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Black Feast: Narcissus, Featuring jayy dodd
April 5, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$55Black Feast is an vegan pop-up dinner that weaves food into a celebration of Black artistry.
Our April event, Black Feast: Narcissus, celebrates the artistry of literary and performance artist Jayy Dodd. Our four courses are inspired by Jayy’s newly released work The Black Condition ft. Narcissus, published by Nightboat Books.
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- Manual: roasted macadamia nuts and fried plantain dusted in a leek and onion ash
- Narcissus Stunts for the Void & Becomes a Flower: blackened coconut soup with red chilies, seared shiitake, tofu and cured coconut butter
- We Cannot Grieve What Doesnt Leave Us Or Ill Be at Every Function: a buckwheat and teff crisp over fresh greens, turmeric rosemary cabbage, smoked carrots, sweet potato and ginseng
- I Know I Been Changed: caramelized pear custard with maple dust and sarsaparilla creme
ABOUT JAYY DODD
jayy dodd is a blxk trans womxn from los angeles, california now based in Portland,OR. she is a literary & performance artist. her work has appeared / will appear in Broadly, The Establishment, Entropy, LitHub, BOAAT Press, Duende, & Poetry Foundation among others. she is the Executive Director for Dovesong Labs (a development of Winter Tangerine), editor of A Portrait in Blues (Platypus Press 2017), author of Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press 2017) & The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (Nightboat Books 2019). she has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, co-editor of Bettering American Poetry. her visual & written work has been featured in West Hollywood, Portlands Institute of Contemporary Art, Teen Vogue & Entropy. they are also a volunteer gender-terrorist & artificial intellectual. find her talking trash online or taking a selfie. You can view her work on her website and instagram.
ABOUT BLACK FEAST
A creation of Black narrative, an offering to Black lineage, Black Feast brings together guests and artists to share an intimate and sensory four-course meal. Our dinners are entirely vegan and without the use of gluten or cane sugar in a commitment to understanding the use of Black and Brown bodies in food labor. Created by Salimatu Amambebe and Annika Hansteen-Izora, two Black queer artists that belive in centering the Black experience, Black Feast was founded on the premise to rail and dance against the erasure of Blackness in the food and art worlds. All are welcome to Black Feast experiences. This meal is created as a celebration, a dance, and an offering. This meal is created for you.
*This event is made possible by the generous support of the Redd on Salmon
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If you are a low-income Black, Indigenous, or POC guest that would like a sliding scale ticket, please get in touch with us at blackfeastdinner@gmail.com
If you would like to donate funds so that a low-income Black, Indigenous, or POC guest can attend the event, please get in touch with us at blackfeastdinner@gmail.com