Tag: Communities of Culture
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SOIL | The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy
Book Signing & TeaPOSTPONED – Stay tuned for the upcoming date Stiles African American Heritage Center2607 Glenarm Place, Denver Free & open to the publicBooks will be available for purchase on site. We are hosting the one final spring tea at the Stiles African American Heritage Center on Saturday, June 3rd. Along with the Rocky…
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Celebrating Mothers: Madam CJ Walker
STILES AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER Saturday Afternoon Tea Plant Exchange & Mother’s Day Cards May 13th | 2-4pm2607 Glenarm Place, Denver Plant Exchange As part of the establishment of the Stiles African American Heritage Gardens, please bring plants and their stories to exchange on Mother’s Day weekend. We will be planting the new gardens around…
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Breaking Ground in the Hell-strip
Join us for an open house to (re)discover the Stiles Center, learn about Aunt Clara Brown & see how we are constructing a no-water, stone garden in the ‘hell-strip’ Breaking Ground in the Hell-strip The Stiles Center is honored to have received funding from Denver Arts & Venues PS You Are Here program for gardens…
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Lakou Basile
After our visit to SAKALA, we planted trees throughout the community of woodworkers that surround the Atis Rezistans along the Grand Rue of Port-au-Prince. We sourced compost to amend the dirt through SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), a worthy organization who is working on increasing dignity through community sanitation in urban areas while providing compost…
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Lakou Jean Claude Santillus
Initiating the 2017 Ghetto Biennial, we continued the tradition of preparing a feast to share between Haitian and foreign artists. While several neighborhood women prepared the feast, we saved seeds from ingredients they were using, and showed how to cultivate ones that we found could grow around the neighborhood. Neighborhood children gathered in his garden…
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Gardens of the Grand Rue
2015 Ghetto Biennial KREYÒL, VODOU and the LAKOU as forms of Resistance The effective revolutionary approach of the Lakou, Vodou and Kreyol have much to offer a wider discourse on preserving traditional farming practices in the face of monumental threats from industrial agriculture. Drawing from the historical importance of agriculture in Haiti, the Sacred Soil…
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Tchaka
Collisions between Haitian food sovereignty & US food policy IMMACULA Immacula Cadet grew up in Port-Au-Prince. When she was young, her family would go to the countryside of Cayes to dance with Papa Loko several times a year. They would celebrate the father of the Hougan priesthood by offering red liquor and cake. The most…
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Poisson Gwo-Sel
The antiseptic qualities of certain ingredients was well demonstrated in the preparation of this dish. Without refrigeration, the raw fish attract mass amounts of flies both in the market and as we set up a kitchen in a corner of the twisted ghetto alleyways behind the Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I was initially wary…
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Mais Moulin
Mais Moulin is a staple in Haiti. The warming and filling corn porridge reminds me of polenta, but with a Caribbean flair as it is made with coconut milk. I had it served with an array of meats, but when I learned the recipe it was served with Poisson Gwo-Sel. It was prepared by Rose…
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