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Dear Friends,
There is so much going on. But really only one thing going on. Vote. Everything else is noise.
Except it’s not. Not at all, but you know what we mean.
Here is some of what else matters to us in the coming months, in our world and your’s.
The Kitchen Sisters
Davia & Nikki
Books we’re reading:
We’re working on a new book calledShow the Girls the Snakes, a mix of stories, how to tell stories and memoir, so we’re reading every memoir we can get our hands on. Any suggestions? Here’s what we’re reading now:
Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabokov
My Life on the Road – Gloria Steinem
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
And on other fronts:
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds – Lyndall Gordon
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America – Gilbert King
Dated Emcees – Chinaka Hodge
Events we are going to / hosting / wish we were going to:
Notes From the Field – Master storyteller, Anna Deavere Smith with musician Marcus Shelby. Her new play looks at education, crime, and the Baltimore she left behind. 2econdStageTheatre, New York. (Now playing)
An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams – A Benefit for Point Reyes National Seashore Association, Pt. Reyes, CA. (Oct 22)
Smithsonian Food History Weekend – The Kitchen Sisters talking Hidden Political Kitchens, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. (Oct 27-29)
Letter to a Man – Mikhail Baryshnikov in a staging of Vaslav Nijinsky’s diaries, BAM, New York. (Oct 15-30)
City Arts and Lectures – Joel Coen in conversation with Davia Nelson. One Coen Brother, one Kitchen Sister, San Francisco, CA. (Nov 29)
Kitchen Sisters Interviewing, Recording & Podcasting Workshop, San Francisco (Dec 8) – sign up here.
Films we’re watching:
Moonlight – Saw this remarkable, hypnotic film at the Telluride Film Festival. Barry Jenkins’ haunting story of a boy coming of age in South Florida. The cast includes Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes and Janelle Monáe.
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) – Situated off Italy’s southern coast, Lampedusa has been the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants hoping to make a new life in Europe. Director Gianfranco Rosi spent months living on the Mediterranean island, capturing its history, culture and the current, desperate everyday reality. His film is gut-wrenching and stunning.
Command and Control – A collaboration between Robert Kenner (Food, Inc) & Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation). How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?
Cameraperson – Over the past 25 years, Kirsten Johnson has worked as a camera operator or cinematographer on more than 50 documentary films, including Citizenfour, The Invisible War, and Fahrenheit 9/11. Now she’s directed Cameraperson, which she calls a visual “memoir.” It incorporates footage she shot for various documentaries over that quarter century. –Boston Globe
Threads we’re pulling:
Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse – Dosa at Cooper Hewitt in NYC
Works on Paper from Permanent Collection – a new collaboration between Fanny Singer and Mariah Nielson.
Lenny – Feminism, style, health, politics, friendship and everything else from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner.
Podcasts we’re pumping:
Radiotopia Fall Fundraiser – Our mighty podcast collective is having it’s annual Fundraiser. If you love podcasts, and we know you do, Radiotopia is the network to support. 15 podcasts and growing — 99% Invisible, Criminal, Radio Diaries, Love + Radio, Millennial, Mortified, Song Exploder, The Allusionist, The Heart, West Wing Weekly, Theory of Everything, the Memory Palace, Strangers, The Truth and ours, Fugitive Waves.
Music we’re spinning:
Anything/everything by Nobel Laureate, Bob Dylan
Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese born trumpeter
Hip-hop of old from Jonathan Lethem’s list.
Nintendo themes of old from Michael Chabon’s list.
Angel Olsen
Compared to What – Les McCann & Eddie Harris (listen here)
Projects we’re supporting:
The American Project – Vote
Tuesday, November 8
Can’t Talk, Gotta Run: 10 Women Who Could Flip the Senate
(in case you missed it)
The Edible Schoolyard programs in Berkeley, New York, New Orleans and the Charlottesville Food Justice Network
Rock the Vote
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