Fall 2022 UPCOMING EVENTS!
The Farm is only opened for scheduled events and programs.
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Please call (765) 560-5445 and leave a message if you would like more information.
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Please call (765) 560-5445 and leave a message if you would like more information.
Upcoming Events...
AFRICA VT Communicating Through Music: A Communal Music Composition Workshop. Saturday, September 17, 2022 from 1-2:30 PM
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Musician Ousmane Camara will engage communty members in a participatory experience with the West African balafone and djembe! Ousmane will perform on the balafone with accompaniment by another artist on djembe. He'll then help everyone create communal music, using instruments that participants bring along with them, in a community workshop full of music and fun!
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Bring your favorite instrument. Ousmane will help participants to share the sounds of their musical instruments in a communal ensemble. All skill levels are welcome. Attendees will also explore how they use their musical instruments to communicate their thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
This storytelling workshop is designed for family audiences ages 6 and up. Maximum of 30 attendees.
This storytelling workshop is designed for family audiences ages 6 and up. Maximum of 30 attendees.
Our Language, Literature & Lore Series continues with two more amazing authors this Fall!
Writing With Voice: A Double Writing Workshop with Two Artists-In-Residence, Saturday, October 1, 2022 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Feel the warmth and artistry of California on the Clemmons farm this Fall! Join authors and associate professors Keenan Norris (San Jose State University) and Duana Fullwiley (Stanford University) at the Clemmons farm for two powerful writing workshops designed for finding and/or uplifting your voice through fiction and non-fiction writing. Participants can be writers at any level who work in diverse genres. Your are welcome to bring your favorite writing elements, however, journals will be provided.
Keenan Norris is an Associate Professor of American literature and creative writing at San Jose State University and in November 2021 he was the University of Virginia's Rea Visiting Writer. His scholarship, editorials and essays have appeared in the Oxford Bibliographies in African-American History, TED-ED, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Chronicle, Alta and many other venues.
Keenan Norris’s book of essays, Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings, will be published in November. His latest novel, The Confession of Copeland Cane, was published in 2021. His essay “One Coyote” won a 2021 Folio: Eddie Award and was a runner-up for a National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. His debut novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award.
Duana Fullwiley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is a literary medical anthropologist who brings together global takes on science, medicine and the body. Her work broadly engages questions of ethics, genetics and how humans imagine and seed ideas of difference that can separate and estrange, celebrate or disparage, embolden and hierarchize, maximize or minimize some aspect of group identities. She has authored anthropological works focused on the human actors within science that have written the normative languages of their fields in terms of race, nation, territory, and ever-shifting concepts of inclusion. Her work is interdisciplinary and multi-lingual (English, French, Wolof), while her first book, The Enculturated Gene, spans and connects metropolises that are not often linked (Oakland, Paris, Dakar). She has also written numerous articles on ancestry genetics.
The larger themes of her work have also inspired her artistic engagements with medical power and scientific legacies that emerge in her literary writings and curations published in venues such as Ars Medica, The Boston Review and exhibited at the San Francisco Exploratorium. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Keenan Norris is an Associate Professor of American literature and creative writing at San Jose State University and in November 2021 he was the University of Virginia's Rea Visiting Writer. His scholarship, editorials and essays have appeared in the Oxford Bibliographies in African-American History, TED-ED, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Chronicle, Alta and many other venues.
Keenan Norris’s book of essays, Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings, will be published in November. His latest novel, The Confession of Copeland Cane, was published in 2021. His essay “One Coyote” won a 2021 Folio: Eddie Award and was a runner-up for a National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. His debut novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award.
Duana Fullwiley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is a literary medical anthropologist who brings together global takes on science, medicine and the body. Her work broadly engages questions of ethics, genetics and how humans imagine and seed ideas of difference that can separate and estrange, celebrate or disparage, embolden and hierarchize, maximize or minimize some aspect of group identities. She has authored anthropological works focused on the human actors within science that have written the normative languages of their fields in terms of race, nation, territory, and ever-shifting concepts of inclusion. Her work is interdisciplinary and multi-lingual (English, French, Wolof), while her first book, The Enculturated Gene, spans and connects metropolises that are not often linked (Oakland, Paris, Dakar). She has also written numerous articles on ancestry genetics.
