Adobo-Fish-Sauce

Photos courtesy of the artist

RIRJ Project Description

Young Boston migrant youth-leaders/poet-chefs will collaborate with Adobo-Fish-Sauce (AFS) and I Learn America to cook up stories -- poignant, provocative, but always flavorful -- that will help participants create art celebrating their cultural identity; share meals with cross-cultural dialogue; and engage family and communities to better understand their humanity, thus challenging racist stereotypes. AFS combines cooking and poetry because each tells stories, delicious on their own, but richer/more imaginative when combined. Their practice itself is a home - a welcoming space where connections are fused, where intersectional identities are valued in their complexity and authenticity is welcomed.

Artist Bios

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.