untune’s Fall Residency from throughout November includes creatives exploring issues concerning FOOD-history, insecurity, sovereignty, and our modern food system as a colonial one. The group navigates and learns from land, food access, mutual aid practices, indigenous seeds, ethnobotany, waste, and modes of food as study. We aim to expand the ways we might understand “consumption” outside of direct bodily absorption and implicated with an ethos of sovereignty and as a process of becoming bodies, together. Threaded by this ethos, we examine our local resources and alternatives strategies to ways governing bodies handle our food system from city infrastructure to public health, to access to care. 

The residency program takes place at Canvas 5025 on Chumash and Tongva land, located in the San Rafael hills in North East Los Angeles.  We are dedicated to understanding the land we occupy and learning how to better support Indigenous culture and sociocultural history through our stewardship. 

The Fall residency cohort includes Rey Reyes, Michael Bailey, Bahía Collective, Anna Cho-Son, Maryam Hosseinzadeh and Helga Rabieh Fassonaki 

On Saturday November 23rd, Bahía Collective in collaboration with untune’s residency presents Recipes for the End of Empire, a screening and dinner centered on exploring ‘recipes’ for surviving the colonial project and for healing the world in the times to come.

Join us for an evening of films and food as we reimagine the space of the film screening as a sacred, solitary experience and create a gathering where people are free to talk to each other, yell back at the screen, and ask questions as the film plays.

The menu consists of four films from Palestine, Sudan and Martinique and four surprise food courses. Tickets are $25 and all proceeds will be donated to mutual aid funds in Gaza and Sudan. 

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Doors open at 7, dinner & screening at 7:30pm

Bahía Collective – Bahía Collective is a group of filmmakers, artists, and curators from South Africa, Palestine, Cuba, Mexico, India, and Russia, focused on collaborative practice and community building. Through our curations and events—both virtual and in-person—we create spaces to gather around cinema in relation to current politics, food, music, and literature. The films we produce and direct are formally explorative and delve into themes of borders, migration, memory, oral histories, mythologies, ghosts, landscapes as protagonists, physical and virtual realities, the dark web, land and territory, exile, gender, ancestry, and waves.