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DecolonizePhilly is an environmental justice organization that curates spaces for changemakers to come together to save the earth and community from environmental injustices. ½ direct action ½ media
DecolonizePhilly led a workshop titled “The Reimagining Series: The Fight for a Land Revolution” at Rosine 2.0 in Practice at Icebox Project Space on March 18, 2023. Community organizers Keyssh and Essence facilitated a community discussion that focused on the environmental justice crises in Philadelphia. Together we found ways to imagine a new and sustainable society. Everyone collectively created a list of demands to hold power structures accountable to community members. “We will not only take notice when it comes to our dying community and world but ultimately take action in reimagining ways that we can save our planet. We are building a revolution!”
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Generational Feasting was displayed as a part of Rosine 2.0 in Practice at Icebox Project Space on March 18, 2023.
Expanding on Nina Simone's quote, “You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served,” Generational Feasting documents the inter-generational history of Black & brown communities building their own table for fellowship, protection, art making, birthing, learning, etc. Through the lens of five youth artists, you can access portraits of community stories including connected audio, imagery, and writings. As an interactive installation piece, community members are invited to bring their generational stories to the table as well.
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Homies Helping Homies hosted a Community Photo Day at Rosine 2.0 in Practice at Icebox Project Space on March 18, 2023.
Black history has been subject to erasure for the last 557 years. We at Homies Helping Homies recognize the importance of preserving Black history as a way to challenge this erasure. We are doing this by hosting Community Photo Days – providing access to those who often do not have the wealth or finances to afford professional photos. This pivotal work addresses systematic views of Black people by emphasizing that folks come from families and communities of love and care.
On January 15th, 2023, we began hosting our Community Photo Days at Baby Tooth, serving local entrepreneurs, actors, families, and everyone else interested in capturing a piece of themselves and their place in history. Community Photo Days are an integral part of our mission; in the future, Homies Helping Homies hopes to bring these Days to more Philadelphia locations as a way to continue serving our Black and brown community. Along with this project, we aim to expand our community outreach programs to include educational courses for future generations that have a passion for photography but whose entry into the arts is hindered by systemic barriers.
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Microgrant Projects
About the Microgrant
The Past Visions / Future Archives Rosine 2.0 Collective Microgrant is for Philly-based artists, healers, activists & organizers to collectively create a community-engaged artwork or participatory event. These artworks/events will be a part of Rosine in Practice, a day-long event on Saturday, March 18, 2023 in Philadelphia.
Rosine 2.0 looks backward and forward at the same time. We create a thruline between radical history and future change. To build off of this, artists were asked to choose one of two themes for their project:
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Rosine 2.0 is inspired by Philadelphia history. Radical for its time, the original Rosine Association provided aid and refuge for women facing systemic harm and barriers to care. Today, Rosine 2.0 looks back on that moment in history through preserved archival materials, including the Rosine Association’s casebooks.
The Ask: To create a community-engaged artwork* that addresses questions such as:
Who are the memory keepers in your community?
Whose stories have been historically hidden? Lost? Left out?
What stories would we want to leave to future witnesses?
*Artwork is defined expansively, as anything from images, installations, sonic art, participatory events, performance and more. The artwork can in itself be a community archive or center community archiving as a practice.
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Rosine 2.0 is dreaming into the future. We explore harm reduction, mutual aid and collective healing in today’s Philadelphia. In solidarity with drug users, sex workers and unhoused communities, we envision a future that listens, a future that cares… a future that holds all of us.
The Ask: To create a participatory event* that speaks to the prompt:
“In our collective future we will… “
*A participatory event should directly engage the community by bringing them into the creative process, so they become active participants in the event itself. The event should invite people to collectively daydream, imagine and/or co-create a vision for Philadelphia’s future.
The Past Visions / Future Archives Collective Microgrant provided grants of $3,500 per project for the creation of a collectively made artwork and/or participatory event.
Rosine 2.0 supported 3 projects: two Community Archiving projects and one Future Visioning participatory event. Since these projects must be collectively created, artists were asked to apply in groups of two or more. Queer & trans Black Philadelphians were particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Applications closed on October 20, 2022.