Spotlight Sundays: Earthseed Screening with People’s Kitchen Collective and Emory Douglas
Spotlight Sundays: Earthseed Screening with People’s Kitchen Collective and Emory Douglas
5月 17 from 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
1–3 pm | Documentary Screening | James Moore Theater
3–4:30 pm | Collective Presentation and Gathering | OMCA Garden
Join us for a special gathering showcasing stories of survival and resilience through food culture and ancestral wisdom with People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC) and Understory. This event will begin with a screening of the documentary Earth Seed: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality by filmmaker Fox Nakai and PKC. Rooted in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable series and the legacy of the Black Panther Party’s community engagement strategies, this film maps the Earth Seed pilgrimage through five regions of California.
After the screening, we will gather in OMCA’s Garden where Jocelyn Jackson, co-founder of PKC, will lead us in a series of Earth Seed testimonies and spoken word musings by fellow PKC co-founders Võ Hải and Sarai Bordeaux. Then we will welcome special guest speaker,revolutionary artist, and former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, Emory Douglas, to share on the power of community collectives.
Immerse yourself in their inspiring stories while enjoying nourishing food by worker-owned Understory, and play to win a curated “go-bag” containing unique pieces inspired by the Parable series. Radical Hospitality is a powerful strategy toward strengthening our interconnectedness. We welcome you to share in this unifying community experience.
About People’s Kitchen Collective
People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC) works at the intersection of art and activism as a food-centered political education project. Based in Oakland, our crew and creative practices reflect the diverse histories and backgrounds of the city. Written in our families’ recipes are the maps of our migrations and stories of our resilience. From this foundation, we create immersive experiences that honor the shared struggles of our people. We believe in radical hospitality as a strategy to address the urgent social issues of our time.
About EARTH SEED
Led by PKC, EARTH SEED is rooted in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable series and the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. By enacting radical hospitality as a survival practice, we deepen our relationships with BIPOC activists, artists, educators, farmers, youth, and elders. EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands from 三月 – 6月 2023. PKC visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future. Spanning across the native lands of the Tongva, Yokut, Mutsun, Ohlone, Miwok and Pomo tribes in California, each part of the pilgrimage focuses on a different element (Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Wood).
About Understory
Understory was founded in 2020 by Lily Fahsi-Haskell, Jenabi Pareja, Nino Serrano, and Florencio Esquivel to address the impact the COVID-19 pandemic was having on workers of color within the restaurant industry. With diverse backgrounds as chefs, artists, and movement organizers, they dared to create a collaborative restaurant model that centers worker agency, access, inclusion, and radical community care. Their governance model ensures decisions are made collectively, cultivating trust, accountability, and empowerment.
About Jocelyn Jackson
Jocelyn is a cook, activist, and artist working at the intersection of food, art, and social justice. Her current projects include Executive Producer of the Life is Living Festival, JUSTUS Kitchen co-creating healing food experiences for Black women, and co-founder of People’s Kitchen Collective. Jocelyn is co-lead artist, co-director, writer, and executive producer of PKC’s documentary film project, EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality. It is a practice in collective survival inspired by Octavia Butler and the Black Panther Party. Jocelyn just completed her Chef-in-Residency at the Museum of the African Diaspora in SF.
About Sarai Bordeaux
Sarai is a poet, scholar, educator, facilitator, and model. She holds a MA of Education in Equity and Social Justice focused on liberatory and transformational learning experiences. She has been connected with People’s Kitchen Collective for over ten years, serving as a conceptual partner, as well as front of house and logistics for gatherings. Sarai is the current Poet Laureate of Eureka, Ca and her most recent publication appears in When We Exhale: An Anthology of Black Women Rooted In Ancestral Medicine from Black Freighter Press. Her work can also be found in Patrice Lumumba: An Anthology or Writers on Black Liberation.
About Võ Hải
Hải is a queer Việt passionate about traditional food(ways), home(land), and partum care, whose family and ancestors are from southern Việt Nam – Mỹ Tho and Chợ Gạo. A guiding proverb for Hải towards community organizing is “Một cây làm chẳng nên non, ba cây chụm lại nên hòn núi cao”. It translates to one tree provides little strength, three trees together allow us to reach high mountains – that when we come together, we can achieve anything and change the world. Hải is a member of the QTViệt Cafe Collective dedicated to Queer and Trans Việt liberation.
About Emory Douglas
Emory Douglas attended City College of San Francisco where he majored in commercial art. He was the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 2月 1967 until the early 1980’s. Douglas’s iconic art and design concepts were staples of the more than 530 Black Panther Newspapers, communicating the politics of the BPP and the concerns of the community in an easy-to-understand, immediate visual form. His art was meant to be an inspiring call to oppressed and colonized peoples. Douglas continues to produce political art that captures the power and urgency of global social justice.
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