Land as Pleasure Workshop Series: Celia Denton
How can we reorient our relationship with the earth towards one of pleasure? We'll talk about food & ancestral wisdom with Celia Denton.
About this event
In the third workshop of the series, Celia Denton will be sharing her experiences interacting with food as indigenous & cultural practice. They'll guide participants through exercises designed to uncover what memories are linked to foods and how that can connect us to the land and to our ancestral practices.
More on Celia:
Celia (she/they) is a 2S Tsimshian person with a strong passion for culture, community, language, food, nature, and how those things inherently tie together. Celia currently lives in Juneau, AK working as a community coordinator for a literacy program targeting Alaska Native children age 0-5 throughout Southeast Alaska.
Her childhood was spent on the reservation of Metlakatla and in Ketchikan, Alaska. She spent most of her adult life in Anchorage working in the food industry in various capacities (front of house, back of house, retail, etc.) During that time she also achieved a bachelor's in Anthropology with a focus on culture and linguistics at the University of Alaska Anchorage. For the past several years, she has been participating in various Sm'algyax learning groups. Through professional, community, and academic work, Celia tries to flourish through identity. Most recently, this identity work has been focused on Indigenous foods and the role of Indigenous people through food sovereignty. Much have this work has been personal, but she has also made some connection through work with a Minneapolis based nonprofit called NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems.) Her goal is to be involved with something similar for Alaska.
(image descriptions: banner is of a brown person, smiling and baking)
How can we reorient our relationship with the earth towards one of pleasure? We'll talk about food & ancestral wisdom with Celia Denton.
About this event
In the third workshop of the series, Celia Denton will be sharing her experiences interacting with food as indigenous & cultural practice. They'll guide participants through exercises designed to uncover what memories are linked to foods and how that can connect us to the land and to our ancestral practices.
More on Celia:
Celia (she/they) is a 2S Tsimshian person with a strong passion for culture, community, language, food, nature, and how those things inherently tie together. Celia currently lives in Juneau, AK working as a community coordinator for a literacy program targeting Alaska Native children age 0-5 throughout Southeast Alaska.
Her childhood was spent on the reservation of Metlakatla and in Ketchikan, Alaska. She spent most of her adult life in Anchorage working in the food industry in various capacities (front of house, back of house, retail, etc.) During that time she also achieved a bachelor's in Anthropology with a focus on culture and linguistics at the University of Alaska Anchorage. For the past several years, she has been participating in various Sm'algyax learning groups. Through professional, community, and academic work, Celia tries to flourish through identity. Most recently, this identity work has been focused on Indigenous foods and the role of Indigenous people through food sovereignty. Much have this work has been personal, but she has also made some connection through work with a Minneapolis based nonprofit called NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems.) Her goal is to be involved with something similar for Alaska.
(image descriptions: banner is of a brown person, smiling and baking)
How can we reorient our relationship with the earth towards one of pleasure? We'll talk about food & ancestral wisdom with Celia Denton.
About this event
In the third workshop of the series, Celia Denton will be sharing her experiences interacting with food as indigenous & cultural practice. They'll guide participants through exercises designed to uncover what memories are linked to foods and how that can connect us to the land and to our ancestral practices.
More on Celia:
Celia (she/they) is a 2S Tsimshian person with a strong passion for culture, community, language, food, nature, and how those things inherently tie together. Celia currently lives in Juneau, AK working as a community coordinator for a literacy program targeting Alaska Native children age 0-5 throughout Southeast Alaska.
Her childhood was spent on the reservation of Metlakatla and in Ketchikan, Alaska. She spent most of her adult life in Anchorage working in the food industry in various capacities (front of house, back of house, retail, etc.) During that time she also achieved a bachelor's in Anthropology with a focus on culture and linguistics at the University of Alaska Anchorage. For the past several years, she has been participating in various Sm'algyax learning groups. Through professional, community, and academic work, Celia tries to flourish through identity. Most recently, this identity work has been focused on Indigenous foods and the role of Indigenous people through food sovereignty. Much have this work has been personal, but she has also made some connection through work with a Minneapolis based nonprofit called NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems.) Her goal is to be involved with something similar for Alaska.
(image descriptions: banner is of a brown person, smiling and baking)