Karen Miranda Augustine
Kitchen Table Sesh | Toronto, Ontario
Karen Miranda Augustine is a visual artist and writer. Her work is influenced by the sacred arts and explores memorialization, gender, loss, and interconnectedness. She is co-founder and artistic director of the Ancestral Arts Collective — a Tkaronto collective of Black artists, healing arts practitioners, scholars, and storytellers dedicated to the reclamation of grief, death, and Afrodiasporic traditions. She holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University and is a death doula who specializes in peer bereavement.
About the Project
Hosted by the Ancestral Arts Collective, Kitchen Table Sesh is a series of community dinners that offers food as ritual, remembrance, and celebration. Each dinner will host an invited elder (or special guest) who carries wisdom relating to the confluence of art, grief, and death care. At each dinner, one recipe will be prepared together, as cooking communally, especially for an elder, serves as an act of gratitude and care for each other. The purpose of this event is to network, hold space, and build an intergenerational community of Black caregivers and death-care workers.