Arts Across America: Indigenous Food Systems with Lyla June

Published 2021-05-29
The Kennedy Center joins Lyla June for the next episode of #ArtsAcrossAmerica exploring Indigenous food and health. 🌎 💻 🍴

Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives, and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalization.

Lyla will join hosts poet and performance artist Jasmine Mans and New York Times best-selling author Jason Reynolds.

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Presented as part of Arts Across America-a performance and dialogue series presented every other Saturday with a focus on cultural leadership and public healing for our country, communities, and selves. Learn more at www.kennedy-center.org/ArtsAcrossAmerica

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All Comments (9)
  • Lyla June, by enhancing the sophistication, has shone a light on appreciation. Felt honored to hear the depth of her caring when listening.
  • @js4370
    This is so very beautiful!! Deeply beautiful! Thank you for sharing, Lyla June!
  • @barbc.6996
    This was a fascinating presentation. I learned so much from Lyla June about the mindset of colonizers vs. the mindset of Indigenous peoples with regard to food. I hope Lyla June will give another presentation soon.
  • @bsuzanna
    I loved this. Thank you! ♥️