The Food
One of the goals originally was to create a cook book based on farmer's markets, and the specialties those farmers had based on the specific crops they grew. Another was to create vegan and vegetarian food that had deep and vibrant flavors, much has been learned, but the basics remain the same: Know your land, know your food, eat like you love.
The People
Over the years, so many different people from various walks of life have come to break bread at our table, to tell their stories and learn those of others. These are some of our memories.
Various Projects: Hope House Event
This was the first event the SS community ever did as a whole, we had a regular who worked for Hope House and thought it would be nice to do something for then for Christmas. After raising money and collecting donated objects we prepared a local meal, had the kids make cards and gifts for their mothers and gave the mothers gift bags with ear rings and beauty products they usually wouldn't have had the access or means to. It was one of the best Christmas's I've ever had, to see the women smile and to know it was because a group of people who came together from disparate backgrounds for a collective purpose was the best gift I ever got.
Various Projects: Silence Retreat
The Sunday community takes an annual retreat to a wonderful place called the Hollis Center, where we remove ourselves from both urban and technological life for a few days to remember the language of the animate landscape only found in a reverent and humble silence.
Various Projects: Woimnayankel
Woimnayankel is the Lakota word for reverence, sublimity and the Aurora Borealis. Past students, community members and friends came out to breathe in the natural world and to approach art like a vision quest, liminally removing themselves from one mindset and moving towards another. the result was everything and more, art AS experience.
Various Projects: Urban Farms Tour
The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture [Now Cultivate KC] asked Motuv and the HomeGrown Project at the Kansas City Art Institute to be part of the 2011 Farms Tour, good times were had by all.
