New Performance Debut!
Dear friends and community,
We are excited to invite you to Seeding Sustenance on July 18 at the Forest Theatre, 123 S. Boundary St., Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Please plan to arrive at 6:00 PM. The performance will begin promptly at 6:30 PM.
This event is free, but tickets are required. Donations will be accepted at the event to support this community-rooted work.
Seeding Sustenance is a multigenerational Cantastoria — a “sung story” or “story-song” performance that weaves together larger-than-life puppets, murals, poetry, live music, and collective storytelling.
Created by community-based artists and rooted in cultural organizing, this performance explores the beauty of our connection to the natural world while also naming the challenges of industrial agriculture and the ways it has separated many of our communities from land, seed, food, and ancestral ways of being.
At its heart, Seeding Sustenance is an act of love. It is a story of remembering, resistance, and imagination. Through puppetry, poetry, mural art, music, and collective storytelling, the performance invites us to imagine a just transition into a future that honors our interdependence with the earth and each other.
This community-made work has been created in collaboration with artists and organizers connected to the Collective on Racial Equity in Food Systems (CORE), NC Climate Justice Collective (NCCJC), Paperhand Puppet Intervention, and broader Rooted in Community partners. The work is also being developed in collaboration with CORE’s Art as Method team, which practices cultural organizing as a pathway for social change.
Featured artists and collaborators include Isabel Lu, Bevelyn Ukah, Jodi Lasseter, Connie Leeper, Dasan Ahanu, Molefi Ramos, Sophie Joy, Jan Burger, Paperhand Puppet Intervention, and additional community-based artists.
We are grateful to continue practicing cultural organizing as a pathway for social change, and we hope you will join us for this powerful evening of story, imagination, and community.
