La Milpa en Tiempos de Pandemia (La Milpa in Pandemic Times) live from Oakland and Oaxaca is a Techno-Tamaladas Webinar/Dialogo we’ll share on Friday, October 30, 4pm - 5pm Pacific Standard Time, hosted by Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS.
Praba Pilar and project collaborators Charlotte Sáenz and Ben Simmons will share updates on the Techno-Tamaladas and our cultivating and harvesting of a community milpa in 2020. In this webinar, we will be asking: How can ancestral Indigenous Technologies of Life, such as the integrated traditional milpa (aka three sisters of corn, beans, and squash), help us build greater resilience in these pandemic times? How can these knowledges and practices build and nourish urban communities, transcending the increasing divisions and isolation exacerbated by COVID-19 and other climate crises? What lessons do we carry from previous epidemics, such as the AIDS crisis? What learnings can we carry with us as we prepare for the mounting challenges ahead?
REGISTRATION
We will be hosting this webinar on Zoom, to make it as accessible as we can. You can join us via computer and webcam/microphone, or via telephone. Please click the registration button below, fill out the form with your name, email address, and any questions, and we will send you the Zoom link closer to October 30th. Gracias! Note: Registration was disabled after the event.
This webinar has received support from the Community Rapid Response Fund of Headlands Center for the Arts.