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Eating While Young and Black: Dispatches from a Gentrifying City
July 22, 2016 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Food for Black Thought is hosting the following event – “Eating While Young and Black: Dispatches from a Gentrifying City.”
In Austin and in cities across the United States, Black youth and their families face gentrification, outmigration, displacement, and rebuilding. However, their food experiences are often represented without this context and without their stories.
Join Food for Black Thought for an opening performance and interactive talk that explores representations of eating while young and black, their impact, and why shifting the narrative matters now. Interwoven with clips from *Eating While Young and Black*, a 4-year multimedia project with African-American and Afro-Latinx youth from Austin, Texas.
Opening performance by Xavier Clark
Interactive Talk with Dr. Naya Armendarez Jones, co-founder of Food for Black Thought
Free and open to the public.
Doors open at 6:30; program begins at 7 PM. Seating is limited. Let us know you’re coming! RSVP here on Eventbrite.
The event will be held at Huston Tillotson University in the Agard-Lovinggood Auditorium.
Food for Black Thought (FFBT) is committed to sustaining and maintaining Black access to food resources, knowledge, and action in Austin, Texas and beyond to promote Black Diaspora well-being in ways physical, social, and economic.