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Abundant Futures: Milk Songs, here, there and everywhere

ArtHouse Jersey - operating name of Jersey Arts Trust

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Tue, 12th Nov, 2024

Milk Songs, here, there and everywhere is the latest stage of Abundant Futures, a long-term, socially engaged project commissioned by ArtHouse Jersey and led by Romanian artist Dana Olărescu. Abundant Futures explores the resources, capabilities, and agency within Jersey's minority nationals through the lens of food justice, highlighting and honouring the diverse insights and skills they bring from their homelands. Through workshops, performances, interventions, installations and research with artists and organisations based in Jersey and internationally, Abundant Futures aims to foster solidarity across migrant groups while addressing barriers such as environmental, racial, and social injustices that may hinder certain residents from engaging in such dialogues. Across the summer of 2023, Abundant Futures hosted the Jersey Green Rope Project with Irish artist William Bock, which explored the Irish tradition of Sugán rope-making to bring people, nature and conversation together. Artist Kaajal Modi’s project Native Tongues also explored land, language and food biodiversity with children and elders by collecting and giving Jèrriais names to plants across the Island. For Milk Songs, here, there and everywhere, Fozia Ismail of the Bristol-based dhaqan collective is exploring migrant rituals, stories, and songs related to the act of milking. How do diverse milk traditions relate to the experiences of the people who inhabit this Island, past and present? Through a series of workshops and a final sharing Fozia will be creating a listening space that reflects this intimate relationship of people, land and animals. To get involved please check www.arthousejersey.je Venue to be announced, free entry.

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