Freedom's Tree: A Fundraiser for Every Campus A Refuge at Guilford College
Join us for Freedom’s Tree: a moving evening of music, art, food, and storytelling in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Every Campus A Refuge’s founding chapter at Guilford College, the very first ECAR chapter, and the seed of a national campus resettlement movement.
Hosted at New Garden Friends Meeting, the event will feature a special musical performance. Inspired by the Underground Railroad Tree in the Guilford Woods, Freedom’s Tree, lyrics and music by Carolyn F. Hall, is a song cycle for soprano, viola and piano in which the soprano, as the voice of this tulip poplar tree, tells what the tree might have seen, heard and felt as African Freedom Seekers came through the woods on their way to freedom from oppression.
The event will also include reflections from ECAR leaders, former refugee guests, and a screening of Ṣawt, highlighting Marwa and Ali, Iraqi refugees who were welcomed to Guilford’s campus during the first Trump administration's Refugee/Muslim Ban.
Enjoy a delicious international bake sale (with preorder options), locally prepared food (including to-go boxes ), and browse ECAR books, swag, and materials.
Tickets are $25 (with a sliding scale option). All proceeds support ECAR’s mission to transform Guilford College and other college campuses into communities of welcome.
