10. Celebrate Black Food Culture at Weeksville Heritage Center
As an integral component of the Black American community, food has continually brought people together in conversation with one another. Through strife and systemic injustice, food has remained a constant within the community, giving Black Americans the strength they needed to oppose the biased systems set before them. As an ode to this, the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn will be hosting Meals as Collective Memory on June 19th. As a free interactive event, Meals as Collective Memory will celebrate Brooklyn’s Black food culture. Some featured activities will include a cooking class with Weeksville’s neighbor Lakou Cafe on dishes for July 5th, Independence Day For Black New Yorkers and a joint discussion between Tonya Hopkins and Dr. Jessica B. Harris on Black foodways across the African diaspora.
Overall, Meals as Collective Memory will focus will be on generating conversations surrounding topics ranging from the role of community fridges during the global COVID-19 pandemic to the current concept of the kitchen as a place of refuge. Meals as Collective Memory will begin at 12:30 p.m. and end at 4:00 p.m. Online registration is required in advance.
