Thursday, April 20, 2023
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
CSSJ Gallery, 94 Waterman Street, Providence RI
“Serving a Plate Back Home” is an audio interview series and photo exhibition that explores the stories of five restaurant owners — Yveline, Joaquin, Welbi, Milena, and Jenny — who have reimagined how and where they can make home. This project offers a glimpse into the personal journeys and intentions behind five restaurants that function as enclaves for Latinx and Caribbean communities in Providence, Rhode Island. Serving diverse customers from multifaceted yet culturally-rooted menus, each establishment serves as a nourishing site of transnational convening and a counternarrative on the predominantly-white New England landscape. These five restaurant owners build for themselves, their communities, and all Rhode Islanders spaces that transcend the limits of geographical borders and expand the practice of storytelling into the culinary.
We invite you to join us in celebrating these restaurant owners and their stories through food and the opening of the photography exhibition at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice on Monday, March 20, 4-5:30 pm.
This exhibition will remain on view through Friday, April 21, 2023.
This exhibition is part of the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar “Rethinking the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America,” led by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and the Department of Africana Studies, Rites and Reason Theatre.