ABOUT THIS YEAR’S DINNERS
SESSION 68 FELLOWS DINNER
SAT, MAY 16
the Annex, 7:30pm
Our May dinner is a collaboration with Luna Vela, a Mexico-born, Texas-raised chef, artist, and anthropologist whose practice moves between the kitchen, cultural institutions, and the field. Rooted in Tejana culture, queer futurity, and the traditional technologies of nixtamalization, fermentation, and live fire, her culinary work is inspired by alchemical processes. She is the founder of Neighborhood Molino, a community masa project based in Austin, TX, and formerly served as Director of Masa and Fermentation for award-winning restaurants across Texas. Her interdisciplinary practice spans collective food-making, film, performance, and the dance between permanence and the ephemeral. She cooks from a place that honors ancestral memory, land, and intuition, with the quiet knowledge that feeding people is a political and sacred act of love. Sign up here. This menu is gluten free.
SESSION 69 FELLOWS DINNER
SAT, JULY 12
the Annex, 7:30pm
Our July dinner is a collaboration with Adriana Gallo, an artist, writer, and culinary practitioner based in New York with roots in Milan, Italy and the Northeastern US. Gallo’s practice explores ecologies of labor and what she calls the “metabolic sublime” through installation, sculpture, text, workshops, and meals. She conceptualizes cooking as poetic labor, a dialectical and tactile practice that transmits personal and political knowledge. She has exhibited and cooked internationally with communities in New York, London, and beyond. Gallo is the author of Pasta Cosmologies, published by Desuetude Press, and she writes and lectures on topics including food, labor and theory. Sign up here. This menu is vegetarian, and contains gluten.
SESSION 70 FELLOWS DINNER
SUN, SEPTEMBER 5
the Annex, 7:30pm
Our September dinner brings back a Lighthouse Works alumna: Gabby Constantine, an artist and chef raised in Philadelphia by an Armenian matriarchy and in the restaurant industry. Her upbringing has inexplicably informed her material, linguistic, and performative decisions surrounding her sculptures, installations, and gatherings. Alongside her more sculptural practice, Constantine has shared in cooking dinners and hosting gatherings with communities in Philadelphia, Mexico City, Austin, and is consistently and continually innovating ways of gathering community through art and food.Constantine holds a double BFA in Sculpture and Fibers from Tyler School of Art and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Sign up here. This menu is pescetarian.
SESSION 71 FELLOWS DINNER
SUN, NOVEMBER 1
TBA – 6:30pm
Collaboration TBA. Sign up here.
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Lighthouse Works CONNECTS artists and writers to Fishers Island, NY, SUPPORTS the development of their work, and CREATES opportunities for them to share it.
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