The Artisan’s Table: Food, Fiber & Freedom

The Artisan’s Table is a workshop series for educators, artists, and community members to explore storytelling, identity, and justice through hands-on artmaking. Each gathering centers themes like food, home, and memory, creating space for creative practice as a form of reflection, connection, and resistance.

 

REALSOUL wants to work with you!

We are seeking one (1) Bay Area performance artist who identifies as a first generation refugee!

We especially encourage applications from artists with cultural or ancestral ties to South America, Africa, and the Middle East.

 
 

  • Distance Between: Stories of Refuge, Return, and Remembering is a multidisciplinary education and performance project that brings refugee narratives into SFUSD public school classrooms.

  • Selected artists will create a 5-10 minute original performance piece (dance, spoken word, music, theater, etc.) rooted in their lived or inherited story of displacement. Each artist will:

    • Receive a $10,000 commission

    • Earn $1,500 in additional honoraria for 2 school performances

    • Be reimbursed up to $1,000 for rehearsal or production costs

    • Collaborate with a curriculum developer to co-create a lesson plan

    • Participate in a professional development workshop and a filmed recording session'

    Performances and materials will be shared with educators through SFUSD and featured in curriculum aligned with state standards. No teaching experience need to apply.

  • This is a multi-phase project running from Fall 2025 through Spring 2027, with flexible scheduling. Most artist deliverables will take place between late 2025 and early 2027.

  • Please contact Katie, the Project Manager, at katie@realsoul.us about your interest, background, and sample of your work.

 
 

Past Workshop Archives

  • Embroidery for Change

    Held at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (April 2024)

    Partnered with the Hamesha Project and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, educators discovered the radical history of South Asian embroidery and explored various ways of bringing these techniques into their own classrooms.

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