ACROSS INNER LANDSCAPES is a community earth altar experience and offering of ritual beauty at the Tenderloin People’s Garden.

Sourcing Earth elements in the form of local and ancestral flowers, leaves, seeds, minerals … we will honor the Ohlone land upon which we dwell and the lands of our lineages to co-create a community mandala / earth altar where we are invited to release our sorrows, give thanks, celebrate our joy and call in the futures we dream of. We will reclaim who we are as beauty-bearers, as beloved, as healers and changemakers. We will remember our possibility, our abundance, our expansiveness. We will remember ourselves whole.

Connecting with the Earth is spirit work — it’s where we find our deepest healing. Our ancestors knew this. This is an invitation to remember. We will traverse our inner landscapes and create acts of beauty and connection with each flower, leaf, and seed, lovingly placed. In doing so, we re-discover and re-imagine the horizons of possibility for our selves, our communities, and our dreams. 

Earth altar plant materials generously donated by: Gardens of Golden Gate Park, Heart of City Farmers Market, Lunaria Flower Farm, Sisterhood Gardens

Producing Artist : Terry Lily Hwang
Movement Director : Patricia Baretto Ong
Movement Artists : Kim Requesto, SPULU,  tashi tamate weiss