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Swamp Jam is a celebration of environmental justice work, past present and future. An open door for those looking to make an impact in their communities. A space that places art, artists and culture as essential to the world we are building. 

Join us in conversations, experiential learning, shared meals, dynamic participatory workshops, lots of play, and immersive art. We will engage ideas around local and national climate policy, building backyard solutions for everyday life, and creative pathways into environmental justice work. We will also have space to process the grief around what we have lost and honor the possibilities for what we can still create together. 

Welcome
12 PM

Orientation with Grounded Possibilities co-founders Monét and Derrick
with music by Shana Tucker

PRAXIS PREP
12 PM – 5 PM

A menu of experiential workshops and art installations

JAMBOREE
6–9:00 PM

featuring music by

Professor X
Katie Blvd
Lance Scott and Friends

And Our Headliner

Theo Croker

What You Need to Know

  • We're here for the community builders, tree huggers, muckrackers, organizers, artists, accidental leaders, solution seekers, world builders, dreamers, and folks who don’t know what do you but are willing and ready to try

  • Grounded Possibilities Commissioned Artists 2026
    Benny Starr & Majesty Royale-Jackson

    Speakers

    Sawdayah Brownlee

    Rev. William “Bill” Kearney, Warren County Environmental Action Team

    Dr. Rania Masri, North Carolina Environmental Justice Network

    Judge Beverly A. Scarlett, Indigenous Memories

    Delphine Sellars, Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN)

    Brittaney Whitenhill, Our Backyard LLC

  • The Swamp Jam is one of our offerings to strengthen our collective imagination around environmental justice work, and center artists as important context experts.

  • Reciprocene, a term created by Derrick Beasley in 2025, is a speculative anthropological age that describes a time when humans, non-human kin and the planet are in reciprocal relationship. The planet has changed and we have all changed in response. Because there is yet possibility in apocalypse.

OUR SPONSORS

Grounded Possibilities is funded by the Hive Fund and fiscally sponsored by Southern Vision Alliance.