IMPACTS OF COVID-19

on February 22, 2020 ben, charlotte and i reLaunched the project at Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, sharing information on maize, tamales, tamaladas, NIXTAMALIZATION, and upcoming dates & locations. IN RESPECT OF COVID-19 SOCIAL DISTANCING and TO PREVENT COMMUNITY SPREAD, ALL IN PERSON EVENTS WERE:

2020 Events Postponed Indefinitely:

Full Tamalada at Providence House, which provides subsidized apartments especially built for people on a fixed income living with HIV/AIDS or other disabilities, downtown Oakland; Full Tamalada at Huerta de Dolores garden of the Cesar Chavez Branch of the Oakland Public Library, Fruitvale, Oakland; and Full Tamalada with POOR MAGAZINE at Homefulness community in East Oakland

Cancelled:

• Tamalada performance at Tompkins Square Park, New York City; Participation in Grafters Xchange, Hamilton, New York; Outdoor Tamalada, performances, and video screening, Oscar Grant Plaza, Downtown Oakland; Tamalada in the HASTAC 2020 conference, hosted by the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas.

In May of 2020, we continued the project anew, by planting and cultivating a community milpa, cultivating and growing organic corn in Big Daddy’s Rejuvenating Community Garden in Emeryville, with help from Master Gardener and sculptor Vickie Jo Sowell, and in a garden in Fruitvale