Food reflects place.
“The Takeout Window” is an edible, neighborhood project hosted by artist-chef Maggie Lawsonto be enjoyed one day only in North Oakland. Dishes Generously Shared
Friends and neighbors eat at “The Takeout Window”
on Saturday, May 4, 10am-7pm6149 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA
Menu
10-11:30 Susan’s Refreshing and Invigorating Juice Bar *
11:30-1 Amy & James’ Savory Pancakes with Spring Vegetables (veggie and non-veggie) *
1-2:30 Lynn’s New Orlean’s Gumbo
2:30-4 Zeida’s Artisanal Chicken & Vegetarian Tamales
4-5:30 Julia’s Raw Vegan Carrot-Avocado Soup and Stuffed Mushrooms*
5:30-7 Chris & Mario’s Thin Crust Cob-Oven Wood-Fired Pizzas with Seasonal Vegetables *
menu subject to change
*vegetarian and vegan options
GUIDED NEIGHBORHOOD JOURNEY
By sharing her family’s story, Chef Ikeena Reed, accompanies us on a historical food Journey of North Oakland
11- coffee & beignets
1-greens & corn bread
5-black-eyed peas & rice
Lawson transforms her home/studio into a site for engaging passersby to partake in the ritual of sharing food in a neighborly fashion. Like following the cartoon curling steam to a pie cooling on the windowsill, Maggie invites locals (and not-so-locals) to approach her window threshold to share and partake in the specialties of the neighborhood. She invites locals to pull up a chair and reflect on the past and dream for the future of this little corner of North Oakland. The takeout experience is complete with sidewalk-scape transformed with outdoor seating.
EngagingCities.com
“EngagingCities invites you to — well, engage!”. Thanks to Chris Haller for creating a valuable user participation design site. Many resources, community building, tools, research.
Do Ho Suh, again
Do Ho Suh, again. / place placed in another place, / landing from heavens.
HAIKU: Laurie Halsey Brown
“Fallen Star”, 2012 by Do Ho Suh @ UCSD
click for more info on project + interior images
Korean Intervention
“The experience was about transporting space from one place to the other. A way of dealing with cultural displacement.”
- Do Ho Suh
Headlands Center for the Arts – Marin, CA
freak flags are flying. / a project comes full circle. / we represent us.
PHOTOGRAPH and HAIKU: Laurie Halsey Brown
Le Quattro Volte, 2010
The circle of life, embedded within one town.
This visual poem brings to life Pythagoras’s theory that the soul moves from human to animal to vegetable to mineral in its evolutionary journey. Wordlessly, the film follows an elderly Italian goat herder as he makes the remarkable transition. Director Michelangelo Frammartino captures the essence of everyday life in the Italian countryside as the man transforms into a baby goat, a giant tree and a lump of coal.