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Book Launch: Juliana Steiner – Ecotone

Barringer House 1442 Annandale Rd,, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, United States

Ecotono: revoluciones silenciosas (Ecotone: Silent Revolutions) is an editorial and research project that compiles the reflections of the curatorial project Ecotone: Chagras, Payaos, Camellones, as part of Common Ground, the 2022–23 edition of the Fisher Center LAB at Bard College. Through diverse voices and territories, different food technologies in Colombia and their uses as alternative […]

Book Launch: Alarm Phone

Barringer House 1442 Annandale Rd,, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, United States

CHRA’s collaboration with Alarm Phone (AP) through the Activism in Process program has culminated in a book by AP activists, marking ten years of the network’s life-saving work. The publication offers intimate reflections on AP’s activism across diverse geographical contexts. Ranging in visual and written expressions from collages to illustrations and photographs, the multilingual publication […]

Putting the Cooker on Low

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World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Ama Josephine Budge and writer Dr. Chelsea M. Frazier, moderated by Dr. J.T. Roane (Arizona State University). Putting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women, femmes and non-binary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual, emotional, […]

Khar va Attar خار وعطار : The Thorn and the Healers

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World premiere of a CHRA digital commission and a text by Dr. Manijeh Moradian, featuring a Q&A with artist Amitis Motevalli. For Khar va Attar, the artist takes on the challenge of channeling a conversation between 10th century Persian scholar and doctor, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), her uncle Manoucher Emrani, an agricultural engineer and botanist, and […]

Tastes of Loss

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World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Alexandre Paulikevitch and writer Romy Lynn Attieh, moderated by curator Amanda Abi Khalil and co-presented by CEC ArtsLink. Tastes of Loss tells the story of a dancer's intimate relationship to food cooking and preservation. It is a visual essay on survival, womanhood, and […]

Only God Can Make Tomato Sauce

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World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Brian Lobel and writer Season Butler, moderated by Jack Ferver (Bard College). Two friends and food makers share their recipes for healing, their personal histories and food journeys, and wider reflections on medicine versus the medicinal, knowledge versus expertise, the homegrown and the […]

Dwala Lam’

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World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Sethembile Msezane and writer Dr. Portia Malatjie, moderated by Panashe Chigumadzi and hosted by Wits School of Arts.  Praise singing and movement is the celebration of presence. Dwala Lam’ is a praise song that reminds one of the groundedness that is inscribed in their ancestry. These inscriptions, may […]

Hands to Hold

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World premiere of our third digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Emilio Rojas and writer Pamela Sneed hosted by Dr. Sanjay Kumar (Central European University). Hands to Hold is centered around 2 durational performances devised by Emilio Rojas. For a 6.5-hour performance, the artist drank a 1.5 gallons of sap from a 250 year […]

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Mise-en-crise

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World premiere of our second digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Malik Nashad Sharpe (Marikiscrycrycry) and writer Hélène Selam Kleih hosted by Dr. Fintan Walsh (Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre). Mise-en-Crise is a film that considers choreography as both the site and the scenography of hope, performatively carved from crisis and rebellion. Playing with […]

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There is a Baba in Our House

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World premiere of the first in our annual digital commissions, featuring a Q&A with artist Leil Zahra Mortada and Nubian Geographic hosted by Dr. Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin). في بيتنا بابا Parting from a personal narrative, and using references from both popular culture and key political events, artist Leil Zahra Mortada uses the performative […]