Arte y Pasión Presents MINHA: An Offering for Peace

The project is a series of vignettes in an exploration in poetry, music, movement, and food, under the direction of Belén Maya and Tamara Adira. The project features Belén Maya, with Niurca Marquez, Jose Manuel Tejeda, Celia Corrales, La Memphi, Roberto Riggio, Kirsten Thompson, and Tamara Adira.

The mystics explained that just as divine blessings flow through the Holy Land, so too divine energy and blessings for all growing things flow through plants and fruits, which were revered by all peoples of the Holy Land and held sacred. The ancient inhabitants saw them not only evidence of the land’s great bounty, but evidence of the Creator’s love.

What if we all came to the table, and shared a meal? We might find that we are not so different.  The divine attributes of the seven species demonstrate what unifies us, as we build solidarity through the sharing of a meal and…