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Coffee Ritual & Place-Conscious Dialogue

Neighbours seated on chairs and blankets in John Rebecca Park, lending their ears to place-conscious dialogue under a young tree.
Pamoja Cultural Collective hosting a Coffee Ritual and place-conscious dialogue at John Rebecca Public Park in Hamilton, September 2025. Photography by Ponders.

This placemaking event brought our ancestral East African practice of Coffee Ritual into the heart of downtown Hamilton.

Through coffee, music, treaty-informed storytelling, and conversation, we created a space for community connection in a public park.

The event was made possible through the City of Hamilton Downtown Placemaking Grant.

It was another opportunity to take a practice rooted in our own traditions and bring it into relationship with the place we now call home.