Council at MASSMoCA
Bayo joined CUHF members for a special Council gathering on April 27th at MASSMoCA in North Adams—the site of our CUHF office. Prompts for the Council session drew inspiration from Bayo himself, Dougald Hine, and Camille Dungy, prompting reflection on our experience and the nature of these times. Following a shared meal, CUHF members gathered for a closing Council in the James Turrell Skyspace, C.A.V.U.
Universe Speaks Council
In August, a special circle of visionaries came together at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, on the heels of the Vunja Seed Carnival—a three-day gathering that brought people together from and beyond Great Barrington, MA into sites of subversive possibility. The Council was convened by CUHF Founding Convener, Sarah Buie. CUHF Senior Fellow, Bayo Akomolafe, served as co-host.
Following the Council, participants continue to reflect on what is it that is taking place in society and on the planet… what brings us here, and what is being revealed in these threshold times?
MIT/CUHF Reunion
In September, Bayo joined the CUHF community at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a short talk and informal conversation with MIT Professors John Fernandez and Desiree Plata to consider: What lies outside/beyond or travels alongside our capacities to discern, to listen, to sense, to forge right relationships, and make good decisions?
The event was co-hosted by Curt Newton (MIT Steady Council host), ESI (Chris Rabe), Sarah Buie (CUHF) and Diana Chapman Walsh (CUHF Co-Founder and Life Member Emerita, MIT Corporation).
Launched in 2020, the CUHF Steady Council at MIT includes seventy faculty and staff members; it is co-sponsored with CUHF affiliates ESI (Environmental Solutions Initiative) and SHASS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences).
Clark University
In September, Bayo joined a small circle of long-time CUHF members and friends at Clark University. In a brief talk, Bayo offered a prompt from his trickster perspective—Let’s Not Save the World—interrogating the ethnography of practices that thrive behind that trope. The conversation continued over a shared meal, and was hosted by CUHF Founding Convener, Sarah Buie.
