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ABOUT THE DINNER:
People's Kitchen Collective is collaborating with brilliant chef and writer Tunde Wey to bring his Blackness in America dinner series to Oakland in an intimate community meal hosted at ALENA Museum.
Chef Tunde Wey has been traveling across the country hosting dinners for people to come together and discuss the state of Blackness in America. The dining room is centered on Blackness with the goal of bringing people together to share a meal and be in conversation about Black arts, culture and the importance of Black Space in Oakland.
The menu will be a collaboration between Tunde Wey and People's Kitchen Collective, presenting the Nigerian dishes that Chef Tunde is known for in a family style setting common to the People's Kitchen Collective. Dishes will be paired with discussion prompts, visual and performance art from Black Woman is God, Marvin White and the artists of ALENA. Expect a meal that fills your stomach, feeds your mind and nourishes your soul.
Given the limited capacity of the dinner, we ask that our supporters self select to keep space accessible for Black people.
This dinner experience is free for all guests thanks to support from the Akonadi Foundation's Beloved Community Fund.
Dinner from 7-9pm at ALENA.
ABOUT US:
People's Kitchen Collective works at the intersection of art and activism as a food-centered political education project and cooperative business. Based in Oakland, California, our creative practices reflect the diverse histories and background of collective members Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Jocelyn Jackson, and Saqib Keval. Written in our family's recipes are the maps of our migrations and the stories of our resilience. It is from this foundation that we create immersive experiences that celebrate centuries of shared struggle. http://peopleskitchencollective.com/
Tunde Wey is a Nigerian immigrant chef/ writer. Tunde's food work has been written about in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and other media outlets. His own writing has been featured in the Boston Globe, Okayafrica, and Oxford American. http://www.fromlagos.com/
The Black Woman is God (BWIG) celebrates the Black female presence as the highest spiritual form God, and challenges viewers to do the same. Artists bring history and culture alive by refocusing the audience on where humanity really began--the womb of the African woman through musical, performing, and visual artists. http://www.theblackwomanisgod.com/
Marvin K. White MDiv, is a recent graduate of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley CA, and the author of four collections of poetry published by RedBone Press; Our Name Be Witness, Status and the two Lammy-nominated collections last rights and nothin ugly fly. As a community-based artist and public theologian, he is articulating a vision of social, prophetic and creative justice through being a black poet, artist, teacher, facilitator, activist, community organizer, preacher, homemaker, cake baker, and Facebook Statustician. http://www.marvinkwhite.com/
Event subject to cancellation or change.
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LocationAlena Museum (View)
2725 Magnolia Street
Oakland, CA 94608
United States
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