Presented by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco and MoAD's chef-in-residence Bryant Terry, an NAACP Image Award winner and a James Beard Award-winning chef and educator, this will be a unique and expansive gathering of leading Black chefs, writers, scholars, activists, artists, and other creatives for a two-day, public summit that brings to life the themes and ideas of Terry's critically-acclaimed and genre-redefining 2021 book Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora.
The Summit, taking place Sept. 9 at MoAD and Sept. 10 at TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, CA from 9am to 7pm each day, mirrors the way that the book interweaves food, experience, and community with a wide-ranging program of thought-provoking panels on writing, publishing, and design; sips, bites, and sounds with DJs; sessions on contemplative writing, gardening, breathwork, whole hog cooking, and more; and a concluding community supper made by some of the Bay Area's most talented Black chefs.
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"I conceived of the Black Food Summit as a way to further bring to life the content of the book," says Terry. "I have always talked about Black Food providing readers with mind, body, and spiritual sustenance. This in-person event will provide even more nourishment, health, pleasure, and life! This important gathering will bring together people in the food world and beyond for networking, skill-sharing, and community building as we navigate this historical moment."
The first day of the summit, taking place at MoAD, will focus on the ins and outs of publishing, design, and storytelling. It features a keynote address from cultural anthropologist Dr. Gail P. Myers, who has researched, lectured, written about, and recently filmed stories of African American farmers, sharecroppers, gardeners for over 20 years. Myers co-founded Farms to Grow, Inc. in Oakland, CA to work with Black farmers to sustain their farms, launching the Freedom Farmers Market in 2013.
That Friday will also feature a panel on storytelling with Osayi Endolyn, a James Beard Award-winning writer, editorial consultant, producer, and cultural commentator; Klancy Miller, author, pastry chef, and publisher of 'for the culture' magazine; and Marvin K. White, poet, writer, preacher, public theologian, visual artist, arts organizer and Full-Time Minister of Celebration at the historic Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, CA. Other panels include Navigating the Publishing World moderated by Porscha Burke, Director, Strategic Projects and Senior Editor-at-Large at Random House, and a design panel that will feature artist ?George McCalman, a visual columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Alice Grandoit, co-founder of Deem Journal and an experiential designer and creative strategist working at the intersections of community development, education, and culture. The first day ends with sips, bites, and music.
The second day of the summit at TomKat Ranch takes its inspiration from the "Leisure and Lifestyle" chapters in Terry's book with a focus on experiential learning and communal leisure. Multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian, community organizer, and founder of The Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey, will lead a session on rest. That afternoon there will be concurrent sessions on whole hog cooking, equine activities, breathwork, gardening, contemplative writing, and more. The day ends with a shared supper created by Bay Area Black chefs.
Other featured presenters and chefs over the two days include: Nicole Taylor, Jamia Wilson, Rachel Konte, Kanchan Hunter, and more to be announced.
"MoAD is so fortunate to have Bryant Terry as its chef-in residence since 2015," says Monetta White, Executive Director, MoAD. "He brings such vision to his work with food and its intersection with art and culture, community, health, and activism in the African diaspora. This summit will be a feast for the mind, body, and soul."
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The Summit, taking place Sept. 9 at MoAD and Sept. 10 at TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, CA from 9am to 7pm each day, mirrors the way that the book interweaves food, experience, and community with a wide-ranging program of thought-provoking panels on writing, publishing, and design; sips, bites, and sounds with DJs; sessions on contemplative writing, gardening, breathwork, whole hog cooking, and more; and a concluding community supper made by some of the Bay Area's most talented Black chefs.
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"I conceived of the Black Food Summit as a way to further bring to life the content of the book," says Terry. "I have always talked about Black Food providing readers with mind, body, and spiritual sustenance. This in-person event will provide even more nourishment, health, pleasure, and life! This important gathering will bring together people in the food world and beyond for networking, skill-sharing, and community building as we navigate this historical moment."
