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Food is where we meet, where we build, where we struggle, and where we survive Food is where we meet, where we build, where we struggle, and where we survive.

The People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC) works at the intersection of art and activism as a food-centered political education project. Based in Oakland, California, our creative practices reflect the diverse histories and backgrounds of collective members Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Jocelyn Jackson, and Saqib Keval. Written in our family's recipes are the maps of our migrations and the stories of our resi

lience. It is from this foundation that we create immersive experiences that celebrate centuries of shared struggle.

03/09/2026

See you for the short presentation of the FIRE section of our film EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality this Friday @ 5pm at CineLux in Watsonville. Thank you WFF for screening the Central Coast portion of our documentary! Incredible community activist groups Tierras Milperas, Bitter Cotyledons, and more are featured. Repost from
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Where We Belong is a powerful shorts program exploring home, land, sanctuary, and activism.

These stories center immigrant families fighting for protection, unhoused women building community in the redwoods of Santa Cruz, and radical hospitality rooted in food justice and collective care. 🌎🏡🌱

This is about dignity. This is about resistance. This is about who gets to belong.

Featuring:
* “Expanding Sanctuary” by Kristal Sotomayor
* “HomeTown HomeLess” by Maleah Rose Welsh
* “EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality” by Fox Nakai & Jocelyn Jackson

🗓️ Friday, March 13 | 5:00 PM
📍 CineLux Green Valley Cinema
💚 FREE and open to the community.
🎤 Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers and special guests.

🎟️ Reserve your FREE ticket today: 2026wff.eventive.org (link in our bio)

11/07/2025

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SOLD OUT * We’ll be partnering with People’s Kitchen Collective to screen the film EARTH SEED on Saturday, November 8 from 1:00-4:00 pm in the Community Engagement Center at ACCFB.

Sign up at the link in our bio.

EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March – June 2023. Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice. It does so by deepening our relationships with BIPOC activists, artists, educators, farmers, youth, and elders.

10/31/2025

*UPDATED DATES*

People’s Kitchen Collective is known as a community dining project that intersects art, food, and social justice. The elders and ancestors gave us a new assignment when we saw what was possible when we combine our roots in the BPP Survival Programs and the future worlds of Octavia Butler’s Parable series. The powerful full length documentary film EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality was created.

We encourage you to collect your people and come join us out on our national tour so you can be challenged and inspired to RISK CHANGE together!

EARTH SEED invites us to envision and enact our collective future from a world awakening to its unraveling. Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, with filmmaker Fox Nakai, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March through June of 2023. We visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future.

Visit our website EVENTS page for confirmed cities and event details.

Want to host a screening with us? Click on the link in our bio and fill out our ACORN MAPPING SURVEY and we’ll be in touch.

[Image Description: Flyer with title of EARTH SEED NATIONAL FILM TOUR by People’s Kitchen Collective. There’s a two column list with dates and cities of the various EARTH SEED screenings.]

10/23/2025

We are so grateful for our time in Baltimore and New York! The EARTH SEED National Impact Tour screening brought out kindred friends and community who we were mutually changed and inspired by!

Thank you to The Peale in Baltimore and Word Up Community Bookshop in New York for providing such generative and aligned spaces for us to gather around the work of collective survival.

[Image Description: Select photos and video clips from the screenings at The Peale in Baltimore and Word Up Community Bookshop.]

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10/21/2025

Grateful to head to Seattle for our next stop on the EARTH SEED national impact tour! PKC friends and local community, please come join us for the screening of the film and an important discussion on the pressing call to action it presents. We can’t wait to see you!

🎥 COMMUNITY SCREENING
Friday, October 24, 2025 | 6-9pm
Washington Hall - Ballroom

🗒️ GO BAG & CARE POD WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 1-4pm
Washington Hall - Ballroom

Presented by PKC, Voices Rising and Sistah Scifi !

Click on the link 🔗in our bio or below to get tickets! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-seed-a-journey-of-radical-hospitality-film-screening-workshop-tickets-1740125314659

EARTH SEED invites us to envision and enact our collective future from a world awakening to its unraveling.

Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, with filmmaker Fox Nakai, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March through June of 2023.

We visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future.

Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parable series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice.

It does so by deepening our relationships with BIPOC activists, artists, educators, farmers, youth, and elders.

Want to host a screening with us? Please fill out our ACORN MAPPING SURVEY (link in bio) and we’ll be in touch!

[Image Description: Flyer with title of EARTH SEED: A PEOPLE’S JOURNEY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY
Film by Fox Nakai & Jocelyn Jackson VOICES RISING & PKC PRESENT COMMUNITY SCREENING
Friday, October 24, 2025 | 6-9pm Washington Hall - Ballroom and GO BAG & CARE POD WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 1-4pm Washington Hall - Ballroom - address 153 14th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122]

10/16/2025

Up next on the EARTH SEED National Impact Tour is Baltimore and New York! We’d love to see all our PKC friends and community in these cities to share the film and urgent call to action with you.

