Workshop invites people to share meal, ‘weight of the joy’
Brook-Lynne Clark spent a lot of time at her great-grandmother’s house as a child. She remembers constantly interjecting, “Are they done yet?” while she waited in the kitchen for what felt like hours as her great-grandmother prepared Clark’s favorite: butter beans. It’s still a meal she associates with unconditional love.
Clark will be bringing her great-grandmother’s butter beans to a communal dinner she’s hosting at Arts Mission Oak Cliff this Saturday to celebrate “the dishes that raised us.” The event is part of a series of workshops the Dallas-based performance and video artist is hosting to help develop her upcoming exhibition, titled “In the Time It Took,” slated for opening in July.
Attendees are invited to bring dishes from their childhood that made them feel loved and safe, or even dishes they created to care for themselves.
