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CrisisArt Festival: Italy 2012

Please see this wonderful announcement from Kali Quinn, past Annual Meeting participant...


I wanted to let you know about a festival going on this summer in Arezzo, Italy at Accademia dell'Arte (where I've been doing some work this past year) that I thought some Alternate ROOT Folks might be interested in. The invite is below and please feel free to pass it on.

Let me know if you have any questions!


 

CrisisArt Festival

Arezzo, Italy

July 6-11 

Art, Autonomy and Resistance 
confronting the crisis with a new social imaginary

Invitation
to
Artists and Social Activists

Cecille's Recipe for Bacon Cornbread

Cornbread in every shape and form is a mainstay of the Thanksgiving table in the South, and for some, probably an heirloom recipe passed down through generations.  I share with you today the recipe for the cornbread that makes it to my holiday table every year – it’s crisp on the outside, moist but not cakey on the inside, with kernels of corn in every bite and topped with crispy bacon bits.  It doesn’t get any better than this!

Bacon Cornbread

Prayer for Jo Carson (A Poem by Joe Lambert)


At the river's edge
You look in
Imagining a life
Of river watching
Of counting fireflies
And you step down
into the mud

And push yourself
Into the current.
And there is no more
Observing
This time you are
Becoming the current
Sure swift strokes
Carry you to the center
And you stop to float
As you drift
You remember beginnings

And the thoughts diminish
It's you and the water
Dissolving and flowing
Out to a distant sea
And a cloud drifts by
With the first Spring rain
Hidden Deep Within.

Joe Lambert, September 2011

Twin Trees Falling in Tandem & Not Hitting Al's Roof

You in your kerchief

& me in my hat

The wan afternoon before us

Like a cat stretches out for its

Long winter's nap

We talked about old loves

Family rivalries

Rivers flooded

Miracle babies

You hiked up your skirt

As though it were summer

And you were looking to catch

A cool breeze

And handed me a back issue of

Southern Living

We both laughed at the thought

 

Persephone had her six tiny seeds

And parsed them out slowly

But we ate big, plump, juicy

Pomegranate seeds

By the spoonful

Like we were greedy children

Staving off winter and cancer

And loneliness

 

We held hands and jumped

Into Hades

...together

For Jo (A Poem by Will MacAdams)

FOR JO

This is the day for the divine in the common place
Shaving, I look down at speckles of cut hair in the sink and see constellations
My white foot powder sprinkles onto a black t-shirt on the bathroom floor and it looks like stars
And outside my apartment window, a child screams hello; a jet roars by; an elevator door closes. Everyone is leaving or coming home today.

“You’re eulogizing me with foot powder?” I can hear it now.

Maybe, Jo. Because weren’t you the one who saw the eternal in the everyday?
Didn’t you show us that the voices in the holler, in the mountains, on the pass, sing like angels?
Weren’t you, like Huck Finn once said, a woman ‘with a lot of sand’? Yeah, you make the sand sublime.

I remember you:

Rice Scented with Lemon Grass, Pan-fried Spanish Mackerel & Sautéed Baby Bokchoy

(October 2011 Recipe by Cecille Ericta)

Food excites me.  My senses heighten with anything food-related… the sounds of hustle and bustle in the market... The look of pleasure in people’s faces when they savor their food... the smell of seaweed in the ocean after a storm... a cherimoya’s perfect balance of sweetness and acidity or the slight give on the flesh of a fresh tuna. 

Praise for ROOTS Fest from Teresa Eyring, TCG Executive Director

Teresa Eyring's Weekly Briefing

Weekly Briefing #125
07/07/2011

Dear Colleagues:

Member Profile: Shannon Woolley Allison and Looking for Lilith Theatre

Shannon Woolley, long-time ROOTS member and Artistic Director of Looking for Lilith Theatre sat down to talk to Shannon Turner.  To listen to the full interview, click here.

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