Thursday, September 18, 6-8pm
With Andy Jacobs and Myrna Jacobs and food from La Morada
Join us for a celebration of community and land with Andy Jacobs—matriarchal leader and member of the Delaware Nation, alongside her granddaughter Myrna Jacobs. Share time, dances, stories, and experiences along with a delicious meal from La Morada, fireside. This Kinstillatory Fire is in celebratory relationship with the Indigenous Equinox Gatherings, curated by Center CIRCL. All are welcome.
Matriarchal leader Andy Jacobs is a member of the Delaware Nation of Moraviantown, Ontario. She grew up surrounded by the history of her people, and teaches about their culture and history through historical interpretation. She participates in several living history events alongside other Tribal citizens and seeks to educate the public about the influence of history on the present.
Myrna Jacobs is a member of Munsee-Delaware Nation Ontario. She is 4 years old. She is starting to speak the Delaware Language. She is the granddaughter of Andy Jacobs who she does living history work alongside.
La Morada serves Indigenous Oaxaca Food from their restaurant in the South Bronx. They serve hundreds of free meals to refugees daily and runs multiple mutual and community aid programs from their brick and mortar and social media spaces.
FREE!
ABOUT KINSTILLATORY MAPPINGS IN LIGHT AND DARK MATTER
Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is an ongoing collaboration between choreographer, writer, and organizer Emily Johnson and scholar, artist, and writer Kai Recollet. In its eighth year, this fall season’s Kinstillatory fires organize us around extended time—with one another, with sound, provocation, action.
These kinstillatory fires centering anti-colonial Indigenous, feminist, and gender-expansive care ethics and practices are hosted, held, and lightly curated by Johnson and Recollet, along with invited guests and community partners. The fire is central and communities are invited to GATHER HERE as we articulate our collective futures, our otherwise possibilities. It is a place to bring practices, grammars, and needs forward and through the portals that fire allows. The fire itself is process, a way to bring us out of the catastrophe of now and into the kinstillatory that is care, that is necessary. A provocation, and an offering of seed, of vessel, of protection, of becomingness.