WHERE THEORY MEETS PRAXIS:
A school for black feminist worldbuilding and creative actualization.
Seeda School offers an annual membership supporting you with establishing and monetizing a creative practice in alignment with your values and deepest desires.
Join Us Inside The Treehouse
Fall 2024 Treehouse Syllabus
Finally, a school for black feminist worldbuilders.
Outlined in the syllabus is the next 3 months of Treehouse programming, supporting you with establishing a creative practice, releasing weekly, list-building dispatches and creating an income generating offer.
We recommend printing this one out and getting your highlighter and pen ready! She's juicy, full of citations and insights on creative practice.
Release a Creative Offer in 9 Weeks
Whether you're a multi-hyphenate returning to your creative practice or you're looking to seed a creative practice, the quarterly "Seed A World" retreat will help you get clarity on how your various skills and curiosities weave into an interdisciplinary practice funding a world of your own design.
9
Weeks
9
Course Modules
9
Live Open Studios
1
Revenue Generating Offer
Fall 2024 Tuition
$1,500
Payment Plans Available
Join Us Inside The Treehouse
Your creative permission creates space for our collective imagination. Join us inside The Treehouse and learn how to access your creative desires, establish a public practice through weekly dispatches and release an income generating offer to fund your creative practice. The best part? You won't do any of it alone.
Let's Build New WorldsA Creative Homecoming
Return to your creative practice, return to your creative spirit, return to yourself. How The Treehouse works...
Desire
STEP 1
Cultivate the nervous system level capacity to feel worthy of your deepest desires and learn to trust the financial viability of your creative practice. We remember our pleasure is not a safety hazard or a threat to our survival.
Practice
STEP 2
After, during, while cultivating a somatic sense of safety, worthiness and trust in your desire, you will establish a public creative practice through weekly dispatches. Nurture your audience while nurturing your desire.
Resource
STEP 3
Now that you have an active public practice and an engaged email list, we will support you in developing and marketing an income generating offer to fund your creative practice rooted in your desire.
Why World Building?
We know this place as the North Carolina Black River, they know it as Cykofa. A parallel universe suspended among past and future — where cornrows are cryptography keys, data farms are data forests, the weaving loom is a computer, cotton is encoded with freedom dreams, and chain link fencing from demolished prisons is used as architectural membrane woven with plant life. In Cykofa the trees have learned to communicate using the data Cykofians have encoded in the tree’s DNA and tree ring memory.
In 2021, Seeda School founder Ayana Zaire Cotton developed and self-published Cykofa: The Seeda Origin Story, an experimental speculative fiction novella told through the journal entries of a non-binary biotechnologist named Seeda and the found data within an ancient, 2,600+ year-old bald cypress tree named Cy. The people of Cykofa have traditionally hosted their data within the DNA of the trees, but what happens when Seeda discovers a rip in the dendrochronological memory, exposing select datasets from our world?
Leveraging over a decade's worth of experience visioning and releasing interdisciplinary projects, today Ayana enjoys a transdisciplinary practice where she's able to braid opportunities in form of fine art and biotechnology residencies, software engineering fellowships, guest lecturing on design, invitations to be a keynote listener at creative conferences, acceptance into artist focused business incubator, institutionally sponsored writing retreats and more by using the framework of world building to weave and clearly communicate her constellation of skills, curiosities and offers.
Read
Subscribe and receive weekly love letters on building practices, projects and worlds in alignment with divine desire.
Listen
Listen to the weekly podcast "For the Worldbuilders" where we reflect on black feminist worldbuilding and creative actualization.
Watch
Watch the weekly "For the Worldbuilders" podcast episodes on YouTube to get to know your Seeda School steward.
