Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/06/2014
4:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Side Street Projects
Category(ies)
Qachuu Aloom members from Guatemala will be visiting for the closing of Lab’ises, Amaranto, Amaranth.
They’ll be facilitating their own amaranth seed workshop.
Everyone is invited to come together for a community dinner and then close the night out with a film screening.
Lab’ises, Amaranto, Amaranth, explores seed sharing as a metaphor by which traditional agricultural practices serve not only to feed people but to inspire unexpected social connections. In recent years the problem of food security and food sovereignty have become a common concern for both developing and developed nations. Communities in search of solutions to ecological problems people have reached out to connect with one another to explore forgotten ecologies, and recover traditional folkways. Lab’ises, Amaranto, Amaranth is a social intervention that uses the site of the amaranth field to facilitate engagement through co-constructed inquiry-based methods, collaborative dialogues, and hands-on activities. By exploring the history, belief systems, and community structures that surround the seed in the postcolonial, globalizing world, the project draws attention to issues of food sovereignty, labor, and migration.
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