Join artist Reyhan Yazdani in a two session workshop on intersections of food, community, land, language, intergenerational reciprocity, and connection via the poetics of recipe sharing. Throughout the pandemic, the importance of food culture, gathering, sovereignty and sharing has been felt throughout our every day in how we talk, write, and think about/ around food. This FreeSchool will include guided recipe-making exercises, and participants will be invited to share their recipes through Yazdani’s publication, “A Poem in Distance.”
Wrapped in a Recipe will take place over two Zoom sessions, the first on Saturday October 2nd, from 12-3 pm PDT, with a followup second workshop on Saturday October 9th, from 12-3pm PDT. Attendance at both sessions is encouraged.
Session 1:
We will introduce ourselves and acknowledge the places and communities we are connected to through small writing activities and a guided recipe-making exercise. This session will focus on our childhood kitchens, foods we grew up with, and traditions and rituals we learnt via these experiences.
Session 2:
This session will focus on developing the recipes, opening up the form of the recipe to potentials for personal narrative and prompts.
Reyhan Yazdani is an interdisciplinary artist/designer currently teaching at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Her creative practice revolves around themes of embodied knowledge, language, displacement and nomadic identities. Reyhan explores notions of de-centering practices, pluralistic understandings, untranslatability, loss and longing through material inquiry, installation, objects, social practice, and poetry.
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