**All spots have been claimed, but you may sign up to be on the waitlist. You will be notified within 24 hours of the event if a spot opens up.**

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower invites us to be bold in our visions of equitable living in a wounded world. And we’re thrilled to invite you to help us expand that vision here at home through Radical Nourishment: Food, Soul & Community for the Future, a series of gatherings designed by and for BIPOC organizers to deepen our connections with each other, our relationship with the land around us, and the power we need to survive and transform the conditions we are rooted in.

In collaboration with Nibezun and local food systems advocate Jasmine Thompson-Tintor, we’ll be walking the land together at Nibezun, learn how to identify different edibles and their life cycles, as well as prepare and enjoy a meal together using local ingredients, such as acorn flour, fiddleheads, and moose meat. Jasmine Thompson is a food systems educator with Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness and manager of Katahdin Kitchen. They love working with the earth’s natural life cycles and collective learning styles. The event will take place at Nibezun, located along the Penobscot River on traditional meeting grounds of the Wabanaki.

Accessible accommodations and rides to the location are available. Lunch will be provided. 

This project is a collaboration between Tender Table & the Southern Maine Workers’ Center, and part of Parable Path, a framework for community organizing and artistic engagement based on Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. This initiative is led by multi-hyphenate musician Toshi Reagon, Bowdoin College’s Joseph McKeen 2022-23 Visiting Fellow, and is supported by Maine Humanities Council, Indigo Arts Alliance and Bowdoin College.

This event is for BIPOC only. Space is limited. Register here!