About this Event
Artists Linda Goode Bryant and Mary Mattingly explore strategies around food sovereignty in a time of increasing inaccessibility to quality sustenance and nourishing food systems. They have both long understood the intersection of creative practice as tactics to address the inequities of food access, from Bryant’s work through the living installation of Project Eats, to Mattingly’s waterbound food forests, which reimagine the possibilities of foraging in public space.
The program will be melodically interwoven with the surrounding plant life, and include an opportunity to learn about foraging practices as we share a meal. We will also screen an excerpt from Bryant’s documentary from her project Still Life at the Venice Biennale 2026, which includes a 3500 square foot farm that grapples with environmental precarity, rising sea levels, and the impacts of climate change for coastal farming.
Free and open to the public at CTHQ.
Entry
CTHQ is located on the 7th Floor of 59 East 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. The building entrance has no steps and elevator access is provided directly to CTHQ.
Service animals are welcome.
Restrooms
One ADA accessible, all-gender restroom is located inside CTHQ.
What We Sow: Food Sovereignty as Sanctuary is part of Toward Sanctuary, a series of programs exploring the cultivation of sanctuary as a living history and ongoing aspiration inspired by Guadalupe Maravilla’s artistic practice and upcoming Creative Time public art commission.
Events will take place at CTHQ and engage other spaces across the city, including a nightclub and an urban farm.
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Event venue & nearby stays
Creative Time, 59 East 4th Street, New York, United States
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