Earth School

Earth School is a holistic approach to intergenerational healing and connecting to ancestral roots. This school leads a cohort of students through gardening education, energy conservation and climate mitigation, woodworking, spiritual practices, and building community with a focus on queer and trans individuals of the Vietnamese diaspora. We want to provide a model for community resilience in the face of climate change and the need for emergency preparedness.  By making this work inter-generational and deeply cultural, we ensure that practices that care for our earth – water, energy, climate – are inherently ancestral.  We return to our ancestral ways – which inherently care for our resources – and model this with other diasporic, immigrant, refugee communities. The development of this QTViệt Earth School is rooted in the belief that Culture is Power. We create this cultural healing hub as a way to ensure that our community can gather, respond to, and influence political and economic change. By centering the leadership of our QTViệt community and being in eco-solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color around us in our neighborhood, we strengthen our capacity to protect each other during times of unrest and to care for each other into the future.

For our past work from our cohort: QT Viet Cafe (arcgis.com)

The Earth School is an ongoing project and we would love to have you on board! Contact us via Instagram @qtvietcafe or via email qtvietcafe@gmail.com