Holding space for our stories, our healing and our Blackness.
Exploring are blackness through writing, poetry and the art of orature.
The Coven is a rite of passage and interdisciplinary creation space centering Black women, femmes, and gender-expansive beings. Founded by Shiann Croft (aka Sincerely Shyy), we exist at the crossroads of ancestral healing, cultural memory, and performance-based storytelling.
We are a hybrid institution: part digital archive, part media studio, part healing collective.
Through art, movement, sound, and storytelling—we remember what colonialism tried to erase.
Our pillars, passion + purpose
“🌑 ABOUT US
Our mission is to reclaim Black stories, preserve cultural knowledge, and create sacred space for healing. The Coven is rooted in Black feminist futurism, Afro-Indigenous cosmologies, and the sacred technologies passed down by our grandmothers. We believe in building a world where care is currency, art is a portal, and community is medicine.”
Healing through
intersectionality.
Spaces for those who speak in poetry, proverbs and prophecy. Spaces to incite rebellions. Spaces to heal the inner child of Black women + femmes. These spaces are sincerely for our songs to be sung, stories to be heard, and voices venerated. This is where we remember.
Healing through storytelling.
Here we tell our stories - to honour our herstory + correct his-stories. Here we write - to preserve the cultural art of storytelling. Here we write to heal and archive our truths, wisdoms and magick, for the stories of our foremothers whose names we know, and those we do not.
Come + write with us as we script new narratives that nurture healing of self + generations yet to come.
Healing through community.
The Coven’s cohorts, circles + classes are developed for us. These sacred spaces are carefully curated by a council of over 32 black + indigenous medicine makers, wellness practitioners, educators of the arts, thought leaders of psychotherapy, herbalism + more. The spaces we create are multidisciplinary + multi-faceted, intersectional + trauma-informed - a sincere reflection of the communities we serve.
Our most esteemed space - The Co-oven - explores the effects of ancestral trauma on mental health whilst offering healing through the reclamation of dance, storytelling, herbalism and indigenous + ancestral healing traditions.
Until now, the coven has been a space shared with the community through yearly cohorts. We are proud to announce that the growth of this space, its facilitators + and students have, in turn, allowed us to birth new offerings. These include membership options, subsidiary workshops, payment plans, bursaries + bonus perks - so that we can further nurture the needs + inclusivity of our communities. Find out more.
“Each of us is here now because in one way or another we share a commitment to language and to the power of language, and to the reclaiming of that language which has been made to work against us….what are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day?
Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears.
Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian.
Because I am myself- a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - come to ask are you doing yours?”— Audrey Lorde