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Nyasha Laing 🇧🇿

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Culture Keeper. Documentarian. Explorer. Impact Producer. Esq.
NYC | Kingston
@forest_memory @teamredowl @kuminaqueen

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Feeling Renewed. As a friend said, Rearranged.
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Deeply inspired by @toshireagon 👑 astounding performance Over My Head- I Hear Freedom In the Air. The experience deeply impacted me, reminded of my foundations.
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I sang spirituals and female a capella 🎼for many years but I didn’t fully understand until last night how the vibrations, the act of breath moving up from my body into my voice in unison or harmony -serve as their own kind of salve and deep motivation for action.
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This was a teaching. 📝

Between songs Toshi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Angela Davis, Bernice Reagon’s brilliant granddaughter and others reminded us of the daily practice of joyful song, call and response and ancestral communication that have been the cornerstones of and spirit-led change in the Black, radical and feminist tradition. And every time Toshi spoke and invited we were called to sing with her as if the ancestors had spoken themselves.

Blessings to all the hands that made this night happen and the voices that use their incredible gifts to stand us up.
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#AboutLastNight #FreedomSong #Resistance Music #BlackWomen @pgstluce @faraichideya taken in Lincoln Center by @nyashalaing

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The Forest Remembers is a living creative archive of shared heritage, land and Afro-Caribbean memory.

We’re preserving these stories through art, film, and research, and using them as a blueprint for a sustainable future informed by our cultural heritage.

Swipe to learn more and follow along as we build community and collective memory together.

Link in bio to support and connect🔗

#theforestremembers by @nyashalaing

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Brooklyn sent one loud and clear message: WE BELONG. Culture matters more than ever.
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#WeBelong #WahGwan #Sakpasé #Presente #LaborDayParade taken in Eastern Parkway, Brookyln by @nyashalaing

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Many thanks to the @bowerypoetry Club for believing in our vision for The Forest Remembers and hosting this wonderful event.
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To donate to help us finish the film and continue our campaign go to link in@bio or https://www.oneislandmedia.org/support-us/
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Photos by @studioazad_bkln
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#RootsReggae #TheForestRemembers #Caribbean #NYC #documentary taken in New York, New York by @nyashalaing

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Many thanks to the @bowerypoetry Club for believing in our vision for The Forest Remembers and hosting this wonderful event.
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To donate to help us finish the film and continue our campaign go to link in@bio or https://www.oneislandmedia.org/support-us/
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Photos by @studioazad_bkln
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RootsReggae #TheForestRemembers #Caribbean #NYC #documentary taken in Bowery Poetry Club by @nyashalaing

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We are so humbled by the synchronicity and resonance of our experience at The Forest Remembers and the wealth of expression we tapped into.
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A huge thanks to the artists who shared from the heart. Their work will continue to help us honor and explore land and ancestral legacies, and defy extractive histories long after this event. We were so honored to share space with you.
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Also grateful for everyone who came, crewed up, photographed and otherwise supported. You made this possible in so many small and big ways. Excited to share plans for the future. One love - community!

If you’d like to donate you can at the link in bio.
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Artist portraits by @studioazad_bkln
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#TheForestRemembers #Belize #Caribbean #FairweatherWilds #Forests. taken in Bowery Poetry Club by @nyashalaing

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Happening TOMORROW!

I’m kicking off the fundraising campaign for my film Fairweather Wilds tomorrow, August 25 at the @bowerypoetry Club.

This is a personal narrative about my grandfather and his legacy, but at its core, a story about community, land stewardship, and heritage.

The Forest Remembers is an evening of art, music, and poetry with special guest performers @tajweekes @sidmills , @drumhar , and @jafepaulino , poetry readings by @vladimirlucien and @j.s.price , and of course a special sneak preview of the film.

None of this is possible without your support!

Tickets on sale now. Link in Bio🔗

August 25, 7-9 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 taken in Bowery Poetry Club by @nyashalaing

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Special guest @tajweekes is joining us on August 25 for The Forest Remembers at @bowerypoetry Club!

Taj Weekes is a singer-songwriter and frontman for a dynamic reggae band named Adowa. Bred in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia but shaped by intercontinental life experience, he is also an unwavering, energetic humanitarian, who founded his children’s charity, They Often Cry Outreach (TOCO). His efforts have garnered him the title UNICEF Champion for Children for St. Lucia where he implements and executes various programs designed to enrich the lives of Caribbean children.

Tickets are on sale NOW for The Forest Remembers - an evening of art, music, and the official fundraising campaign kickoff for the short film Fairweather Wilds. THIS TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 at the @BoweryPoetry Club. Link in bio

August 25, 7-9 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 taken in Bowery Poetry Club by @nyashalaing

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A first look at Fairweather Wilds - A story of Belizean heritage, land, and memory🇧🇿

Join us THIS TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 at the @bowerypoetry Club for The Forest Remembers - an evening of art, music, and the official fundraising campaign kickoff for the film Fairweather Wilds!