The larger themes of her work have also inspired her artistic engagements with medical power and scientific legacies that emerge in her literary writings and curations published in venues such as Ars Medica, The Boston Review and exhibited at the San Francisco Exploratorium. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Past Events...
Bring it to Life: Engaging African Folklore to Express Our Human Connectedness with Lisa Martin: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 at 1:00 PM
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About this event
Join literary artist Lisa Martin as she engages the audience in an immersive creative activity that fosters community and human connection. Lisa will begin the session by identifying knowledge that you bring to the collective gathering, through journaling and sharing personal and familial quotes. The circle will then venture into African Proverbs as a part of African Folklore and compare familiar everyday sayings to African proverbs. How are they similar in meaning? How do everyday sayings and proverbs relate to current lifestyles, folkways and values? |
I Tell You My Story and You Tell Me Yours: Ancestral Storytelling, Quilt-Making and Poetry Workshop
On location at Authentica Art Gallery, Clemmons Farm. Saturday, August 13 from 1 - 2:30 pm.
About this event
Join Artist Christle Rawlins-Jackson as she shares the story of her ancestors who were the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia, and her experiences in the Slave forts in Ghana, through quilts and poetry. After her presentation, Christle will lead participants in creating quilt collage postcards and/or short poems to tell their own ancestral stories.
This storytelling workshop is designed for family audiences ages 5 and up.
Join Artist Christle Rawlins-Jackson as she shares the story of her ancestors who were the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia, and her experiences in the Slave forts in Ghana, through quilts and poetry. After her presentation, Christle will lead participants in creating quilt collage postcards and/or short poems to tell their own ancestral stories.
This storytelling workshop is designed for family audiences ages 5 and up.
Photo: Image of the section of a quilt created by artist Christle Rawlins-Jackson.
About the artist
Christle Rawlins-Jackson is a Vermont fiber artist, poet, and graphic designer. Rawlins-Jackson has exhibited her story quilts and performed her poetry throughout New England. She is co-founder and vice president of Sisters In Stitches Joined By The Cloth- a quilt guild whose mission is to uphold the tradition of African American quiltmaking and toeducate the general public about the rich history of people of color and cloth. She is president of The Beacon Hill Scholars- an organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of nineteenth century African American abolitionists who lived and owned businesses on Beacon Hill.
Ms. Rawlins-Jackson's work is greatly influenced by her life and work in Ghana, West Africa and by her research into her ancestors–the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia- as well as the Nipmuc people of Massachusetts. She is a member of the Vermont African-American/African Diaspora Artists' Network (VAAADAN).
Christle Rawlins-Jackson is a Vermont fiber artist, poet, and graphic designer. Rawlins-Jackson has exhibited her story quilts and performed her poetry throughout New England. She is co-founder and vice president of Sisters In Stitches Joined By The Cloth- a quilt guild whose mission is to uphold the tradition of African American quiltmaking and toeducate the general public about the rich history of people of color and cloth. She is president of The Beacon Hill Scholars- an organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of nineteenth century African American abolitionists who lived and owned businesses on Beacon Hill.
Ms. Rawlins-Jackson's work is greatly influenced by her life and work in Ghana, West Africa and by her research into her ancestors–the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia- as well as the Nipmuc people of Massachusetts. She is a member of the Vermont African-American/African Diaspora Artists' Network (VAAADAN).
More Past Events...
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City of Hope Exhibit and Books at Authentica Gallery. Saturdays 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon July 16 - August 6.
Omega Jade: Elevate: Rise of Mama MC. Saturday July 23: 7 - 8 PM.
Juneteenth Re-Celebration! Building Legacies That Matter. Sunday July 24: 1 - 4 PM.
Creative Placemaking at the Clemmons Farm with Visual Artist Harlan Mack. Saturday July 30: 2 - 3:30 PM.
City of Hope Exhibit and Books at Authentica Gallery. Saturdays 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon July 16 - August 6.
Omega Jade: Elevate: Rise of Mama MC. Saturday July 23: 7 - 8 PM.
Juneteenth Re-Celebration! Building Legacies That Matter. Sunday July 24: 1 - 4 PM.
Creative Placemaking at the Clemmons Farm with Visual Artist Harlan Mack. Saturday July 30: 2 - 3:30 PM.
More fantastic African-American and African Diaspora visual, performing and culinary community arts programming will be posted very soon: stay tuned!!
