"Breaking bread and snapping fingers. Because to build, is to grow."
- Adobo-Fish-Sauce
Recipes for Racial Justice
Project Description
Recipes for Racial Justice was a collaboration between Adobo-Fish-Sauce and I Learn America. We partnered with two high schools; Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Boston International Newcomers Academy, and created cohorts of students we called Poet-Chefs. These workshops were rooted in Adobo-Fish Sauce practices and led to the Poet-Chefs creating their own recipes - for cooking, for creation, and for eating. We then took those recipes and the format of our workshops and made it a public event. In The Park was born out of wanting to be outside after being in Zoom rooms for far too long. The public activation of our project welcomed art invitations alongside communal eating and reflective writing.
Artist Bio
Adobo-Fish-Sauce. A Puerto Rican and a Cambodian walk into a kitchen. The kitchen is your heart. The food is made with food. The food is sometimes poems. Either way you are fed. Adobo-Fish-Sauce is an active choice to celebrate in the face of bitterness. It is responding to “Go back to where you come from!” by bringing where they are from right to you. The duo fuses spoken word, cooking, intentionality, vulnerability, and joy to create a one of a kind experience that can’t be found in any kitchen or open mic.
Anthony Febo (he/him) is a Puerto Rican poet and teaching artist working in the Greater Boston area for over a decade. Febo’s work explores what it means to actively choose joy in the face of what is trying to break you.
Ricky Orng (he/him) is a Cambodian-American organizer, designer and storyteller. He has worked extensively with youth organizations on contemporary arts and social justice projects using mediums such as photography, film, and poetry.
IG: @adobofishsauce
“Our RIRJ journey can be summed up with an exhale. A feeling of breathing easier when want and need are met. When there is financial stability to appreciate process. This journey is one of first steps over and over, and the gratitude that comes with honoring each one.”
- Adobo-Fish-Sauce
photo of bananagram activity
cards with recipes and poetic invitations
photo of AFS welcoming everyone
photo of the shadow boxes created at the event. a box per table
photo of closing circle
photo of writing inspired by the 5 Bite activity
photo of close up of sharing circle
photo of sharing circle
photo of closing sharing circle
All photos by Bountheng Tanakhone @tana_fotos
In The Park at Haley House is our premiere public activation for our project Recipes for Racial Justice, a year-long project supported and funded by community partners and grants awarded by City of Boston, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and New England Foundation For The Arts. An outdoor event where the air doesn't smell like a Zoom room.
Video of Haley House Recap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek-Ru3ZevgU
Video by Nicolas Andrew @nicolasxandrew