The relationship between narrative and practice is interwoven. The stories we inherit, the stories we tell ourselves easily inform and become the behaviors and experiences that we have. When it comes to developing new relationships with economics and labor, we're often required to examine and reframe our relationship with those stories before we can imagine and adopt new practices. For this workshop, we will primarily focus on the intergenerational stories inherited from our parents - namely their commitment, effort and sacrifice towards providing for us - in order to better understand how we view our obligation to provide for ourselves and the generations we are raising up.
Join us for an interactive session with Kenny Andejeski where we will emerge personal connections with work in our current exhibition, Hand to Mouth, before receiving a brief introduction to community-based alternative economic practices that we will then seek to incorporate into our own lives.
Kenny Andejeski is curiously committed to better understanding everything that unites, divides and compels us to participate in this social experiment called life. He sees the world through an entrepreneurial lens that is focused on connecting people with ideas, resources, places, and one another to foster the community required to effectively address the inequities, challenges and opportunities of our time. Kenny currently runs why [here] matters, a social enterprise that supports clients in building community to foster social cohesion, belonging and civic health towards the practice of everyday democracy at a national, regional and local scale.
Born and raised in the Midwest, Kenny has visited all 50 states and 35+ countries across six continents, but currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where most of his place-based work is focused on ecosystem & capacity building throughout the Southeast and Appalachia. In his free time, he plays ultimate frisbee, deepens his relationship with nature, and dances through museum exhibits and public art installations.