This September We Are
Doing Something WILD!
On behalf of the artists, storyweavers, creators, goddesses, healers, witches, and conjurers, we are hosting our first annual gala, Wild! Dinner & Theater in the Woods on the September 22nd equinox. This celebration kicks off our capital campaign to transform our 300 acres of land in upstate New York into a healing and reconciliation center stewarded by Black and Native American women.
This feast under stars is not only a gathering and honoring of visionaries and leaders but also an integration of the arts and nature as we showcase our first Artist-in-Residence, bi-racial composer Miranda Ferriss Jones and her original musical about sacred sisterhood, The Precipice.
"The Precipice affirms that the greatest threat to an oppressive society is a sisterhood bound together in unbridled freedom and radical love."
WILD! In the Woods is a celebration to honor the primordial wisdom of women.​
Our healing is entangled with the healing of the Earth and with each other across identities.
Mistress of Ceremony:
Staceyann Chin
Honoring WILD! Visionaries & Luminaries
During our dinner in the Woods, we will announce sacred spaces that will be built on the land at Restore Forward in honor of supporters and partners of Black Women’s Blueprint, and women whose extraordinary work and enduring legacies enrich our lives.
Tarana Burke
Recy Taylor Centers
People of the Flint/ Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Iakow:he'ne' Oakes accepting in honor of ONyaota'a:ka families, our future and our ancestors that came before us
People of the Standing Stone/ Onyota'a:ka
Lisa Latocha accepting in honor of ONyaota'a:ka families, our future and our ancestors that came before us
Abigail Disney
Legacy Theater
Monica Dennis
Peace and Meditation Garden
Imara Jones
Sacred Haven
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Feminist Sanctuary Cabins
Food Sovereignty Farm
Dara Cooper
Dorothy Pitman Hughes
Legacy Forest East
Adeline Azrack
Dreamer’s Meeting Point
Johnnetta B. Cole
Feminist Sanctuary Cabins
Ntozake Shange
Legacy Forest South
Ariel Jacobson
Children’s Natural Playscape
Korea Kelly
Runway Through the Trees
Luz Marquez Benbow
Holistic Medicine Grove
adrienne maree Brown
Spaces for Earth and Radical Imagination
Autumn Brown
Spaces for Earth and Radical Imagination
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Library for Black Feminist Ancestors
The
Precipice​
The Precipice is a dark fairytale of forbidden sisterhood that asks the question"What will you do when they come for your wildness?"
The Precipice tells the story of a friendship between two young girls from very different worlds. As the girls become women they must navigate a narrow path to preserve their identities in an oppressive society determined to keep them stifled and apart.
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After two wildly successful salons in NYC, our first artist-in-residence Miranda Farriss Jones and a Tony-Award winning Broadway cast will perform selections from The Precipice on our new outdoor stage
Miranda Ferriss Jones
Composer & Lyricist
Featured Artist-in-Residence
Laura Benanti
Creative Producer
For Women Everywhere
As part of our $5 million capital campaign to raise funds to develop this land, we are committed to donating a percentage of all funds raised to rape-crisis services where women’s bodies have become the battlefield in war.
For the women of Haiti
For the women of the Sudan
For the women of the Congo
For the women of Gaza
For the women of Israel
For the women of the Ukraine
For women everywhere!
Event
Co-chairs
Abby Epstein
Aleyamma Matthew
Angie Wang
Cecile Lipworth
Hon. Helen Rosenthal,
NYC Councilmember,
District 6 (2014-2021)
Iakowi:he'ne' Oakes
Jamia Wilson
Kenya Crumel
Nancy Rebold
Susan Shah
Host Committee
Dailisha Eve Rodriguez
Maria Neve
Alicia Luhrssen-Zombek
Cathline Tanis
Geraldine Deese
Dr. Yaa Elombe
Kim Waldon and Rhonda Waldon
Rosemary Didi Jordan
Whitney D. Smith
Alisha Santiago
Natalie Jeffers
Dawn Ramsey and Chekasha Ramsey
Monica Dennis
Deidra Houchen
Indira Henard
Karen Tronsgard-Scott
ML Daniel
Ed Heisler
Annika Gifford
Kelly Miller
Julian Mangano
Ashley Galligan
Portia Brown​
Tamika Charles-Sims
Ann Duckett
Coleta Walker
Lorna Hines-Cunningham
For More
Information
​For sponsorships, capital campaign & fundraising questions, contact:
Abby Epstein
Event Co-Chair
wildgala@restoreny.org
Lucienne Noel
Cooperative@restoreny.org
For FAQ and Logistics, including planning your stay
and how to get there contact:
Dailisha Rodriguez, Board Chair
workshops@restoreny.org
Production by Second Bolt
