Hip Hop Gardens: A Permaculture Event
MoYah, Maria-Fernandez Garcia and Ian Soloman-Kawall
Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1PX
This lecture is part of the 2024 Autumn Art Lecture series.
Hip Hop Gardens: A Permaculture Event
Tickets will be released shortly through the RWA's website.
About this event
Join us at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) to think through the intersections of Hip Hop and gardening as forms of creative expression. Leading with permaculture values of people care, planet care and fair share we will learn with creative practitioners MoYAH and Ian Soloman-Kawall and Bristol-based community herbalist Maria-Fernandez Garcia across an evening of creativity and interaction.
There will be drinks available to purchase on the evening.
About the Autumn Art Lectures
Autumn is here, and for this year’s Art Lectures we have partnered with the University of Bristol’s Centre for Black Humanities! Bringing together a rich chorus of speakers, our new series invites you to consider the potential for liberation offered by creativity in all its forms. Across five events that will take us from the unexpected intersections of hip hop and gardening to the history and legacies of the Tudor court musician, John Blanke, we will examine the threads of power, protest and art-making that weave together across the work of artists, writers and musicians. Join us as we move from Bristol's Central Library to the RWA’s garden and from the local Jungle scene to celebrated novelist Monique Roffey’s imaginary island of St Calibri to celebrate artistic expression that challenges, uplifts, and liberates.
The Autumn Art Lecture series is hosted by the University of Bristol's Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences with support from the Centre for Black Humanities and Bristol Ideas.
If you have any questions about this event or the series as a whole, please contact alss-research@bristol.ac.uk.
About the speakers
MoYah was born in Mozambique during a 16-year war and forced to flee his country as a political refugee & move to Lisbon at a young age. Inspired by his parents broad musical taste & the impact of Rap music whilst living in Portugal, he quickly learned that music could be used not only for entertainment but also as a powerful tool for self exploration & social expression eventually leading him to writing raps that addressed issues relating to identity, social injustices & spirituality from the perspective of a child of the African Diaspora.
Maria Fernandez Garcia is a Bristol-based forager and herbalist who, under the banner Healing Weeds, shares her expertise in wild medicinal plants on foraging walks and workshops around the city. Maria has been an outdoors educator for many years, channeling this passion for natural medicine by championing modern scientific research supporting traditional uses of medicinal wild plants. Maria is active in creating a community around foraging in Bristol.
Ian Solomon-Kawall aka KMT is a musician, DJ, promoter and Freedom Teacher Guide who uses art [hip-hop] for social awareness and social cohesion. He is Co-Founder of the May Project Gardens which brings communities together to act collectively. Previously he was Project Manager for Pan Intercultural Arts a company using intercultural performance work to help facilitate self-expression and promote a deeper understanding of our changing cultural identities. They work with a diverse range of communities across London and internationally, empowering people to use the arts as a tool for change in their lives.
Tickets
Tickets will be released shortly through the RWA's website.
This lecture is part of the 2024 Autumn Art Lecture series.
Contact information
If you have any queries regarding this event, please contact alss-research@bristol.ac.uk
