OURCHIVES SUMMER CAMP

FlexMob™ is a natural movement system for children and families to regain strength, flexibility, and vitality through ancestral movements. Unlike routines, children need space to move as nature intended. FlexMob fosters real-world capability with benefits similar to chiropractic care, improving breathing, lung capacity, and reducing asthma symptoms without medication. 

Our critical thinking program is paradigm-shifting: It recenters Black youth, equips them with the right questions, the right reasoning, and the right research to transgress the gatekeeping of standardized lessons and racial etiquette that block self-determination. At OURCHIVES, our Think Champs learn this on Day One: They must outthink their thinkers. 

In each session, we remix Black youthful imaginations using color, texture, image, and sound to create futures the world hasn’t yet seen or heard.  Each class also features a local artist who helps draw out the talents already living inside us—echoing the legacy of African antiquity, where art was so profoundly human and deeply evolved that not one creator ever felt the need to sign their name.

Dogon Math Society is the most revolutionary math program you’ve never heard of … quietly producing the most prodigious Black young problem solvers — The Formuladies™  and Algebruhs™  — developing the skills and attitude that traditional schooling often overlooks and/or misinterprets. 

In our math universe, The Formuladies™ and Algebruhs™ aren’t rivals, they’re teammates in training, learning that every conflict is just another equation. And when things get complicated, who shows up to solve the day? The Formuladies and the Algebruhs! .

Our Black Geographies sessions expand the notion of Black indigeneity beyond Africa, encompassing Black presence and belonging across the Americas, Oceania, Asia, India, and Europe. WYA?! asserts Black emplacement as both a matter of fact and futurity.

We study the Black intellectuals and Afro-Anthropologists who carved space within a discipline that once tried to exclude them—and we prepare our children to pick up that torch.