BALTIMORE - Friday, October 17th, 5:30-8:30pm @ The Peale

NEW YORK - Sunday, October 19th, 1-4pm @ Word Up Community Bookshop

Click on the links 🔗 in our bio to get tickets to the screenings.

EARTH SEED invites us to envision and enact our collective future from a world awakening to its unraveling.

Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, with filmmaker Fox Nakai, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March through June of 2023.

We visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future.

Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parable series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice.

It does so by deepening our relationships with BIPOC activists, artists, educators, farmers, youth, and elders.

Want to host a screening with us? Please fill out our ACORN MAPPING SURVEY (link in bio) and we’ll be in touch!

[Image Description: Flyer with title of EARTH SEED FILM SCREENING by People’s Kitchen Collective with the address and the time of the screening at The Peale in Baltimore. The second Flyer is for the New York screening with the title Screening: EARTH SEED (People’s Kitchen Collective) Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria, 2113 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10032, USA.]

10/14/2025

Feeling deep gratitude after this year’s Free Breakfast, honoring the Black Panther Party Survival Programs at Life is Living 2025 this past Saturday. It’s our favorite thing to serve the community at Life is Living! We’ve been showing up every year since 2012 and it’s incredible to now be the all over Executive Producer of the festival too!

We couldn’t have done the breakfast this year without the Black Panther Party, Lil’ Bobby Hutton/DeFremery Park, Understory, Reems, T’Chaka, Earthseed Farm, mak-‘amham, Emory Douglas, Red Bay Coffee, World Centric, Ayana Ivery Designs, our volunteers, PKC Crew Past, Present, & Future, and absolutely everyone that made this year so beautiful!
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10/09/2025

Our favorite event of the year is back - Life is Living Festival!

People’s Kitchen Collective’s Free Breakfast honoring the for Self Defense is back at Life is Living this Saturday October 11, 11AM-4PM at Lil Bobby Hutton Park with Free Breakfast being served from 11AM-12PM. All are welcome!

In Hella Solidarity ✊🏿 The menu shares the flavors and stories of our global family who need our collective action now more than ever. From Haiti to Palestine to Sudan to Congo. Let’s all get free!

Thank you to our collaborators

[Image Description: photos from people enjoying the free breakfast from previous LIL festivals and People’s Kitchen Collective’s volunteers.]

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09/26/2025

One of the questions we get a lot during our discussions after screenings is asking after our community partners. We deeply appreciate how audiences feel connected and invested in their work and their wellbeing.

Tierras Milperas is one of our community partners from the Central Coast section of our Journey. They were facing eviction and recovery from levee flooding during our filming. It felt like they embraced gathering in their garden to cook for one another and share our stories even more because of these heartaches. It was humbling to witness their fierce love for community, their radical hospitality.

This past Sunday they asked us to join them on their new plot of land teeming with a gorgeous abundance of corn, chilis, tomatillos, beans, marigolds, and more. This gathering was an invitation to use their fresh ingredients in some of our crew’s cultural recipes, to learn new stories from this cherished harvest.

Hai made a delicious chili Sa te from Hai’s Vietnamese family and Jocelyn made a flavorful ceebu jën from her roots in Western Africa and Tommy brought the hibiscus tea he loves to make. The Tierras Milperas crew blessed us with their fresh ground blue masa for the exquisite tortillas. The fire roasted salsa was the gift that kept on giving.

Such a good day! And another community partner, Bitter Cotyledons, joined us at the table as well. This is what EARTH SEED is all about. Why we dove into making this call to action film that we hope keeps creating a positive impact around the country throughout our national tour. Keep practicing life and love and survival together!

[Image Description: Select photos of Tierras Milperas garden and community.]
Milperas

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09/12/2025

REPOST • Join us on Sunday, September 14th Albuquerque at 12:30 PM for the last stop in our 3-city tour in NM! Tickets are still available! Link in the bio!

EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey Of Radical Hospitality - a film by Fox Nakai
September 14th
Guild Cinema at 12:30 PM
Documentary + Community Conversation

Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March - June
2023. They visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future.

Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the Global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice. It does so by deepening our relationships with BIPOC activists, artists, educators, farmers, youth and elders.

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We also would like to recognize that Covid is still in the world, and would like to remind our community that we respect their decision to wear masks in close quarters and other spaces.

09/11/2025

Repost • Join us in Taos on Saturday, September 13th at 1:30 PM at Olamina House for the second stop in our 3 city tour in NM! address on ticket link!

EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey Of Radical Hospitality - a film by Fox Nakai
September 13th
Olamina House at 1:30 PM
Documentary Screening + Community
Conversation
Tickets are available! Link and in the bio!

Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March - June
2023. They visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future.

Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the Global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice. It does so by deepening our relationships with BIPOC activists, artists, educators, farmers, youth and elders.

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http://www.peopleskitchencollective.com/

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