Course Description:
Stories from My Mother’s Kitchen: A VIRTUAL writing workshop exploring our ancestral connections to food.

We will explore the work of Black, Indigenous and POC poets, writers, chefs and food historians, and sit with our own food stories. Some questions that will guide us are: Can food be a portal to our ancestors? Are there specific dishes/meals that remind you of “home”? What can we learn from family recipes, our everyday food, or food as medicine? How do these foods speak to our connection (or disconnection) to ancestry? How have we (BIPOC) maintained our rituals, cultural practices and resistance through food?

This is a participatory workshop, we will be writing in class and have the opportunity to share our work with each other.

This workshop is only open to Black, Indigenous, People of Color.

Workshop Cost: $150 Scholarships available
$225 - Pay it forward

**Scholarships available please email: info@maydayspace.org for scholarship inquiries.

When: Saturdays April 9, 16, 23
Time: 12:30pm - 3:00pm

About the Instructor:

Cris Izaguirre (He/they) is a farmer, educator, writer, trans, queer Nicaraguan immigrant of Afro-Indigenous descent. He is an old school jaded New Yorker with a big laugh, committed to creating spaces that celebrate the brilliance of QTBIPOC.

For five years he managed KCC Urban Farm in Brooklyn, where he taught Black and brown students how to grow food from seed to harvest through a social justice lens.
Prior to their work in agriculture, they worked for LGBTQ rights organizations including El/La Para Translatinas, Community United Against Violence and Lambda Legal. Outside of paid work, he has directed and produced community theater shows at WOW Theater Cafe, BAAD, Dixon Place and Galapagos Art Space.

He currently resides in Decatur, Georgia, with his partner and rowdy cat.