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Posted: Feb 19, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 19 The organizers behind Buy Black Birchtown are working to create a retreat and learning centre that will be open for bookings this summer.(Jessika Hepburn) In Shelburne County, a few minutes from the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, sits three hectares of waterfront woodland set to become a retreat for Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC). The area was once home to Nova Scotia s largest settlement of Black Loyalists, who fled north in the late 1700s with the promise of refuge, and instead faced racism and poor living conditions. The organizers of an initiative called Buy Black Birchtown hope to create a place that honours that history. ....
White-owned retreat centres often leave BIPOC folks needing a retreat from the retreat.” click to enlarge Members of Change Is Brewing Collective, Vanessa Hartley of SEED (South End Environmental Injustice Society) and Buy Black Birchtown co-founder Lauryn Guest on the Birchtown property Jessika Hepburn “Why are all retreat spaces owned by rich white folks?” and “Why can’t we own our own spaces?” were the questions Lauryn Guest and Jessika Hepburn asked themselves that led to the initiative Buy Black Birchtown. When Guest was a child, she didn’t always feel she was prioritized in the camps she attended. “Camps should be fun right? For kids, it shouldn’t bring anxieties or anything like that,” they say. “We just really ....