Our Vision.
Flatbush Mixtape is an emerging neighborhood organization that serves our neighbors through relationship building, providing direct services, & knitting together existing networks.
We envision Flatbush Mixtape as a community collective and podcast that centers and amplifies the voices of the people of Flatbush using oral history, intergenerational wisdom, interactive events, art, culture, and music. Created to cultivate healing in a community with a rich and complex history, our intention is to move beyond the forces that divided our neighborhood into boxes along the lines of race, class and wealth.
This is how we remix the narrative.
Founded in 2020 at the height of Revolution, Flatbush Mixtape began as a community clean up on Flatbush and Caton Avenue. Our first large scale project is an event being planned for January 31st which aims to bring together over 25 neighborhood organizations in the spirit of unity and in service of the people of Flatbush. This event re-imagines what community looks like through relationship-building, providing direct services, and knitting together existing networks. Grounded in restorative and transformative justice principles and practices, our work aims to ground Heaven on Earth culture in our community.
Flatbush Mixtape Vol. 1, is an event to be held on the southeast corner of Prospect Park, on the eve of the winter solstice, on the traditional unceded land of the Lenape. Flatbush is now home to one of the largest and most diverse Afro-Caribbean communities outside of the region itself.
We stand in solidarity with Black & Indigenous lives. We are proud to support the work of activists, community organizers and neighborhood leaders who have worked tirelessly to create liberation in the face of the many injustices that undermine the connection and wellbeing of our communities.
We believe that no one is free until we all are free. We are the keepers of our sisters and brothers. We celebrate our differences and honor our diverse experiences.
This is Flatbush.