African Soup Kitchen and Mancala Club

Our founder and Berg Global Artist-in-Residence Fellow at Vanderbilt, Ekene Ijeoma, will be cooking Nigerian okra soup with mixed seafood and learning to cook a new soup from a guest (TBA). We’ll also have mancala boards on the tables for open play. Towards the end of the event we’ll be raffling 4 of our Black Forest School Crates. Tickets for the soup and crate are available for presale at bf.world/soup-frog. We’re looking for volunteers so please message us if you’re interested. One tree at a time, we’re growing our Black Forest, now with more than 600 trees across 8 states, including 200 in the South Bronx and soon 40 across Nashville this Fall 2026. One installation at a time, we’re building our Black nature library through Black Forest School, a series of programs and network of spaces (including libraries) focused on archiving and presenting Black perspectives on nature across various forms of expression and modes of knowledge.