Essential Space Market Barn ProgrammingProgramming on the current parcel includes overnight Blamping weekends (Black Glamorous Camping), day retreats, social gatherings, Backyard bashes, wellness workshops, and youth day camps and has increased intergenerational interest and emotional investment. Rent Essential Space
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The Birth of Essential Space (2020 - Today)Three years ago, the search began for an autonomous rural retreat for Brown and Black people to interact with nature and restore and establish cultural traditions of healing. Since then The Cultural Land Stewardship,The Institute of Public Scholarship, and its program, Collect and Recover Wellness, have allied with the Kalamazoo Nature Center to create Essential Space.
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The Growth of Essential SpaceEssential Space is planning for the expansion of its footprint and beginning the visioning process through the lensed of retreat, Afrofuturism, intercultural education, healing and sustainability. We look to identify creative ways to build an infrastructure for a rural retreat center and generate a sustainable 400-year, 14 generation design, that is restorative, energy producing, and pollutant clearing.
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