A Thousand Plates at SDSU Downtown Gallery

SeedBroadcast will be Broadcasting from the closing reception and panel event of:

A Thousand Plates // An art exhibition about food and culture

SDSU Downtown Gallery
725 West Broadway
San Diego, CA

March 26, 2015
5pm - 8pm

Come by and share you Seed Story and check out open/free source materials from the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station.

Also!! Stay tuned. We will be posting Seed Stories from here soon!

A Thousand Plates // An art exhibition about food and culture
A Thousand Plates explores the topic of food as a means to question society by examining traditions across cultures and throughout the centuries. The exhibition will examine food as a fundamental need, modern food production and its relationship to the environment, the culture of eating and its relationship to memory.

Our exhibition title refers to Deleuze and Guattari’s “A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"—a philosophical text written with a rhizomatic structure—where connections between ideas and references defy linear, structural, or casual relations. Every point can conceptually link to somewhere else. In our view, our relationship to food is similar. The production, consumption, distribution and marketing of food is connected to tradition, culture, individual and social taste as well as health care, environmental issues, and global politics that shape the contemporary society.

This event is being sponsored by San Diego State University School of Art + Design, SDSU Art Council, Common Experience SDSU, and Arts Alive SDSU

Santa Fe Seed Exchange.

Two farming friends exchanging stories at the SeedBroadcast hub

 The Santa Fe Seed Exchange is always a delight. There is some thing about this time of year, the change of the light, the return of the birds, the warmth in the air and the excitement to get our hands in the soil that brings people together to share their seeds and stories.

This annual event, held in the rustic barn at Frenchy's Field, is co-ordinated by Home Grown New Mexico http://homegrownnewmexico.org/ and the City of Santa Fe Parks Division. The mission of Home Grown is to create urban farm and food events that bring together businesses and New Mexicans committed to growing, making and preserving their own food with the intent to develop a healthier and more self-reliant lifestyle. This committed organization was the vision of Amy Hetager who SeedBroadcast had the pleasure to meet over three years ago.   This blog is dedicated to her memory and to her vision.

 Lots of participants arrived right as the event started with their seeds carefully bagged and labeled.     There was a great expectancy in the air. Its magical to see all of the many varieties of seeds in their different packages and to experience how they evoke conversation and exchange. Many people had been to the exchange before, know the process and are drawn back very year by the excitement of what new seeds they might discover. Many were joggers, just out walking or playing with their children in the park and discovered this event by chance.  There were farmers from Nambe, Medanales, La Medera, urban gardeners from Santa Fe and families just wanted to know more about growing their own food.

A wealth of beans.

The Master Gardeners http://sfmga.org/ were on hand to answer questions any of those burning questions. Susie Sonflieth who is part of this knowledgeable group shared her seed story.

If you have never been to a seed exchange before then you should.  Try to find one near you, there are many at this time of the year. If you do not have seeds to share just go to be part of the magic. Perhaps some seeds will attract you with their potential and lead you to new discoveries.

 "To have a seed is to have everything"

Emily Renfro with her seeds.

Bees and Seeds Festival - Albuquerque, NM

Bees and Seeds Festival

March Against Monsanto

May 23, 2015
12 - 2 pm
Tiguex Park
Albuquerque, NM

SeedBroadcast will be there sharing seed resources AND recording and broadcasting Seed Stories!
See you there!

For more information visit GMO-Free New Mexico at:
https://www.facebook.com/gmofreenm?fref=ts

SeedBroadcast: Food Justice Residents at Santa Fe Art Institute

 

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SeedBroadcast//Food Justice at Santa Fe Art Institute

SeedBroadcast will be in residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute from April 27 – June 27, 2015 during the SFAI Food Justice Program. We would like to invite you to collaborate on a project we are calling |UN|silo|ED|. This project will map a diversity of issues surrounding Food Justice in parallel with different creative engagement processes. Our intention for this project is to tease out the relationships across disciplines of creative practices (i.e. farming, activist, policy making, artists, gardening, etc) while also taking a wide view of the many Food Justice issues facing our region and world. This project will be in process in the SFAI Lumpkin room from April 27 – June 27 and will animate several community conversations around Food Justice and creative action.

Call for Collaboration

How you can collaborate…

Please send us materials from your creative food justice projects.

1. Documents from your project processes and/or final project materials. Theses may include printable materials that we can pin up to the walls such as photographs, posters, drawings, notes, pamphlets, etc, and even small objects that can hang or rest on the wall. Please do not send original work.
2. Documents from your process which describe the who, what, why, where of your project.
3. A completed survey about your creative process….contact us and we will send you one to fill out.

Print quality materials can be sent to us via drop box at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rvx6kjpwn3tnbxw/AAAmPztUnp5nBVc1QUg1DnlXa?dl=0

Or you can mail these to:
SeedBroadcast UN|SILO|ED
Po Box 126
Anton Chico, NM 87711
USA

Please be sure to label all your participating materials so we know who/what to credit! We will not be returning any of these materials, so please do not send originals. We will archive all these materials with the hope of presenting this work again in the future.

Also....We would love to conduct an audio interview with you about your project and process. All audio interviews will be playing in the SFAI Lumpkin room.

Participate in community conversations! If you are available, we would love for you to be a part of the community conversations about Food Justice and Creative Practices.

If you are in Santa Fe during this time, give us a holler and come by to participate in the mapping process!

Please contact SeedBroadcast for more information!
Jeanette Hart-Mann and Chrissie Orr at seedbroadcast@gmail.com
Or call – 505-718-4511

SeedBroadcasting from Patagonia, AZ

SeedBroadcast will be partnering with the Patagonia Seed Library/Semilloteca and local seed keepers for Seed Story Broadcasting.

Join us on March 23rd from 1 - 4pm at the Patagonia Public Library
Bring seeds and stories to share!

March 23, 2015
1 - 4 pm
Patagonia Public Library
346 Duquesne Ave
Patagonia, AZ

Many Thanks to our amazing partners: Patagonia Public Library, Friends of the Patagonia Library, and Native Seeds/SEARCH for helping organize this event!