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Black Feast: Plant It, featuring Amenta Abioto
June 28, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$65Our June Black Feast event at Hell’s Half Acre Farm in Portland, Oregon will feature the incredible work of musical artist Amenta Abioto. Our four-course dinner will act as a culinary interpretation of Abioto’s music.
Guests will gather together to share the meal at a communal table, with a mid-meal performance by Amenta Abioto. This meal will be hosted at Hell’s Half Acre Farm in the Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood of Portland, specific address given after ticket purchase.
A creation of Black narrative, an offering to Black lineage, Black Feast brings together guests and artists to share a vibrant and sensory four-course meal. Our dinners are entirely plant-based and prepared without use of gluten or cane sugar.
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Plant It
Golden beets, fresh greens, black figs, sorrel, buckwheat bread with cashew chèvre and yellow raspberries
*vegan and gluten-free
Revolution
Coconut black rice pudding, champagne mango, charred kale and roasted sweet potato
*vegan and gluten-free
Kujichagulia
Miso tofu, avocado, pickled peppers, shredded daikon on a bed of ginger turmeric carrots
*vegan and gluten-free
Wade
White sesame cake with umeboshi sauce, sesame buttercream and elderberry flower
*vegan, gluten-free, free of cane sugar
Ticket Price $65
BYOB, wine + non-alcoholic drinks will be made available for purchase
If you are a low-income POC that is interested in a sliding scale ticket, please email us at blackfeastdinner@gmail.com
This meal is created as a celebration, a dance, and an offering. This meal is created for you.
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ABOUT AMENTA ABIOTO
Amenta Abioto is a singer, songwriter, producer from Memphis, TN. In her one-woman performance, she builds vocal and instrumental loops from kalimba, synthesizer, drum machine, and guitar creating atmospheric textures. Weaved into syncopated rhythms and dichotomies of comedic proportions, Amenta surprises and tantalizes audiences with mind bending ideas while skipping vocally from soul-shaking gospel to smooth jazz.
Amenta studied drama and was familiarized with the stage through theater by experimenting and playing various characters. With an instilled drama mind, Amenta moved to Portland, OR in 2010 with her family (mother & 4 sisters). There she began her musical chapter and merged drama with her music.
After playing music with musicians and forming one band, dopebeds, Her solo project made debut in a dark, warm basement in Spring of 2012. Since then, Amenta has released three projects and toured with The Blow, Secret Drum Band, Typhoon, and The Ghost Ease. In 2019 she plans to release her third record. Her music is boldly mystical and soul-fired, and her raw live performances invoke elements of both theatrical surprise and magic through ancient African diasporic sounds and stories.
http://amentaabioto.com
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ABOUT BLACK FEAST
Hosted by Salimatu Amabebe and Annika Hansteen-Izora, two Black queer artists that believe in centering the Black experience, Black Feast was created as a way to not only make space at the table for Black artists, but to design a whole new table for us. All are welcome to Black Feast experiences. Learn more about us at www.blackfeastdinner.com