HTBAF: Stitches
How To Build A Fire: Stitches
When: May 30th, 7pm
Where: Open Source Gallery
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What holds us together, binds us to one another? What dissolves us into side-aching laughter? How do we put ourselves back together after trauma or tragedy or adorn ourselves for ceremony and celebration? What are the carefully-laid threads that tell our stories, create the story quilts of our lives? May 30th, 7pm. How to Build a Fire. We’ll be spinning tales, telling yarns, weaving some ties that bind. Come slip through the eyes of our needles!
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Storytellers:
Jacqueline Johnson is a multi-disciplined artist creating in both poetry, fiction writing and fiber arts. She is the author of A Woman’s Season, on Main Street Rag Press and A Gathering of Mother Tongues, published by White Pine Press and is the winner of the Third Annual White Pine Press Poetry Award. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Black Earth Institute, Blue Mountain Arts Colony, Hurston Wright, and Brooklyn Public Library Artist Residency.
Ena K. McPherson is a long-time resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant who aspires to use best horticultural practices to teach, beautify, build, and strengthen diverse communities. She is a community gardener, activist, and advocate. She has gained her gardening background from her affiliation with the Brooklyn Urban Gardener, as a master composter at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and as a 2010 Fellow with NYC Partnership for Parks, in addition to many relationships and roles within community gardens. Ena continues to serve, nourish, and nurture the community by sharing her knowledge with the young people of the community to ensure that they will continue the work she has begun.
Jason Duverney-Gaspar is a practicing horticulturist and educator. For over a decade he has engaged with communities in NYC around food, gardening and plants. He is committed to making horticultural education more accessible and rethinking how horticulture fits into conversation around the environment, land, food growing, sustainability and engagement.
Kate Hill Cantrill is a writer, artist and teacher, presently living in South Jersey just across from Philadelphia where she grew up. Prior to that she lived in Brooklyn where she ran the Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series, and presented and hosted (for a year) the How To Build A Fire Storytelling series. She teaches with Writing Workshops Dallas and is the author of a collection of short stories called Walk Back From Monkey School.
