The Future in Your Cup: a Book Talk and Coffee Reading for the New Year

Welcome the New Year with a book about alternatives for a better future we can share! Kristin Anahit Cass will read selections from her futurist book Reparations of the Heart, sharing some of the beautiful, often surreal, images from the book. This will be followed by a time for questions and answers and a short video about the ritual of coffee divination. We will prepare coffee, and each guest will have the opportunity to have their cup read for clues to the future in the year ahead. Coffee divination is a ritual that connects the reader to the coffee drinker in a special way. Anahit connects with each person who comes for a reading, and sometimes that connection with a stranger will have an unexpected positive energy that flows into the future long after the reading is finished. She looks forward to reading your cup and sharing visions of a better future!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity rejects the imperialist narratives and hopelessness that loom around us, standing in solidarity with Indigenous people everywhere. Instead, it proposes an alternative future where creativity, culture, and community flourish. Moving from past to present and into the future, memories of beloved ancestors inform various artistic iterations of futurity, as narrated by the vast diversity of their photographic subjects.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kristin Anahit Cass is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist. Cass’s work imagines the future, connects to the past, and envisions a better world. As Hyperallergic noted, Cass’s work “recognizes the lived experience of trauma, yet owns the ability of humans to individually and collectively reframe that experience in their hearts to make way for reparations.” In addition to her arts education, Cass has advocated for social justice in her career as a lawyer. She is a founder of the LGBTQ platform Entanik (Family), actively supporting creatives in the global community.

SCHEDULE

2-2:30 PM New Year, new beginnings- let’s talk about the future! Reparations of the Heart- a book about a new futurity. Selected readings and images from the book and a short video about the ritual of coffee reading.
2:30-4 PM What’s the future in your cup? How to practice Coffee Divination and individual coffee readings.

SPACE & ACCESSIBILITY

The Shop at MATTER is wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral bathrooms. Chairs are provided for all. Please reach out to [email protected] with accommodation requests.

Masks are encouraged.

Host or Publisher MATTER, Ltd.