H@H: Are We What We Eat? Stories About Food & Ourselves
Virtual
Join us for this interactive event and share your own Foodstory! Everyone is invited to participate.
We all have a story about food, whether it is sharing a meal, memories of learning a recipe, or foods we might avoid due to negative associations. During this program, Shanta Lee will discuss her project, "Foodstories - We Are What We Eat: Intersections Between Food, Memory, Identity, and Our Stories," and participants will be welcomed to share their own stories, which will culminate in a multimedia exhibition. The final project will feature Foodstories from the community through audio, images, and text paired with an original soundscape designed by another artist.
The purpose of Foodstories is to explore the idea that food can be a bridge to who we are as individuals and as a human collective while also creating community. Our relationship to food intersects with our sense of identity, culture, class, religion, and other aspects of our human identity. To learn more about the project, visit Shantalee.com/foodstories
Shanta Lee is an award-winning author of several books, 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. She was the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Humanities Council’s board of directors. Other work has included her multimedia exhibition, Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine, which featured her short film, photography, and museum archives.