The first day of the summit, taking place at MoAD, will focus on the ins and outs of publishing, design, and storytelling. It features a keynote address from cultural anthropologist Dr. Gail P. Myers, who has researched, lectured, written about, and recently filmed stories of African American farmers, sharecroppers, gardeners for over 20 years. Myers co-founded Farms to Grow, Inc. in Oakland, CA to work with Black farmers to sustain their farms, launching the Freedom Farmers Market in 2013.
That Friday will also feature a panel on storytelling with Osayi Endolyn, a James Beard Award-winning writer, editorial consultant, producer, and cultural commentator; Klancy Miller, author, pastry chef, and publisher of 'for the culture' magazine; and Marvin K. White, poet, writer, preacher, public theologian, visual artist, arts organizer and Full-Time Minister of Celebration at the historic Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, CA. Other panels include Navigating the Publishing World moderated by Porscha Burke, Director, Strategic Projects and Senior Editor-at-Large at Random House, and a design panel that will feature artist ?George McCalman, a visual columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Alice Grandoit, co-founder of Deem Journal and an experiential designer and creative strategist working at the intersections of community development, education, and culture. The first day ends with sips, bites, and music.
The second day of the summit at TomKat Ranch takes its inspiration from the "Leisure and Lifestyle" chapters in Terry's book with a focus on experiential learning and communal leisure. Multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian, community organizer, and founder of The Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey, will lead a session on rest. That afternoon there will be concurrent sessions on whole hog cooking, equine activities, breathwork, gardening, contemplative writing, and more. The day ends with a shared supper created by Bay Area Black chefs.
Other featured presenters and chefs over the two days include: Nicole Taylor, Jamia Wilson, Rachel Konte, Kanchan Hunter, and more to be announced.
"MoAD is so fortunate to have Bryant Terry as its chef-in residence since 2015," says Monetta White, Executive Director, MoAD. "He brings such vision to his work with food and its intersection with art and culture, community, health, and activism in the African diaspora. This summit will be a feast for the mind, body, and soul."
Presented by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco and MoAD's chef-in-residence Bryant Terry, an NAACP Image Award winner and a James Beard Award-winning chef and educator, this will be a unique and expansive gathering of leading Black chefs, writers, scholars, activists, artists, and other creatives for a two-day, public summit that brings to life the themes and ideas of Terry's critically-acclaimed and genre-redefining 2021 book Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora.
The Summit, taking place Sept. 9 at MoAD and Sept. 10 at TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, CA from 9am to 7pm each day, mirrors the way that the book interweaves food, experience, and community with a wide-ranging program of thought-provoking panels on writing, publishing, and design; sips, bites, and sounds with DJs; sessions on contemplative writing, gardening, breathwork, whole hog cooking, and more; and a concluding community supper made by some of the Bay Area's most talented Black chefs.
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"I conceived of the Black Food Summit as a way to further bring to life the content of the book," says Terry. "I have always talked about Black Food providing readers with mind, body, and spiritual sustenance. This in-person event will provide even more nourishment, health, pleasure, and life! This important gathering will bring together people in the food world and beyond for networking, skill-sharing, and community building as we navigate this historical moment."
The first day of the summit, taking place at MoAD, will focus on the ins and outs of publishing, design, and storytelling. It features a keynote address from cultural anthropologist Dr. Gail P. Myers, who has researched, lectured, written about, and recently filmed stories of African American farmers, sharecroppers, gardeners for over 20 years. Myers co-founded Farms to Grow, Inc. in Oakland, CA to work with Black farmers to sustain their farms, launching the Freedom Farmers Market in 2013.
That Friday will also feature a panel on storytelling with Osayi Endolyn, a James Beard Award-winning writer, editorial consultant, producer, and cultural commentator; Klancy Miller, author, pastry chef, and publisher of 'for the culture' magazine; and Marvin K. White, poet, writer, preacher, public theologian, visual artist, arts organizer and Full-Time Minister of Celebration at the historic Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, CA. Other panels include Navigating the Publishing World moderated by Porscha Burke, Director, Strategic Projects and Senior Editor-at-Large at Random House, and a design panel that will feature artist ?George McCalman, a visual columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Alice Grandoit, co-founder of Deem Journal and an experiential designer and creative strategist working at the intersections of community development, education, and culture. The first day ends with sips, bites, and music.
