Dada Literary Café featuring Christine Stoddard, Sage Foster, Karla Jackson
Christine Stoddard is multidisciplinary artist named of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People. Her books include Desert Fox by the Sea, Heaven Is a Photograph, Water for the Cactus Woman, and other titles. She is known for her alluring experimental works, like the critically-acclaimed stage play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares," the arthouse feature film Sirena’s Gallery (streaming on Amazon Prime), performance acts Art Bitch and Queen Jaguar, and culture publication Quail Bell Magazine. She also hosts the MNN show "Badass Lady-Folk" and co-hosts the new comedy TV show "Don't Mind If I Don't" with Aaron Gold. Find out more at www.worldofchristinestoddard.com.
Sage Foster is an oral historian from Texas based in Brooklyn. Sage’s recent oral history work focuses on relationality, community art-making, time, and collective memory. She is currently working on a short documentary that explores her grandmother’s paintings as sites of memory and intimacy in her family. She is also the co-author of a series of children's books about gardening. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in oral history at Columbia University.
Karla Jackson-Brewer lives in NYC, and is an educator, an optimist, an integrative therapist, and a teacher of numerous spiritual traditions. An activist for social change in the anti-violence movement, she has spoken out against racial, gender and class inequality all her life. She designs anti-racism trainings that integrate cultural literacy,Buddhist practice, and deep internal work. Her written work has been published in Ikon Magazine, Women of Power Magazine, and Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity, Tricycle Magazine, and Afrikan Wisdom. She is an initiated priest in the West African system of Ifa, and a Lopön at Tara Mandala Retreat Center, in Pagosa Springs CO.