MAEP Artist Jovan C. Speller in conversation with Gabrielle E. W. Carter, multi-disciplinary artist and cultural preservationist, and moderated by author Nicole Nfonoyim-Hara as they discuss Speller’s “Nurturing, and Other Rituals of Protection” and screen “The Seeds We Keep,” a short film by Carter. Moving beyond the narrative of a single story of Blackness, they will explore ancestral legacy and creating spaces of respite, safety, and passing on traditions of care.
Part narrative essay, part documentary, “The Seeds We Keep” lifts up a love song for the land, for generational wisdom and for the vital questions that come with making your place in it. In the film, cultural preservationist Gabrielle E. W. Carter unfolds a lush vision of what is and what could be in her meditation on Black land ownership and seed saving.