Refuge Worldwide and Spore Initiative partner on exhibition opening

Welto & the Sacred Bush is a group exhibition that engages with Caribbean gardening cultures as blueprints for ecological repair. We are excited to partner with local cultural centre Spore Initiative on the launch of their exhibition Welto & the Sacred Bush: Learning from Caribbean Gardens . From 6pm on June 6th, we will host an evening program based aroundshared learning, movement, and sound. The event includes a guided tour with participating artists, followed by two DJ sets inspired by Caribbean musical cultures and diasporic soundscapes.

In collaboration with the Martinique-based association Permactivie, Welto and the Sacred Bush finds its roots in the cultural and botanical knowledge cultivated at the margins of plantation systems. The exhibition also brings together ancestral plant practices, communal land care, and artistic responses to environmental collapse. It foregrounds the role of children—not as passive inheritors of crisis, but as active participants in imagining relational, land-based futures. Developed in collaboration with artists and thinkers from the Caribbean and its diasporas, Welto and the Sacred Bush considers the garden and the cultural practices surrounding it as a living archive of resistance, care, and regeneration.

DJs Ka Dansé and Jefe Marrón, from the Refuge Worldwide resident roster, will soundtrack the evening session with their individual love letters to Caribbean music. Program 18:00 – Doors open 19:00 – Welcome by Antonia Alampi, Artistic Director, Spore Initiative 19:30 – Guided tour with artists Mawongany, Annalee Davis, and Isambert Duriveau 20:30 – DJ set: Ka Dansé 22:00 – DJ set: Jefe Marrón