Homegrown Dialogues

A one-day symposium featuring a live musical performance of and panel discussions about Andromeda Turre's 2024 album From the Earth, featuring Turre (a vocalist, environmental advocate, and jazz media professional), members of her ensemble, scholars, and activists promoting African American and Indigenous cultural traditions in the arts, public education, and spiritual practices. "Homegrown Dialogues" foregrounds the connections between the invocation of these holistic knowledge traditions, ecological sustainability, and expressive culture in Turre's project and the generations-old traditions of African American women's community stewardship. As Turre’s collaborator Dr. Jifunza Wright-Carter says in Turre’s composition “Grandmother’s Permission,” “who the soil would speak to is the women who are tied to the Earth and therefore tied to this ancient way of [knowing] we’re all connected.”

Host or Publisher Yale Institute of Sacred Music