Come We Grow
A sharing event celebrating the end of the Hip Hop Gardens programme by May Project Gardens.
Using Hip Hop and permaculture values Hip Hop Gardens supports and empowers a group of young people with refugee backgrounds, residing in Bristol.
Over a series of workshops in September the programme will focus on five key modules: Wellbeing, Food Growing & Cooking, Enterprise and Employability, Event Management and lastly Hip Hop, Social Movement and Green Structures. This programme methodology incorporates environmentalism & Hip Hop through song writing, music production and performances.
About the Co-Founders of May Project Gardens
Mohammed Yahya (MoYah) is MPGs HHGN ambassador and co-facilitated Bristol´s first HHGN programme in 2022/23 alongside Ian. He is the co-founder of the Afro-Caribbean duo Native Sun, an established artist, poet, educator and event organiser. He uses rap and spoken word to promote equality, social justice and environmental change. Born in Mozambique during a 16-year war, MoYah was forced to flee his country as a political refugee at a young age. He has first hand experience of the impact that both access to nature and access to music can have on inclusion, expression and success.
KMT (Ian), is a highly experienced and dedicated artist who has spent over two decades using the medium of hip-hop to inspire positive social change and bring attention to a wide range of important social issues. His unwavering passion for environmental conservation and preservation is just one aspect of his advocacy work. Since designing the community-led food growing space May Project Gardens, using permaculture principles, KMT mentors young people, nurturing ideas and fueling passions through music and a connection to the environment, through a 6 month leadership programme called Hip Hop Gardens.
May Project Gardens is an award-winning, London and Bristol-based grassroots organisation. They empower marginalised groups to address poverty, disempowerment and access to resources and influence. MPG provide practical, affordable, and collective solutions for people to live sustainably and challenge power structures that don’t serve their interests. They do this using what they consider universally connecting tools – nature, food and creative arts – to foster people’s personal transformation, which collectively leads to social change.
Part of the Platforma festival 2023, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
