Where's Your Tree?
ROOTING Where's Your Tree?
Rooting Where’s Your Tree?
The Initiative
An artist-initiated, eco-project, founded by Pamela Booker, Where’s Your Tree? is a Sustainable Living Advocate in the partnering of art and natural resources as mediating tools, in the face of historic, environmental ruin of the planet and black and brown lives. This advocacy occurs in areas of ec
Rooting Where’s Your Tree?
The Initiative
An artist-initiated, eco-project, founded by Pamela Booker, Where’s Your Tree? is a Sustainable Living Advocate in the partnering of art and natural resources as mediating tools, in the face of historic, environmental ruin of the planet and black and brown lives. This advocacy occurs in areas of eco-art, media and urban-agriculture, social justice, health and wellness.
Origin Story
This vision originated with the Commencement Address (see Bio) that I presented to a graduating class of Goddard College students. Of course, I thought I'd posed the question as an instructive metaphor to them on how to nurture their outrage, genius, and conviction. Then I came to understand that we often pursue what we need to learn. As a result, I began taking small but deliberate steps and actions toward defining for myself responses to the originating question.
Mission
To map expressions of (in)justice, racial and social equity, our moral responsibility to the planet and one another. To reclaim the sustainable applications and remedies known to our ancestors in lifetimes before this country’s “founding" and to remember they are accessible to us now. To create restorative forums and funding opportunities that affirm our sustainable future by supporting artists, healers, urban growers/farmers and educators.
Podcast
On the Where's Your Tree? podcast series we meet folks whose practices remind us that we live in the world as generative "caretakers." They offer liberating stories and tools of resistance, joy, witnessing and documenting ourselves.
OUR AMAZING TEAM
MEG McHUTCHISON / Podcast Content Editor/Co-Producer
MEG McHUTCHISON / Podcast Content Editor/Co-Producer
MEG McHUTCHISON / Podcast Content Editor/Co-Producer
I am a Portland-based artist and consultant specializing in providing strategic resilience to organizations, individuals, and projects. As the non-profit landscape shifts due to COVID-19, I continue to educate myself on what real, just, equitable change looks like across the non-profit sector. I am White-bodied, cisgender, intersectional
I am a Portland-based artist and consultant specializing in providing strategic resilience to organizations, individuals, and projects. As the non-profit landscape shifts due to COVID-19, I continue to educate myself on what real, just, equitable change looks like across the non-profit sector. I am White-bodied, cisgender, intersectional crone with a lifelong commitment to service.
Drawing on a lifetime of experience with working with narrative, Meg provides the finely-tuned sensitivity and creative perspective of an interdisciplinary artist and brings the organized and practical approach of an experienced producer to all of her work. She is irrepressibly curious and deeply committed to the communities where she works and lives.
IAN LUCERO - Audio Editor / Cinematographer
MEG McHUTCHISON / Podcast Content Editor/Co-Producer
MEG McHUTCHISON / Podcast Content Editor/Co-Producer
In addition to his recent stellar work as Audio/Sound Editor for the Radical Rejuvenation series, Ian’s other current projects include a collaboration with the Degenerate Art Ensemble titled, “Skeleton Flower,” a new theater performance which is a semi-autobiographical exploration of a creative person’s struggle with identity, depressio
In addition to his recent stellar work as Audio/Sound Editor for the Radical Rejuvenation series, Ian’s other current projects include a collaboration with the Degenerate Art Ensemble titled, “Skeleton Flower,” a new theater performance which is a semi-autobiographical exploration of a creative person’s struggle with identity, depression and the awakening of personal power. It is set to premiere In New York some time in 2021. Further collaboration with the ensemble includes “Symbiosis” a special collaboration between the directors of Degenerate Art Ensemble Haruko Crow Nishimura with visual and performance artist Senga Nengudi and musician and performer Eddy Kwon. The work is an ongoing project currently under development at Colorado College.
Two short experimental films, "Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees" and “Tidal” was a collaboration with Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson of Wobbly Dance, the dancer Grant Miller, and the band Sweetmeat. They are currently making the rounds in streaming film festivals.
He has alsoworks for the University of Washington’s Continuum College, editing hundreds of online education video courses on a range of subjects from environmentalism and climate change to women in entrepreneurial leadership to experimental arts.Two short experimental films are currently making the rounds in streaming film festivals.
ARIELLE TOUABOY / Social Media Specialist / Intern
MEG McHUTCHISON / Podcast Content Editor/Co-Producer
ARIELLE TOUABOY / Social Media Specialist / Intern
I am an undergraduate student at Montclair State University and pursuing a degree in Marketing with a minor in Cognitive Science. Interning at Where’s Your Tree? has inspired me to learn more about the importance of sustainable living and literary activism. My goal is to create a social media platform that educates my peers on the importance of ethical and environmental issues.
WHOLE CITIES FOUNDATION GRANTEES
Meet the 2020 Grantees:
- Giving One Tenth Community Garden
- Greater Newark Conservancy
- Green Garden Bunches
- Hawk Mountain Earth Center
- Ironbound Community Corporation
- Kids In Business
- Newark Science and Sustainability
- Project U.S.E.
- Unified Vailsburg Services Organization
- Urban Agriculture Cooperative
- Urban League of Essex County
WELCOME TO WHERE'S YOUR TREE?
Be transported by our three-part documentary series of conversations with #NewarkStrong urban farmers/growers and social entrepreneurs and the communities that love and support them.
During these challenging times:
BE STILL. STAND IN LOVE. PAY ATTENTION.
In light, Pam Booker, Founder
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