Join Hetal Vasavada and Samantha Seneviratne for a night of sweet talk! Hetal Vasavada, author of Milk and Cardamom, grew up in New Jersey in a family of Gujarati home cooks who raised her on chai, cardamom-spiced shortbreads, and sweet puddings. In her latest book, Desi Bakes, she blends those traditional Indian flavors, as well […]
Watering is a communal hydration ritual, a gathering facilitated by artist Meech Boakye that considers hydration as a medium for collective healing. The gathering centers on a screening of Jumana Manna’s Foragers, a film that explores the restricted practices of foraging wild edible plants in Palestine under Israeli law. To introduce the film, Boakye will draw parallels […]
Rachel Meade Smith has many titles—writer, editor, researcher, job fairy, textile artist, oral historian, civic designer… Her prolific multi-disciplinary practice coalesces around seeing the extraordinary within the ordinary, the power of knowledge sharing, and “repair” as both mantra and material practice. This conversation will explore her thoughts around the mending mindset and rethinking what novelty […]
A Conversation with Simon Critchley and Cornel West Why mysticism? It has been called “experience in its most intense form,” and in his new book the philosopher Simon Critchley poses a simple question to the reader: Wouldn’t you like to taste this intensity? Wouldn’t you like to be lifted up and out of yourself into […]