Word of Mouth Salon on October 9

Deborah Kodish (LTA '14) will host Word of Mouth Salon on October 9 from 6:00pm-10:00pm, address provided upon rsvp-ing (debora.kodish[at]gmail.com.) Dinner will be provided. This salon is an experiment in supporting critical thinking and practice. Expect an evening of readings, storytelling, conversation, and activities focusing on community-building. Share and hear current thinking about how to: sustain livable communities; support one anothers’ work; re-imagine collective histories (and futures). And move and sing together! Artists in many disciplines have ways to “woodshed”: to develop work. This salon is a time and place to play together: Collectively source and test ideas. Mix-up habits of “revolutionaries and clairvoyants.”* Share good things to think. 

The program will include:

Dinner and drinks 

• Jeannine Osayande: movement
• Nana Korantema Ayeboafo: sound
• Caroliese Frink-Reed: celebration of her having recently earned her Ph.D. Dr. Reed will speak about the chapter not included in her dissertation on African American storytelling.
• Debora Kodish will discuss recent writing and share excerpts (“An Open Letter to the American Folklore Society” and “Notes for a book on Home Training”)
• Discussion and activities

Activities will invite you to respond to any or all of the following questions: 

• BIG QUESTIONS: What’s on your mind? What are you thinking about? What questions consume you? 
• CULTURAL ANTI-TOXINS: What do you recognize as a cultural anti-toxin: something that works for / innoculates towards cultural well-being? How might we generate, reproduce and disseminate cultural anti-toxins? 
• RECIPES FOR WELL-BEING: What is something good to think, read, see, do that you recommend? Literally, can you share a recipe? A place to go? An activity you enjoy? A good movie or book or author or artist? 

*from Toni Cade Bambara