A Joyous Juneteenth | Collective Memory In Motion

We will gather on undisclosed farm land in Central North Carolina. A space that grounds us in the Adinkra codes Sankofa and Denkyem. Meaning go back and get it, adaptability and cleverness. We will explore Sankofa through a feast, sourced from farmers all over AfroCarolina, as we activate our collective memory.

This celebration will feature seed and survival workshops, including seasonal winemaking, reclaiming the right to protect ourselves --a more intentional firearm ownership workshop, and wild seed, a special story-driven seed sesssion and pop-up centering the ways ancestral growing methods are the future of adaptation for us and for our food. Workshops are free for ticket holders.

Ticket sales will go towards the Woodard’s Garage restoration project, a historic Black owned mechanic shop in central North Carolina that is being preserved and converted into a cooperative workshop and lab that centers culture work across mediums.

Stay in Greensboro if you are visiting from out of state. Transportation to and from the event will be provided from the Proximity Hotel, a sustainbly styled and locally owned hotel located in Downtown Greensboro. Guests can access a special rate via this link during Juneteenth weekend.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Gabrielle E. W. Carter is a cultural preservationist and culinary artist who uses diasporic and local foodways as a vehicle to reimagine wealth, marginalized food systems, and inheritance. Her work uses oral history and intuitive cooking to engage audiences around rural food and land traditions.

In 2018 she returned to her family’s homeplace in Central North Carolina, where she is archiving her own familial foodways while restoring both her family home and her grandfather’s mechanic shop. This historic building is where she will host her supper club, centering folklore and ‘rural imagination’, as well as a special multi-disciplinary artist’s atelier.

She currently hosts seasonal suppers focused on land relationship and place, and can be seen in the first season of the Peabody Award winning Netflix series, High on the Hog.

Her recipes and storytelling have been published and featured in the New York Times, Vogue Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Southern Living Magazine. As well as the two James Beard nominated anthologies ‘Black Food’ and ‘For the Culture’.

She co-founded the North Carolina based Black Farmer CSA, Tall Grass Food Box, an equity focused platform created to support and encourage the sustainability of Black farmers.