This Saturday, Shanna Sabio, co-founder and co-director of @growhousebk, will lead a walk centered around Sankofa, a philosophical principle from the Akan people which means “go back and fetch it." When contemplated deeply, it is an Afrofuturist principle that bends time and space to recover and reclaim lost histories, suppressed lessons, and infinite future possibilities. How do we broaden the realm of possibilities beyond what has been done before?
During a time of displacement, the rolling back of affirmative action, book bans and the demonization of Critical Race Theory, it’s of the utmost importance to reclaim Black and Indigenous stories and histories. This walk will bend time and space, asking participants to engage empathy, imagination, and their senses to breathe life into history as a future visioning tool.
Sabio's walk is the second part of this Parallel Walk, with part one taking place last weekend in France, led by Cara Michell in partnership with Anna Matip and Association Amicale Franco-Camerounaise de Saint-Denis in Saint Denis. Parallel Walks are a CTHQ series of artist-led walks that take place in two locations, connected through a shared political, social, contextual, or geographic theme.
Image description: Two images of neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Saint Denis, France are overlaid with "Parallel Walk with Grow House, November 11, Brooklyn, CTHQ"