The second day of the summit at TomKat Ranch takes its inspiration from the "Leisure and Lifestyle" chapters in Terry's book with a focus on experiential learning and communal leisure. Multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian, community organizer, and founder of The Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey, will lead a session on rest. That afternoon there will be concurrent sessions on whole hog cooking, equine activities, breathwork, gardening, contemplative writing, and more. The day ends with a shared supper created by Bay Area Black chefs.
Other featured presenters and chefs over the two days include: Nicole Taylor, Jamia Wilson, Rachel Konte, Kanchan Hunter, and more to be announced.
"MoAD is so fortunate to have Bryant Terry as its chef-in residence since 2015," says Monetta White, Executive Director, MoAD. "He brings such vision to his work with food and its intersection with art and culture, community, health, and activism in the African diaspora. This summit will be a feast for the mind, body, and soul."
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The Summit, taking place Sept. 9 at MoAD and Sept. 10 at TomKat Ranch in Pescadero, CA from 9am to 7pm each day, mirrors the way that the book interweaves food, experience, and community with a wide-ranging program of thought-provoking panels on writing, publishing, and design; sips, bites, and sounds with DJs; sessions on contemplative writing, gardening, breathwork, whole hog cooking, and more; and a concluding community supper made by some of the Bay Area's most talented Black chefs.
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"I conceived of the Black Food Summit as a way to further bring to life the content of the book," says Terry. "I have always talked about Black Food providing readers with mind, body, and spiritual sustenance. This in-person event will provide even more nourishment, health, pleasure, and life! This important gathering will bring together people in the food world and beyond for networking, skill-sharing, and community building as we navigate this historical moment."
The first day of the summit, taking place at MoAD, will focus on the ins and outs of publishing, design, and storytelling. It features a keynote address from cultural anthropologist Dr. Gail P. Myers, who has researched, lectured, written about, and recently filmed stories of African American farmers, sharecroppers, gardeners for over 20 years. Myers co-founded Farms to Grow, Inc. in Oakland, CA to work with Black farmers to sustain their farms, launching the Freedom Farmers Market in 2013.
That Friday will also feature a panel on storytelling with Osayi Endolyn, a James Beard Award-winning writer, editorial consultant, producer, and cultural commentator; Klancy Miller, author, pastry chef, and publisher of 'for the culture' magazine; and Marvin K. White, poet, writer, preacher, public theologian, visual artist, arts organizer and Full-Time Minister of Celebration at the historic Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, CA. Other panels include Navigating the Publishing World moderated by Porscha Burke, Director, Strategic Projects and Senior Editor-at-Large at Random House, and a design panel that will feature artist ?George McCalman, a visual columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Alice Grandoit, co-founder of Deem Journal and an experiential designer and creative strategist working at the intersections of community development, education, and culture. The first day ends with sips, bites, and music.
The second day of the summit at TomKat Ranch takes its inspiration from the "Leisure and Lifestyle" chapters in Terry's book with a focus on experiential learning and communal leisure. Multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian, community organizer, and founder of The Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey, will lead a session on rest. That afternoon there will be concurrent sessions on whole hog cooking, equine activities, breathwork, gardening, contemplative writing, and more. The day ends with a shared supper created by Bay Area Black chefs.
Other featured presenters and chefs over the two days include: Nicole Taylor, Jamia Wilson, Rachel Konte, Kanchan Hunter, and more to be announced.
"MoAD is so fortunate to have Bryant Terry as its chef-in residence since 2015," says Monetta White, Executive Director, MoAD. "He brings such vision to his work with food and its intersection with art and culture, community, health, and activism in the African diaspora. This summit will be a feast for the mind, body, and soul."
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