Please experience our EARTH SEED Visual Poem above by pressing the play button. Video by Fox Nakai, poem by Sarai Bordeaux, and poem read by Mia Birdsong. 4 minutes and 51 seconds long. Captions and subtitles available.

 
 

EARTH SEED invites us to envision and enact our collective future from a world awakening to its unraveling.

Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March – June 2023.  We visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future. 

Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice.  It does so by deepening our relationships with BIPOC activists, artists, educators, farmers, youth, and elders.

Photo by Fox Nakai

PEOPLE’S JOURNEY // Moving and relating through five vital areas of California.

GATHER // Coming together for a community event in 2024 to break bread and vision.

SHARE // Curriculum with collected survival skills and gratitude rituals based on our People’s Journeys.

Photo by Farah Sosa

LEARN // Compiled resources to learn more about the life and legacy of Octavia E. Butler (OEB).

EARTH SEED Creative Leads

Jocelyn Jackson, Võ Hải & Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik

Project Consultant Saqib Keval

Project Coordinator Natasha Huey

Producer Joan Osato 

Project Manager Corinna Hui, Maude Wilson

Design, Social Media, & Community Outreach Kamakshi Duvvuru

Documentarian Fox Nakai

EARTH SEED Council Members Past and Present

Radical Hospitality

Mia Birdsong

Olivia White Lopez

Tricia Ong

Sarai Bordeaux

Rachel Mauricio

Érika Padilla-Morales

Food Culture

Nicole Wong

Tommy McClain

Lindsay Oda 

Aileen Suzara

Caroline Chow

Field Guide

Kamakshi Duvvuru

People's Walk

Salima Hamirani

Claudia Leung

Lydia Yamagachi

Caroline Chow

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world.
And you have to do it all the time.
”
— Angela Davis