Restoration Village Arts is a retreat, learning and action community for artists and ministers who are creating resources within today’s movements of liberation.
Why Carnival Is Exactly What This Moment Needs
Restoration Village Arts is proud to partner with the prophetic witness of the Carnival de Resistance. Tevyn East, Carnival’s director, shares her thoughts on why Carnival is what this moment in our country and world calls for. I have felt …
Poetry as a Political Act
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth…If you’re in the difficult process of living as a poet, you’re constantly trying to make an attunement to yourself which no outside manipulation or propaganda can disturb. That makes …
Oceti Sakowin, a poem for Standing Rock
Oceti Sakowin We woke up to the drone of planes circling above and soft horse whinnies— animal breath making heat. Over the loud speaker, a man told us that the black snake oozes closer, feeding on: our stone hopes thrown …
Restoration Village Arts Supports the Water Protectors
Mni Wiconi, Water is Life! I am honored to be going to the Standing Rock Sacred Stone Camp as part of a coalition of religious leaders from around the country who will be part of a protective witness action on …