What to expect: live performance and an exclusive early preview of Fairweather Wilds - a film that traces my grandfathers legacy, the mahogany trade in Belize, and the history of Black labor woven into that land.

We have some special guest performers and artist showcases to help us tell this story:

⚫️ Live performance from reggae singer-songwriter musician and activist Taj Weekes (@tajweekes ) and Grammy Award winning reggae artist Sidney Mills (@sidmills ), and drummer/producer Harvey Wirht (@drumhar )
⚫️Poetry readings by Vladimir Lucien (@vladimirlucien ) & Jason Price
⚫️Presentations from Film Director @nyashalaing Laing

Enjoy special Caribbean inspired cocktails at the bar. All ticket proceeds go toward the completion of the film and our community engagement projects to support the preservation of Belizean forests and cultural heritage held within them.

Be there when our story begins!
Tickets are on sale now - Link in Bio🔗

August 25, 7-9 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 taken in Bowery Poetry Club by @nyashalaing

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Also joining us at The Forest Remembers launch and fundraiser is Harvey Wirht! Link in bio. DM for discount code. Come out and support.
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Harvey was born in Suriname where he started his music career. He continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music and has since then recorded over 40 albums including “Life Overflowing” with John Tchicai and Charley Colhase, awarded outstanding album in the Boston Awards 2000.

Harvey has worked with multi Grammy winners, Angelique Kidjo, Harry Belafonte, Lauren Hill and Ziggy Marley and performed at the NAACP awards, the Jay Leno Show, the late night show with David Letterman, Good Morning America and the Peace ball for the inauguration of president Obama.

Harvey Wirht has received the “ honorary order of the yellow star “
from the Surinamese government and is the founder of the band Caribbo with ATN Stadwijk featuring Hall of fame inductee steel panist Andy Narell.
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#Documentary #Vibes #Reggae #Diaspora #Seeds by @nyashalaing

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I’m so thrilled to announce a new addition to our event The Forest Remembers, happening next Tuesday August 25 at The Bowery Poetry Club (link in bio). I’m honored Sidney Mills, who holds such strong ties to beloved greats of the early reggae movement, will add even more musical depth and power to @tajweekes set. Register and support.

Bio by @andy.brouwer below.
#TheForestRemembers #Reggae #ReggaeGuitar #Rainforests #Caribbean
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Sidney ‘Predator’ Mills is best known as being an integral part of reggae band Steel Pulse, since he joined the band on keyboards in 1988. Born in London, England in 1959, the youngest of thirty-one children, Sidney moved to Jamaica in the late sixties. He then moved to New York in 1981 and later, he played with the renowned Calabash Band and the A-Team Band backing up such celebrities as Shabba Ranks, Judy Mowatt, Beres Hammond, and Queen Latifah, to name a few. He was part of the Ras Tesfa band with Kevin Batchelor and Jerry Johnson for a couple of years. While on tour with Judy Mowatt, Sidney was asked to work with Steel Pulse where he has remained for the past fifteen years. It is his position as keyboard player and musical arranger for Steel Pulse that has placed Sidney Mills among reggae’s prominent musicians. While on tour in Brazil with Aswad and the Smashing Pumpkins, Sidney and David Hinds produced Franklin’s Tower for the album Fire On The Mountain/Reggae Celebrates The Grateful Dead. In 1998, he supervised the music for Jamaica Beat, a Blue Mountain Film and a year earlier he scored and produced the music for the soundtrack Fly By Night (TV Film).
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Sidney has also collaborated on albums released by Ziggy Marley, Shelly Thunder, Shinehead, Frankie Paul, Sister Carol, Worl-A-Girl, Shabba Ranks, Neville Brothers, Gwen Guthrie, Afire, Mikey Dread, The Meditations, Big Mountain, Glenn Washington, Kevin Batchelor and Sly & Robbie. taken in East Village, Manhattan by @nyashalaing

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Join us for The Forest Remembers on Tuesday, August 25 — an evening of art, music, and the official fundraising campaign kickoff for the short film Fairweather Wilds 🇧🇿 at the @BoweryPoetry Club

The evening will feature live performances and poetry readings and a preview of Fairweather Wilds, a short film that traces the mahogany trade in Belize and the history of Black labor woven into the land.

Musical Performances:
Taj Weekes @tajweekes
Harvey Wirht @drumhar
Sidney Mills @sidmills

Poetry Readings:
Vladimir Lucien @vladimirlucien
Jason Price
Ray Gongora

Presentation from the film’s director: Nyasha Laing @nyashalaing

All funds raised will support our campaign including the film, community events and an eco-music soundscape with nature sounds recorded in the Belize Maya Forest. Your support affirms the vital role culture plays in conservation and sustable futures. Be there when our story begins!

Tickets are on sale now - Link in Bio.

August 25, 7-9 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012

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#forests #Film #Caribbean #Reggae Belize taken in Bowery Poetry Club by @nyashalaing

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