SPREAD YOUR SEEDS
Wednesday April 11th, 7-10pm at the Kelsey Museum of Archeology on State Street
A group of graduating seniors is organizing a heartfelt event in honor of an incredibly important cause: Spread Your Seeds The evening launch event will include “food, friends, the opportunity to buy and sponsor necklaces, artistic and creative outlets (painting wall! reflection journals!), planting stations, music, and most importantly–the chance to cultivate community. This will be a space where people can gather, meet new friends, create art, conversation, and community–to become grounded and rooted together.” Bring a dish to pass, instruments, $10 in cash for purchasing necklaces and seeds, and most importantly, yourself.
To get more information, check out the website and the Facebook event
“When we lose our grounding, we lose ourselves. The solution? Find a way to ground yourself wherever you are: through community, art, sharing, and of course, love. In other words: Spread Your Seeds.
Spread Your Seeds is a growing organization devoted to helping root community and prevent isolation. The premise is simple: as a community, we hope to de-stigmatize depression, starting right here on the U of M campus. We raise money by selling handcrafted necklaces, composed of vials filled with local, Michigan seeds. The wearer can scatter the seeds anywhere that makes them feel at home or at peace–to remind them that they are connected to the world. The money we make from selling necklaces will all be directed toward different projects to build a community of understanding about depression.
Our first project is creating a collaborative children’s book about depression–the idea for which came from a community member who suffered deeply from depression. We hope the book can be a positive step toward making depression a more understood and less taboo social topic. We hope it will educate kids at an early age that depression, like other mental illnesses, is not a personality flaw, but a very serious disease that can be overcome when addressed and understood fully.”
Come and root yourself in the wholesome celebration of life and the effort on behalf of this organization to cultivate a sense of compassion and understanding.
(Logo design by Ellen Rutt of The MORE Show)
