Evento

Black Feast: Crowns

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.

Our April Black Feast event will feature the acclaimed work of Alisa Sikelianos-Carter. The four courses of the dinner are inspired by Alisa''s collection "Crowns." Sikelianos-Carter asserts that Black features are a manifestation of a sacred and divine technology that have served as a means of survival, both physically and metaphysically. She envision a cosmically bountiful world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power and aesthetics. Guests will gather together to share the meal at a communal table, with a mid-meal conversation with Sikelianos-Carter.

This meal is created as a celebration, a dance, and an offering. This meal is created for you. This meal is BYOB. If you are a low-income POC that is interested in a sliding scale ticket, please email us at blackfeastdinner@gmail.com

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ABOUT ALISA SIKELIANOS-CARTER
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed media artist who works and resides in Upstate New York. Her luminous work envisions a speculative Afro-Futuristic dimension where Blackness represents both a breaking open of nothingness and a densely lustrous opportunity for the genesis of a new world.

Sikelianos-Carter asserts that Black features are a manifestation of a sacred and divine technology that have served as a means of survival, both physically and metaphysically. She envision a cosmically bountiful world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power and aesthetics.

Inspired by traditionally African and Black-American hairstyles, she uses web and catalogue sourced images to construct these new saviors. Through large scale paintings and the employment of luminescent materials she is creating a mythology that is centered on Black resistance and utilizes the body as a sight of alchemy and divinity.

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ABOUT BLACK FEAST
Hosted by Chef 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