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"Foodstories -We Are What We Eat (Interactive Workshop)
What is your favorite dish or recipe within your family? Do you have a story about sharing a meal or learning to cook something that came as a surprise for you? Is there a dish or food that you stay away from for any number of reasons?
These are some of the questions we will explore as a part of this interactive workshop as participants will be invited to think about the many ways that food connects to their personal story. These can be individual stories that range from as recent as last week, last month, to several years ago. Every one of us has a story to share about food and you do not have to bring any knowledge or background to participate in this interactive workshop.
This workshops and the stories shared will be a key piece of the Foodstories exhibition and the Foodstories project.
The event is hosted by the Regional Food Systems Work Group under the Monadnock Farm and Community Coalition & Foodstories.
MORE ABOUT THE REGIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS WORK GROUP
The work group is a collection of stakeholders working toward "more local food in more local bellies" by developing a more robust and resilient regional food system.
MORE ABOUT FOODSTORIES
"Foodstories -We Are What We Eat: Intersections Between Food, Memory, Identity and Our Stories" is connected to the idea that food can be a bridge into who we are as individuals and as cultures while also creating community. Our relationship to food intersects with our sense of identity, culture, class, religion, and other aspects of our human identity. Shanta Lee is collecting stories from individuals about their food memories (from any part of their life) as a part of her National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship.
Some of the stories that are being collected have a chance at being featured within the Foodstories exhibition that will be debuted in late 2025.
MORE ABOUT SHANTA LEE
Shanta Lee is an award-winning writer across genres, a visual artist and public intellectual actively participating in the cultural discourse with work that has been widely featured. Winner of the Abel Meeropol Social Justice award, she was the creator and producer of Vermont Public’s “Seeing...the Unseen and In-Between within Vermont’s Landscape.” Shanta Lee is the author of several books and a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and Art New England. Her books include 'GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues', winner of the 2020 Diode Press full-length book prize and the 2021 Vermont Book Award. 'Black Metamorphoses' which was named a finalist in the 2021 Hudson Prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Cowles Poetry Book Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Idaho Poetry Prize. Shanta Lee’s latest work includes a double volume of two chapbooks, 'Close Is... and Hopscotch Between the Living and the Dead ' (Diode Editions, 2024) and 'This Is How They Teach You How to Want It...The Slaughter: A Field Guide for the Hunted & the Hunter, The Dead-Alive, The Live-Dead Ones, The...' (Harbor Editions, 2024), a work that is in direct communication with the ancient mythology of the wild hunt — Wilde Jagd, Wild Hunt, or Chase in German — in which supernatural/ghost riders are pursuing a target. Shanta Lee is the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Humanities Council’s board of directors. Her current multimedia exhibition, Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine, which features her short film, interviews, photography, and other items has been exhibited at the Bennington Museum, University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art, the Southern Vermont Arts Center. She has an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MBA from the University of Hartford and an undergraduate degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality from Trinity College. To learn more\ about her work, visit: Shantalee.com
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