Join SAMASAMA and Sustainable Culture Lab for a conversation on Philosophy, Art & Politics featuring SCL founder Barrett Holmes Pitner and Seda Nak of Foreign National.

Speaker Bios:

Barrett Holmes Pitner is a philosopher, writer, journalist, and filmmaker focusing on race, culture and politics. As the founder of the Sustainable Culture Lab, his work focuses on combatting ethnocide and creating Eǔtopian (not utopian) practices. In 2018, he began production on his first feature-length documentary Altars: A Cross-Cultural Day of the Dead. This film builds upon his friendships and connections within America’s Latino/a community, experiences as a Black man in America, journalistic work, and background in filmmaking.

Seda Nak is a co-founder of Foreign National hospitality group, creating unique, cultural experiences through food. Under Foreign National, she is the creator and owner of specialty retail and community brick-and-mortars, Hometown and Shopkeepers. Seda is also a co-creator of The Color Curtain Project, an artist book and culinary project influenced by Richard Wright’s The Color Curtain, A Report on the Bandung Conference, in 1955. The Color Curtain Project reflects on the meaning of Afro-Asian solidarity and community.

Thank you to our partner:

The Sustainable Culture Lab (SCL) is a cultural think tank committed to combatting and raising awareness of ethnocide—the killing of culture, while keeping the people —and the fostering of Eǔtopian spaces. Their work focuses on elevating the cultural discourse by including the language of Eǔtopia (pronounced: ev-topia) and ethnocide into their conversations on racial equity, social justice, environmentalism, and more. They do this through our written and published work, art, activism, podcasts, events, products, consulting, trainings, and reports.