Breaking Down Whiteness is an awareness raising study group addressing our racism. It is a peer-to-peer working space for and from white people. During the 8 sessions, centered around self-reflection and personal experience we will explore white supremacy, identity, privilege, fears and desires together with the explicit goal to dismantle and unlearn harmful behavior in our personal life and in our communities.
We will meet weekly starting 14.05 at The Learning Grounds garden in Rotterdam (near Zuiderpark) from 19:00 - 20:30. You can contact [email protected] for sign-up and questions!
Breaking Down Whiteness self-organized and open-source. It was first hosted as an online group with lím collective (link: /lim_collective/)
Fonts:
Velvelyne by Mariel Nils, Manon Van der Borght, with the contribution of Raphaël Bastide, Benjamin Dumond. Distributed by velvetyne.fr.
Nudles by Anne-Dauphine Borione & Max Lillo. Distributed by Bye Bye Binary
Visuals:
@juliette_noelie x @spin.collectiveee
"Learning to Grow, Learning to Grief: Soft Scores"
Throughout the 2026 growing season, Spore's garden @spore.initiative will become a laboratory space for exploring regenerative, care-informed growing practices and grief-informed work. Artist, researcher, and educator Michelle Teran @michelle_ubermatic@learn_inggrounds will develop a series of 'soft scores' with participants. Each soft score links regenerative practices with meditations on loss. By combining these approaches, the series asks: How do we mourn while building futures?
These gatherings are for people interested in or practicing regenerative growing and are designed to offer a supportive, collective space for those experiencing grief over ecological or climate collapse.
Tentative schedule (weather permitting):
19. April - 1st session
21. June - 2nd session
13. September - 3rd session
18. October - Final session
/en/programming/participate/series/planting-communities-learning-to-grow-learning-to-greive
/grieving-growing/
You’re warmly invited to a Queer Migrant Picnic at Zandweg Garden on November 1st, from 15:00 to 19:00 🌿
We’ll spend the afternoon and evening making dumplings together, making each other into dumplings, sharing food and cozy vibes as the days get colder.
Bring your favourite dumpling ingredients and let’s create a shared feast! ! We will provide the dumpling wrappers, soup and warm tea. Feel free to bring along something that you want to share with the group:)! 🧦☕🧸🧺
Sign up in the form above ❤️
Michelle Teran is 2/4 contributors to the seminar Uvissas tilstand/Flying Blind. Teran (CA/DE) is an educator, artist, and researcher with a focus on ecologies of care, collective grief, feminist, decolonial, eco-social, and critical pedagogies. Among other things, she has transformed her garden allotment plot into an art and ecology project, where she grows food, experiments with care-informed practices and methods, and hosts various learning activities.
Michelle Teran er 2/4 bidragsytarar til seminaret Uvissas tilstand/Flying Blind. Teran (CA/DEI) er kunstnar, researchar og undervisar, som fokuserer på økologiar av omsorg, kollektive sørgjeprosessar, og feministiske, dekoloniale, øko-sosiale og kritiske læringsprosessar. Ho har blant anna forvandla kolonihagen sin til eit kunst-og-økologi prosjekt, der ho dyrkar grønnsaker, og eksperimenterer med omsorgsinformert praksisar og metodar. I hagen er ho også vert for ulike aktivitetar for læring.
Nettside / Webpage:
/longva_air/?hl=en
/learn_inggrounds/
Festivalen er støtta av / The festival is kindly supported by: Kulturrådet, Norske Billedkunstnere, Nordisk kulturkontakt, Møre og Romsdal fylkeskommune
@kulturradet@norskebilledkunstnere@nordiskkulturkontakt@mrfylkeskommune@longva_air@learn_ingrounds@performanceartbergen #pabbetweenskyandsea #longvakunstnarresidens #nordøyane #Skuløya
🐚🐚We are very excited to invite you to Sonic Grounds, our first radio broadcast from Michelle's garden part of @learn_inggrounds ! 🐚🐚
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📻📻Starting from the sounds of the garden we travel to different localities, from land issues in the Netherlands, to a collectively owned forest liberating land from industries in Jatiwangi (West Java, Indonesia). We share pieces about Land struggles from our ecosystem.
📅📅So we invite you to come to the Learning Grounds garden (dm for address) on Tuesday, June 3rd between 10am and 17pm, to read, listen to and digest the stories and texts of these different land struggles and resistance together. Lunch will be provided by Gudkitchen.
🕸️🕸️Check the link in our bio to listen online
First week of residency at @learn_inggrounds thanks to @spin.collectiveee for inviting me. I take care of the garden and seeds growing in exchange of having an amazing everyday studio space alone for myself. I feel also cared for with and by the garden I have to say 🌿❤️
