The Temple of Our Survival (Children of NAN: A Survival Guide)  is a film for future black femmes. A series of performed philosophies, myths, rituals, survival strategies on various landscapes staged in a mobile set handcrafted by Alisha B Wormsley.

The Temple of our Survival - the mobile film set - or altar - is a 16 x 20 ft tent quilted on the outside with African and African American quilting language and text, inside draped with hand printed textiles, handwoven rugs, tapestries, plant medicine, hanging plants, drying herbs, imagery of Wormsley’s ancestors and past video work of Black Matriarchy, a library on Black femme survival, ancestor altars, a footbath, a typewriter, a loom, and crafts for quilting and weaving circles. All made, grown and collected by Wormsley. There is an area dedicated to rest, a table and chairs for spades, breaking bread and preparing. Another section dedicated to meditation, and apothecary, an area to read and write with a small library.  

Over the next 2 years, Wormsley will travel the Temple of Our Survival around the country to various matriarchal/femme activists, hood witches, healers, makers and liberators to perform one tutorial, lesson or story of their daily survival within land sacred to them.