2020 cohort

What are you willing to do?

MARCH 14, 2020

Launch

We launched this year’s Call To Create cohort amid whispers of the Shelter in Place order for Massachusetts. Our cohort met in person when fear and recommendations for social distancing were still mild. Unsure of how our work would be impacted we held tight knowing community, in whatever capacity possible, would be important in the days ahead. We continued to meet monthly (virtually) and stayed connected through shared reading, journal prompts and personal documentation of the process.

mercy mother see

a creative originally from hampton roads virginia, using many mediums as leon grey & brandon king—dj, visual artist and community organizer—here, in conversation with the 2020 C2C question: what are you willing to do? grey curated “mercy mother see” for our cohort, serving as both a prelude and epilogue to our discourse on interdependence & decentralization.

this mix explores what is wrong and acknowledges we are resilient AF. it’s harsh with soft content and sonically it’s madd Black. the richness of our history and our ancestry, pulling us through different situations. this mix is made for artists too—being in the zone, being in the moment. we get put into a mode that everything is fine when everything isn’t. we need love, hugs, 300 acres and shit like that.

brandon moved to jackson mississippi in 2014, where he worked for six years as a cultural organizer, cooperative developer, and program coordinator for cooperation Jackson, an organization of which he is also a founding member. brandon also served on the executive committee and was a farm anchor of freedom farms cooperative, a federated cooperative of cooperation jackson striving to create conditions for food sovereignty. brandon is currently a board member, and on the advisory committee, for cooperation jackson .

we are encouraged by this work and look forward to more from him…more from us.

we are the stars 3 from Mother Mercy on Vimeo.

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