We’re gathering around the bonfire for our annual spring fundraiser, and this year’s meal honors the spirit of the “spring chicken”—a symbol of fresh beginnings, tender growth, and the joy of renewal.

A storytelling experience featuring KING COTTON

Participants will attend an intimate hands-on workshop featuring Mississippi Brown Cotton grown right here in Detroit. Engaging storytelling and conversation on cotton production, growing techniques, drop spindle and spinning wheel demonstrations. This session is a collective exploration of tradition and contemporary methods of processing fiber and yarn making. As we hold and reverence the cotton plant. A plant that supports s throughout our entire lives this is an opportunity to heal and acknowledge cotton and the ancestral knowledge of farmers, land stewards, culture keepers and makers before us.