WHAT WE DO
Touching Land is a 501(c)(3) non profit, where participants use hands-on experiential arts and mindfulness as a tool for community-building, collective grounding, healing and immigrant empowerment. We use our bodies (running), land (clay), food (decolonizing) and textiles as our main working tools.
We offer Empowerment Workshops that educate and provide support for immigrants and vulnerable populations. We also offer Building Bridges workshops that create cross-cultural connections within our complex community. Click below to learn more or read our story here.
HELP US MEET OUR GOALS
Your tax deductible donation will allow us to grow and provide our participants with freedom (e.g., metrocards), warmth (e.g., friendship, food) and educational empowerment (e.g., know your rights information, materials, firing costs, general costs) and invaluable community ties!
Become part of this force that is creating massive, positive change in your community by making a donation today!
Get Involved
Community connection is where change happens.
PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP
Would you like to participate in one of our community-building workshops? Have a friend that could benefit from our program? Let’s connect.
HOST A WORKSHOP
Would you like to host a Know Your Rights clay workshop in a ceramic studio near you? Perhaps a cooking workshop at your workplace or community center? Let’s talk.
VOLUNTEER
Volunteers give us life and it is how we connect to others and grow. We would love to know more about you and how we can amplify our voices together! Give us a shout!
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our partners
Touching Land would not be possible without the generosity and dedication of the BKLYN Clay team and its founder, Jennifer Waverek. BKLYN Clay has provided us with clay, firing support and most importantly space and visibility so that these “creative community connections” can happen.
Our partnership began in 2019, during Design Week/Wanted Design Fair at Industry City. CSM created clay vases, chairs and a clay world that provided an opportunity for the community to interact in an artistic way. Touching Land provided the immigrant participants that were integral to this cross-cultural exchange. This imagination-driven interaction, inspired a group of Sunset Park mothers to advocate for a playground for special needs children. New projects coming soon in Spring 2020.
Mofon•GO, the first Puerto Rican pop-up restaurant in the United States.The brand became one of the most recognizable restaurants where Puerto Rican culture can be celebrated through the Island’s national dish, Mofongo. We have partnered with Chef Manolo Lopez, from Mofon*GO to create cooking workshops that will provide a platform for cross-cultural exchanges where decolonizing food can occur while learning our rights!
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