Round I Projects
PROJECT
Diaspora Kitchen Forum
PROJECT FOCUS AREA:
Social justice and community engagement
ZIP CODE(S):
CONTRIBUTOR(S):
MR Barnadas in collaboration with Noun Abdelaziz and Amina Sheik Mohamed
The Diaspora Kitchen Forum campaign is an intergenerational storytelling and food-sharing event and local migration archive featuring nine families from diverse cultural backgrounds. These families will share their unique recipes, culinary traditions, and cultural adaptations since relocating to San Diego.
The event will address the pressing issue of food justice, emphasizing the need to identify food deserts within culturally specific immigrant communities. It will shed light on the challenges of cultural competence in food access, aiming to spark a conversation and drive change.
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.
Join the artist and collaborators in celebrating culinary heritage and migration stories through food on Saturday, June 29, from 12:30-2:30, at the City Heights Plaza Del Sol, Community Room, 4061 Fairmount Ave, SD, CA 92105.
LEARN ABOUT THE ARTIST + CULTURAL PRACTITIONERS
MR Barnadas
MR 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. Through collaboration with participants, nuanced perspectives are activated in the art production - ultimately to increase public discourse around representation. She was born in Montreal to parents from Trinidad and Peru and grew up in the Southwest of the United States. She holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in Painting/Art & Technology; conducted Regional Studies in Mexican Art and Craft at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; holds an MFA in Visual Arts with a Public Culture focus from the University of California San Diego; and co-founded Collective Magpie, a shared practice dedicated to art in the public domain.