Salimatu Amabebe, Intisar Abioto, Akela Jaffi, and Annika Hansteen-Izora
(Portland, OR / Bay Area, California. Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, Chochenyo, and Ramaytush Ohlone Land)
Black Feast: Black Imagerial
Partner Program: Organized by Black Feast
TICKETING DETAILS
Off Pass | This event is free or by donation for Black folks / $80 for all others
Purchase your ticket at https://bit.ly/3P4pM3f. Black folks are welcome to enter the code "blackmovement" for free tickets.
If you'd like to make a donation, you can do so on Venmo @blackfeast, Cashapp $blackfeast, or PayPal blackfeastdinner@gmail.com.
DESCRIPTION
Black Feast is a culinary event celebrating Black artists and writers through food. At our table, guests participate in an experience that weaves together food and art, where Salimatu works with Black artists to create a multi-course, vegan, gluten-free meal based off of the artist’s work.
In Black Imagerial, movement artists Intisar Abioto and Akela Jaffi present a collectively held offering honoring the legacies of Black movers, dancers, and choreographers in Portland. With eight Black dancers and movement artists moving with the land, Black Imagerial recognizes Black movement as embodied image-making and visionary practice.
This meal is created as a celebration, a dance, and an offering. This meal is created for you.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Salimatu Amabebe (they/he), is a Bay Area-based chef, multimedia artist and the founder/ director of Black Feast. Amabebe's work focuses on the intersection of food and art, drawing from family memories, Nigerian recipes, and Black culinary history.
@salimatuamabebe
Intisar Abioto (she/they) is an artist working across photography, dance, and writing. Moving from the visionary and embodied root of Blackgirl Southern cross-temporal cross-modal storytelling ways, her works refer to the living breath/breadth of people of African descent against the expanse of their storied, geographic, and imaginative landscapes.
Akela Jaffi (she/her) is a writer and dancer living in Portland, OR. A graduate of Jefferson High school, she is the founder of Black Artists Summer Showcase. Dance has been her method of expression and healing, and her greatest contribution to the Portland art world. She is grateful for her role in building community, and the dedication of others seeking equality and change.
Annika Hansteen-Izora (she/they) is a queer Black artist and writer from Palo Alto, California, based in Brooklyn, New York. Annika uses poetry, design, and performance to explore themes of healing, Black liberation, afrofuturism, and queerness. Annika is a creative contributor at Black Feast and head of design at Somewhere Good, a social media platform that connects people of color to each other and the things they love. Annika believes in the sacredness of Black joy, and uses her work to explore tenderness as a liberation practice. annikaizora.com @annika.izora
annikaizora.com / @annika.izora
Jasmine Beach (she/her), is a multidisciplinary artist, skilled tradesperson, and autonomous organizer. She is currently studying environmental policy and constitutional law with aspirations around advocating for environmental equity, mutual aid, sustainability, and decolonization.
Ariel Myles Hernandez (they/she), is a Black and Xicanx queer person raised in the PNW. Their interior and exterior landscapes inspire them to dabble in spaces of creativity expressed through food, visual art, poetry, music, and community organizing. After completing degrees in Black studies and Chicano studies, Myles Hernandez now focuses on creative and educational programming, project coordination for Black youth, art curation, and working as a core contributor to Black Feast.