The Diaspora Kitchen Forum is an intergenerational storytelling and food-sharing event, featuring a local migration archive. This event brings together nine families from diverse cultural backgrounds who will share their unique recipes, culinary traditions, and cultural adaptations since relocating to San Diego.
This collaborative project is developed in partnership with Noun Abdelaziz, a community organizer and health researcher, and Amina Sheik Mohamed, Director and founder of the UCSD Refugee Health Unit, in collaboration with San Diego-based artist MR Barnadas.
Event date and time: Saturday, June 29, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Location: City Heights Plaza Del Sol—Community Room, 4061 Fairmount Ave, San Diego, CA 92105
Cost: Free admission
MR Barnadas’ Diaspora Kitchen Forum is made possible in part by a grant from Far South/Border North
How can I find out more about MR Barnadas, Far South/Border North, or RISE Arts?
MR Barnadas (Melinda Barnadas) is an intercultural interdisciplinary visual artist dedicated to the public sphere with an emphasis on site- and audience-specific participatory engagement. These artworks have been conducted in the form of murals, signage, performances, interventions, institutional critique, public events, and other collaborative gestures. It is through collaboration with participants that nuanced perspectives are activated in the art production—ultimately to increase public discourse around representation. Learn more at collective magpie.org.
Far South/Border North is a regional collaborative supporting artists and cultural practitioners in communities and the only program of its kind in San Diego and Imperial counties. Visit the FS/BN website to learn more about this two-year investment in our region’s arts and culture communities and the program’s grantees.
RISE San Diego is changing the landscape of leadership, and RISE Arts aims to help arts and culture nonprofits, artists, and cultural practitioners throughout the San Diego-Imperial Valley region to grow and thrive. Visit the RISE Arts page and join our email list to receive news about the FS/BN campaigns under development by MR Barnadas and all 17 artists, cultural practitioners, and nonprofit organizations that are part of the RISE FS/BN Social Justice Impact Hub.