What's Happening CHAC Gallery Dec. 2020

December 1, 2020
Dear CHAC Community,
We are so excited to announce our holiday cooking class series that will happen this December “A Fiesta of Holiday Foods” with CHAC Gallery. While you may not see everyone you care about in person, you can still cook holiday foods together virtually. Come learn some new recipes, or different ways of doing ones you already know. Thank you to the community that came out for the “Set Yourself Frida” workshop in November and thank you to artist Karma Leigh for leading the workshop!

"A Fiesta of Foods" with CHAC~Dates and Virtual Link
December 5th, 12th and 19th from 11:00am-12:30pm, Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/95090538733
Register and get ingredients at www.chacgallery.org

Read below for learn more about upcoming events, the featured artist and a holiday recipe.

December 5th~Rosca De Reyes with Dylan Fajardo-Anstine

On January 6th in Mexico friends and family gather to celebrate Epiphany (Dia de los Reyes/ Day of the Three Wise Men). Children leave out their shoes during the night to receive their gifts from the Three Wise Men. Rosca de Reyes is wreath shaped bread that is a part of the Epiphany Celebrations. Rosca de Reye will be taught by Denver Native Dylan Fajardo-Anstine. In west Denver her great auntie taught her how to cook at the age of 8. This began her love for the kitchen and culinary arts. Dylan has studied at Instituto Universitario de Oaxaca, in Mexico. There she learned traditional Oaxacan cuisine. Later she worked in a three-Michelin star restaurant in Spain. El Cellar De Can Roca, refining her skills further.

December 12th~Pozole Rojo de Champiñones/Red Pozole with Mushrooms with Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala and Alonzo Barron

Monserrat has learned many things from the mujeres in her family, one of the most sacred for her is cooking. Monserrat works full time in the outdoor industry, creating spaces for Black, Indigenous, People of Color. When she’s not rock climbing or taking care of her flock, you can find her in the kitchen channeling her mami, abuelitas, and tias. Alonzo finds his purpose in learning, sharing and exchanging restorative earth practices, carrying on the teachings of those who came before us to exist in symbiosis with all that we are connected to through land based enseñanzas (teachings). Alonzo is fascinated with the fun-gi queendom and will be exchanging valuable knowledge about hongitos, “los niños sagrados.” Monserrat’s maternal abuelita, Señora Lucha, has gifted her knowledge around our relationships to sacred medicines such as our foods and yerbas. One of her favorite recipes is her abuelita’s pozole de champiñones, which uses no animal products. Growing up as a working class family in the heart of Iztapalapa, Abuelita Lucha has worked with the resources available to her and her family. This pozole receta (recipe) will not only offer a nutritious non-meat alternative, but will also highlight the medicine of this pozolli (pozole) through its fundamental ingredients: cintli (corn) and teonanacatl (mushrooms). Incorporating sacred knowledge from their Mexica teachings, Monserrat & Alonzo will inspire your connection to your food.

December 19th~Bison Posole

Nathen grew up in Denver's Historic Baker neighborhood and graduated from West High School. His cooking experience includes anything from bison heart chili to fried alligator tail to mountain lion carnitas. Responsibly sourcing food for his family and carrying on culinary heritage is a driving passion. What our ancestors had to do out of necessity has evolved into nutritious and delicious traditions. Nathen seeks out the legacy the ancestors left us in cooking from scratch, home canning, drying meat into carne seca, cast iron cooking, and hunting to pass on to his two daughters. Nathen will be demonstrating how to make bison pozole and discussing the ethics of sourcing meat. The workshop will review cuts of meat and their uses and how to use various game meats.

Featured CHAC Artist Rebecca Rozales

Rebecca V. Rozales was born in Denver, Co. She studied Art in residences in Mexico City, Mexico and completed her BFA at Metropolitan State College. Rebecca has worked as an Artist for over twenty-five years and has helped develop curriculum and teach fine arts and crafts, including pottery, sculpture, batik and puppetry to children ages 6-18. She has completed independent professional art work on an individual contract basis. Her unique work has graced dozens of exhibits and remains in private collections internationally.
Blocks prints by Rebecca Rozales
1. Las Trabajadores/The Workers
2. The Citadel
3. The Thinker
4. COEXIST~ Hope, Joy Peace~ Christmas Card