Located among pristine woodlands in the Ryerson historic home in Riverwoods, Il., Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods promotes the importance of nature for nurturing personal and community wellbeing, cultivating creativity, and inspiring learning.
June 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Initiatives
Health Equity and Nature AcceleratorRadical Hope in the Woods: Juneteenth Edition
Join Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods for the final gathering in our Radical Hope in the Woods series as we honor Juneteenth through reflection, movement, storytelling, and collective imagination.
Together, we will walk the trails of Ryerson Woods and explore what freedom has meant across generations—and what freedom can become. Grounded in the histories of resistance, survival, and joy carried by our ancestors, this experience invites participants to reconnect with the land while reimagining Black futures through the lens of Afrofuturism, healing, and radical possibility.
This special gathering will also serve as a birthday celebration for the facilitator—an intentional honoring of life, legacy, and community.
Through guided conversation, moments of stillness, and community connection, we will ask:
- What does freedom feel like in our bodies?
- What dreams did our ancestors carry for us?
- What future are we brave enough to imagine together?
This is more than a walk.
It is a remembering.
A reclaiming.A celebration of life. A collective act of hope.
All are welcome to gather, reflect, and dream forward in community.
Radical Hope in the Woods is supported by Healing Illinois. Healing Illinois is a racial healing initiative of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) and the Field Foundation of Illinois.
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