to Flint, Michigan in March 2012 to offer two sessions of Black/Land Conversations:
Beyond Fields and Factories: Imagining a New Flint
In February, Black/Land conducted interviews in African-American communities in Flint. In March, Black/Land founder Mistinguette Smith will return with a short presentation comparing patterns in black people’s relationships to land and place in Flint to patterns found in other black communities in the Great Lakes area. She will then facilitate a workshop to develop black Flintonians’ vision for land use and cultivating sense of place in Flint, with an emphasis on the North Side.
Please join us. You are an important part of this story!
The events are free, but seating is limited and reservations are required.
- Thursday, March 29th. 8:30 AM. Applewood Estate.
- Saturday, March 31, 11:00 AM. Foss Avenue Baptist Church. NOTE NEW LOCATION.
Reserve your seat now. Email RSVP@BlackLandProject.org indicating the date/location you will attend.
As Flintonians prepare to reshape their city with a new municipal master plan, these workshops offer a place to get involved in deciding what relationships to land and place are important to you and your community.
Black/Land Interviews in Washington, D.C. March 3-5, 2012
The Black/Land Project will be conducting preliminary interviews in Washington D.C. March 3-5, 2012.
Black/Land: New Questions. NOFA-VT Winter Conference. February 12, 2012. Burlington, VT.
UPDATE: Were you at this workshop? Looking for the discussion question slides ? We have posted them here.
Join us at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) Winter Conference for the workshop Black/Land: New Questions. 
Based on interviews with urban gardeners and rural farmers, community activists and artists, and ordinary people who tell extraordinary stories, Black/Land: New Questions begins with a slide show that describes the unique perspectives of African-American, Caribbean and African immigrants’ relationships to land and place.
In the second part of the workshop, Mistinguette Smith, Hannah Sultan and John Elder will guide small group dialogues about these relationships to land and place, and what we can learn to support our efforts to build racially just and resilient urban/rural connections in an increasingly multicultural Vermont.
Gardening the Community’s Food Justice Series. Wednesday, January 18, 2012.Springfield, MA.
Springfield is growing more than just food in its gardens.
Join us at the Scan 360 space (11 Wilbraham Road) for dinner, and a Springfield focused discussion of black relationships to land and place. Wednesday, January 18 from 5-7PM.
December 10, 2011. Rensselaer County, NY
Black/Land will be interviewing in Petersburg NY.
November 21-22, 2011. Cleveland and Akron, OH
The Black/Land Project will conduct individual and group interviews in Cleveland and Akron, OH.
November 8-9, 2011. Black/Land Interviews in Springfield, MA
The Black/Land Project will conduct individual interviews in Springfield, MA.
October 25, 2011. Detroit preview of “Black/Land: Women’s Voices.” Wright Museum of African American History.
Mistinguette Smith will present a preview of a new work Black/Land: Women’s Voices, that focuses on black women’s relationship to land and place, including recent interviews with women in Michigan. Discussion of black relationship to land in Michigan, and across the US, follows. Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI. 6:00PM. The event is free, but please register here, so we know you’re coming!
