Siobhan Barker

“Tea-Chings” uses cooking as a medium for ancestral storytelling

By: Jocelyn Stevens, SFU Student This year’s rEvolver Festival by Upintheair Theatre presented Harvesting Ancestral “Tea-Chings,” by Siobhan Barker in a live screening Zoom event and Q&A on May 26. The event featured cooking and storytelling intertwined to share experiences about cultural roots, intersectionality, and the Black/African diaspora. Despite it being a virtual screening, Barker made us feel like we were all present with her: it was a stunning and approachable experience.  What intrigued me about this performance was that it interactively focused on reconnecting to cultural roots through storytelling and traditional cooking. Barker opened the performance with a call to…

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