The Confluence
The Confluence is an embodied eco-conference for Earthworkers share their wares, works, inspirations, and incantations for planetary liberation. School for the Ecocene’s first annual confluence was held on June 1st, 2024 on Tongva Lands in collaboration with Slanguage University at Studio One Eleven in Long Beach, California. The Mycelia Marketplace offered art and services, presentations by DIY PhDers shared liberatory research, and we launched Earth Doula by Queen Hollins with Ecocene Press.
School for the Ecocene Cooperative
We are a cooperative school for planetary liberation. Connect with classes, community, curricula, and services for the Ecocene—an emergent geologic era of human reciprocity and healing for all living beings. Our co-op offers worker and community member-ownerships and launched Ecocene Press in 2024.
A Textbook for the Ecocene
A Textbook for the Ecocene is a how-to guide for connecting to self, community and planet. The Ecocene is an emergent and imagined geologic era where all humyns are living in reciprocity with their ecosystems again. Each textbook chapter shares practical exercises to try at home, Earth-centered theory and spirituality, and interviews with Black and Indigenous Earth warriors—cultural workers generating planetary liberation in their everyday lives. These testimonios from Johanna Iraheta, Bruje Fuego, Raquel Lemus, Íssa Guzman, Jasmine Nyende, Queen Hollins, and Olivia Chumacero shine with wisdom and advice for new and seasoned Earth stewards alike.
corazón de la tierra
Weaving animation, nature ASMR & a how-to tutorial on generating aquifers and flower mountains, el corazón de la tierra invites viewers to reconnect art to ecosystem and compost as offering. This ecotorial, a collaboration with Sarita Doe, her partner champoy, their daughter Lidagat Luna, Madre Maple Tree, fava bean, maíz, milpa, & their habitat, is a response to Facing Darkness, an online exhibition at 18th Street Arts Center that presents artworks that address the human capacity to overcome hardships on both global and personal scales.
The DIY PhD
A DIY PhD is creating a deeper education that honors learning in our bodies and spirits as much as our minds. It’s a reclamation of education for the Earth and legitimizing the knowledges held in our bodies and communities. In late August of 2013, David Whitaker and Sarita Doe were in their LA garden, surrounded by sunlight and succulents, and David pointed to the words DIY PhD in his sketchbook. Their six-year program began, and now Sarita offers a year-long DIY PhD course through School for the Ecocene to get planetary scholars started on their multi-passionate holistic learning journey.
Earth Doula by Queen Hollins
Earth Doula is an illustrated guide for Earth medicine, stewardship, and healing. At a time when so many have forgotten or been disconnected from sustaining life, Queen Hollins immerses us in Black Indigenous wisdom, practices, and rituals to grow resilience as a thriving planet. Illustrations by Sarita Doe, Jenny Montalvo, and Jasmine Nyende, published by Ecocene Press 2024.
story-maps
Collaborative mapping with ecosystems, elders, organizations, and artists to share the stories our bodies and landscapes hold. Illuminated manuscripts visualize the medicine our movements are remembering and regenerating on Earth. Pictured here is el Codice de Cambios, made in collaboration with Olivia Chumacero and the spirits at Huntington Gardens, Tongva Lands, Los Angeles, California in 2018.
habitat restoration and education
Collaborative consulting, workshops, curricula, and habitat design to bring us back into living equilibrium with our multi-species habitats. Edible, medicinal, and native landscapingand in Huchiun Ohlone Lands, East Bay area, California. Pictured here is Wildcat Canyon Community School upper hillside restoration, planted in conjunction with 5th - 7th grades.
rites and rituals
Flower Mountain, 2023, Sarita Doe, Yoli, and School for the Ecocene at coneshapetop on Ohlone Lands, Oakland, California.
Ceremonies for bringing Earth and all beings back into balance. Site-specific portals we open with intention to release, return, and repair with the support of ancestor guides, altars, and elemental Earth medicine.
Earthpainting
Earthpainting is natural painting as offering and collaborator with habitat. Sarita shares workshops and apprenticeships for documents the spirits, stories and medicine we find there with natural pigment and gum arabic powder, or gouache. Offered seasonally via zoom or in-person by request.
Of Seed, Soil, and Stars:
Meditations on Land, Body, Resistance, and Regeneration
Of Seed, Soil, and Stars, curated by Joy A. Anderson and Robin Garcia at LACE in Tongva Lands, Los Angeles California in 2023. Six interdisciplinary artists collaborate with earth and communities, using soil, rainwater, and natural pigments as material. Together, their work explores the relationships between the land and body and between migration and memory.