“Down By the Riverside: A Town Hall is inspired by a cosmo-vision of power; one not reducible to human agency, electoral politics, techno-bureaucratic resolutions, or activist victories. This event is part of the broader three-day “Vunja! A Gathering of the Seeds.””
As 2024 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the Schumacher Center, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe will convene a gathering led by nine stellar scholar-activists, weaving together perspectives inflected by decolonial, post-humanist, and Black studies, among others.
Orland Bishop, Resmaa Menakem, Victoria Santos, Erin Manning, Saidya Hartman, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Nora Bateson, Tiokasun Ghosthorse, and Sara King will join Bayo in conversation. This discussion will be live streamed to audiences around the world. (W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that he was “born by a golden river,” referring to the Housatonic River that runs through the Berkshires.)
Where: Hosted at Saint James Place in Great Barrington; Live stream tickets available now | When: Wednesday, August 7, 1:30 – 5:30 PM Eastern