Callaloo Instituto de Magia

"Vibrations exist in all t'ings and all t'ings exist in a vibe--both in 'dem own spaces, wit' dem own rhythms, in 'dem own times,"

Academics

Callaloo offers courses in:

• Restorative Ecology (related to Transfiguartion and Herbology)
• Mutualism & Symbiosis (related to Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology)
• Craftsmanship & Toolmaking
• Ritual Arts (Mixed Martial Arts/Dance/Music/Potionmaking, related to DADA, Charms and Potions)
• Cosmology & Astrometry (relate to Astronomy, Arithmancy and Divination)
• Vibing (a form of research, divination and knowledge production/reproduction)
• Fair Trade & Cultural Exchange (related to History of Magic)
• Internal Gyrations (involves controlling inertia/momentum and mastering spatial coordination. Related to Flying Lessons, Arithmancy and Apparition)
• Glyph & Mentalism (Involves magical Psycholinguistics, Occlumency/Legilimency and related to Ancient Runes)

They are also notorious for having two, seemingly contradictory, extracurriculars called Fiends and Fêtes. Fiends are the magical equivalent of the "forest guardians", the northern Ka’apor people and the southeastern Kayapo Warriors. Students can enroll as first years, but only participate in their later years after passing an exam that demonstrates that they can destroy property and engage in psychological warfare with illegal loggers/poachers without ever being seen. Fêtes is mainly focused on organizing celebrations, holidays, events, and ceremonies catered towards the cultural diversity of the Callaloo student body and geared towards uplifting spirits.

References

"Callaloo was nomadic and travel, lessons, and etc were sustained by a minimal amount of magical tools and a give-and-take with local resources. It allowed them to learn how to play to each other's strengths and weaknesses, how to conduct interspecies lessons, how to manage ecological resources, and how to facilitate cultural exchanges between the magical and non-magical mish mash of Circum-Caribbean cultures. Second, the social, political and economic isolation of Callaloo, and of the cultures they interacted with, meant their conflicts had never developed into a muggle/magic dichotomy.

Their grief came from the Western World.

Specifically, how both the mundane and magical Western World would exploit land, cultures, and resources, during almost every moment of every day… and so they were always in some sort of survival mode." - Naomi Foley in Gon' Clear a Way for Meh Self

Alumni

• Naomi Foley spent half her fourth year and all her fifth year at Callaloo
• Much of The Afamdi Family