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Fall Equinox gathering: Stories and streams
Vital Matters’ Mutual Aid Mondays is a series of gatherings that launched on Inauguration Day, 2025, to connect with one another in nourishing and productive ways, and to exchange ideas, resources, tenderness, and care for each other and the communities we care about--particularly those who are most vulnerable at this moment. This feels like the vital foundation for any of the work we do, the art we create or curate, or the battles we help fight.
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Our 5th Mutual Aid Monday is an event for the whole family. It's an opportunity to gather around themes inspired by the Fall Equinox, and a special chance to hear about Vital Matters Crossways project, and meet some of the folks from the Gwynns Falls Community who will be working on it with us.
Crossways is a multi-phase, community-based project that facilitates connections between and across communities and their local city watersheds through the arts. We begin in West Baltimore with the Gwynns Falls Watershed, and plan to engage communities in the Back River, Jones Falls, and Patapsco River Watersheds.
This event invites our partners in Gwynns Falls to join the conversation about how we continue to cultivate and deepen our commitment to Joy, Solidarity and Mutual Aid practices. As we meet this day of equal night and day, we are invited to consider how equity and reciprocity live in all our relationships, to each other, the natural world, the water and land that sustain us.
We will share stories of water, community, and finding balance. As we harvest what has grown in us that is truly of use to us now, and let go of what no longer serves, we can move into the fall season with greater clarity. Bring a story of the water where you live, or where you grow up. There is only one water on Planet Earth, and by weaving stories, we can remember the ways we are all connected.
We will have:
--A potluck picnic--bring your favorite picnic food or beverage
--Eco-Somatic Grounding and Connecting to Earth and each other
--Collage and other activities for kids
--Stories and Songs from Vital Matters, members of the Gwynns Falls community, and you!
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ABOUT US
Founded in 2021, in Baltimore, Maryland, Vital Matters is a hub and laboratory for cross-disciplinary events, artistic projects, and educational programs for all ages. We work with artists, activists and others to stage conversations, create rituals, and transform spaces and relationships among and between human and more-than-human communities. The climate crisis, environmental injustice, and systemic racism are part of the human inheritance that motivates us. Our focus and our reach are both local and global. Our primary tools for transformation are partnership, collaboration, joy, and creativity. Our methods draw from many sources, including experimental theatre, somatic movement education, and abolitionist approaches to social life and organziational leadership. We invite you to join us in shaping change, and imagining and creating a just and vital future for all.