In Its First Year, Title Track:
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Presented launch shows in Traverse City and Detroit with partner organizations at the crossroads of environmental stewardship and social justice and fantastic performers from Flint, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Traverse City.
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Was a partner at the Native Justice Coalition’s Anishinaabe Racial Justice Conference and presented a workshop for accountable accompliceship.
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Co-presented RiverQuest in Flint, in partnership with Factory Two and Girls Rock Flint, guiding Flint youth in a week-long experience beginning with kayak trips and nature walks on the Flint River led by indigenous leaders. The campers then wrote original songs inspired by their experiences on the river, and then recorded and performed for their community in a big culmination celebration.
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Co-presented the first Earthwork Detroit festival in partnership with Collective Wisdom Detroit and the D.Cipher Collective, as a fundraiser for the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), featuring a full day of wonderful programming for people of all ages including workshops in permaculture, media creation, songwriting, hip-hop dance and art, and speakers from We the People of Detroit, Detroit Hives, Michigan League of Conservation Voters and DBCFSN.
Title Track First Year in Review JAM with founder/co-executive director Seth Bernard!
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Co-presented the Water is Life Festival, an indigenous-centered celebration of water with speakers, musicians, art, community partners, and coalition-building activities at the Straits of Mackinac, in partnership with Freshwater Futures and Jannan Cornstalk.
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Presented 10 panels and 10 workshops at the Earthwork Harvest Gathering covering topics such as Native Justice, Water Equity, Youth Climate Action, Great Lakes Stewardship, Racial Equity, Food Justice, Women in Music, and more.
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Facilitated a collaborative equity-themed art project, curated music and spoke from the stage at the Council of Michigan Foundations’ annual conference, supporting the centering of equity in Michigan’s largest convening of philanthropists.
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Hosted over 50 city kids from Washington DC, New Orleans and Detroit in Northern Michigan on the Washington to Washington camping trip, experiencing Earthwork Farm and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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Our Executive Director, Seth Bernard, delivered Keynote speeches at the Beaver Island Eco Fair and the Sunrise Movement’s Green New Deal Town-hall in Grand Rapids.
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Co-presented the 5th annual Skill Swap with Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology and Human Nature School, a day of workshops fostering community resilience.
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“Passing the Torch”, the honoring of the work of the Neahtawanta Research and Education Center, took place, extending their assets and legacy to Title Track in an intergenerational community celebration.
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Staff performed and spoke at Clean Water Action’s Great Lakes awards in Lansing featuring movement leaders and elected officials.
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Partnered on the Great Lakes Water Warriors Documentary project.
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Partnered on the Songs Without Borders Immigration Justice event.
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Partnered on the Global Be-In, a 50th anniversary of Woodstock celebration created by Rachel Marco-Havens.
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Partnered on the Bob Russell Resilience Reads project.
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Convened a two-day intensive Anti-Oppression Training, the first of its kind in Northern Michigan, hosting over 40 nonprofit leaders in Traverse City.
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Presented Collaborative Songwriting for Collective Liberation workshops for the Traverse City Rotary Club, Kingsley schools, the Deep Winter Men’s Retreat, Earthwork Songwriters Retreat, and Youth Empowerment and Sustainability Summit (YESS) in Upstate NY.
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Co-presented for Doing Our Own Work, an anti-racism seminar for white folks presented by Allies for Change, which took place over the course of three weekends in Traverse City.
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Collaborated with On Stage 4 Kids for a week to bring a musical Great Lakes Stewardship presentation to K-12 schools across Northern Michigan.
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Re-branded the Clean Water Campaign podcast as State of Water and released episodes featuring interviews with leaders in the movement for clean water for all:
–Representative Yousef Rabhi, the Democratic floor leader in Lansing.
–Markie Miller, leader of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, a world-renowned Rights of Nature Project.
–Jim Olson, Founder of FLOW and a public trust law expert.
–Sean McBrearty, Political Director for Clean Water Action in Michigan.
–Monica Lewis-Patrick, “The Water Warrior”, President of ‘We the People of Detroit’ and a national frontline environmental justice leader.
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Completed production on the second Clean Water Campaign mini-documentary series, featuring forthcoming interviews with Northern Michigan community leaders:
–Joe Short, Founder of Short’s Brewing Company and Title Track Board Member.
–Jim Lively, Program Director for the Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities
–Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director of FLOW
–Ella Skrocki, Manager of Sleeping Bear Surf and Kayak
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Tabled and spoke at Michigan music festivals including Lively Lands, Founders Fest, and Farm Block Fest.
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Collaborated with Michigan businesses like The Livery, Iron Fish Distillery, and the Fresh Five Crew.
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Was celebrated in news outlets including Detroit MetroTimes, the Record Eagle, the Northern Express, Local Spins, the Ticker, and 9&10 News.
Since the escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic, Title Track has launched a successful campaign to Support Native Elders in partnership with the Native Justice Coalition and in coordination with elder care programs at three Northern Michigan tribes, hosted a Zoom tutorial for resilience and resourcefulness with brotha James to help change makers learn the platform and strengthen the community network in the process, and partnered on the Rise in Resiliency series with Aria Everts, and presented workshops on creativity, equity, and somatic healing via zoom.
In One Year Since Our Launch…
21,000+ video views
2,000+ podcast streams
1,700 newsletter subscribers
200+ Individual donors
We’ve successfully collaborated with over 50 partner organizations…
And our collective efforts have touched the lives of over 5,000 kids!
All of this has happened with only three part-time employees, three contractors, seven board members, and a handful of advisers and volunteers.
And we’re just getting started.
