Opening of the Photo Exhibit “Alphabets and Breads: Sacred Designs in Bulgaria and Across Continents” by Nadezhda Savova

Thursday, May 17th, 2012, 7-9 pm
Bulgarian Consulate General, 121 East 62nd Street  New York, NY 10065
(212) 935-4646
Free
Hot bread and wine will be served

The exhibit will include hands-on demonstration of Bulgarian ritual bread designs as guests can join in the decoration and will all partake of the freshly-baked hot bread at the end of the exhibition and lecture.

For the occasion of the Bulgarian national holiday of the Slavic Enlighteners, St. Cyril and Methodius, fathers of the Glagolithic and later Cyrillic alphabets, Nadezhda Savova, visual anthropologist from Princeton University, is presenting with an accompanying lecture an exhibit of her professional photographs taken during research, work, and travels in various countries with focus on Bulgaria, exploring the sacred designs in the ritual bread decorations and how Glagolithic alphabetic symbols can still be traced in Bulgarian bread as Bulgaria has preserved perhaps the richest traditions of bread decorations in the world. The exhibit will also trace breads across five continents where Nadezhda has started programs to nurture social integration and community-building by organizing various people to come to make, bake, and break bread together weaving the Bread Houses Network (www.breadhousesnetwork.org).

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Nadezhda at nsavova@princeton.edu.

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PROSPHORA:

Make and learn through photos about the oldest unchanged sacred bread tradition in the world!

Prosphora-baking event, lecture, and discussion

Friday, May 4^th from 7pm to 9pm,

Emmaus House, www.emmaushouseharlem.org

160 W. 120th Street, New York

Nadezhda Savova and Julia Demaree, Director of the Emmaus House Orthodox Centerin Harlem, dedicated to serving the people in need, welcomed people of all ages and across Orthodox parishes around New York (the Bulgarian parish “St. Cyril and Methodius”; the Serbian parish “St. Sava”, the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation; the Mercy House Parish and St. Nicolas Russian Orthodox Parish; The Holy Trinity parish on Upper East Side; etc.)  as well as people from other denominations who had with interest in Orthodoxy to convene in the ambiance of Orthodox chants and with stories about Orthodox breads from different cultures, to learn to make the traditional Eastern Orthodox prosphora as well as beautifully decorated Eastern European ritual breads.

While we waited for the bread to rise, and then bake, we talked about various ways of making prosphora in the different traditions from Greece to Serbia and from Russia to Egypt, and Father Djokan from the Serbian Orthodox Church St. Sava in Manhattan gave wonderful insights into what is the Orthodox Eucharistic vision of the world. Some of the baked prosphora were taken to be brought forward for Sunday’s Divine Liturgy, thus symbolically uniting parishes across New York through the bread we will all have made together and that we will ultimately all share spiritually by becoming parts of the one Divine body in the breaking and partaking of the Eucharistic bread regardless of distance and place. It was a beautiful opportunity for sharing one table making one bread across ethnic and national lines but in one spirit.

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ONE TABLE CAFE

at Trinity Church, Princeton, NJ

Friday, April 20th, 5 – 8pm

Trinity Church at Princeton, recently featuring Bon Jovi’s Community Charity Restaurant (www.jbjsoulkitchen.org), invited Nadezhda Savova to give a talk about the journeys around the world that made the Bread Houses Network grow and keep growing, as Nadezhda also make bread with children and adults from the community from a variety of countries, from Guinea to India and Sweden. The unity around one table making one loaf that has always been the mission of the Bread Houses Network matched beautifully the vision of the One Table Cafe to host communal suppers once a month for people of all walks of life in the Princeton area.

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Easter Breads at the Bulgarian School ¨Hristo Botev,¨NY

Bulgarian Consulate, NY, April 6th, 2012

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        MOBILE ARCHITECTURES:

ARTS CENTERS, COMMUNAL BAKE HOUSES, and STREET FOOD 

AROUND THE WORLD
Lecture and hands-on bread-making with Nadezhda Savova

Wednesday, April 4th, 7-9 pm, The Princeton Colony, Princeton University

(Creative class team-taught by artist and ecologist Fritz Haeg and architect Daniel Wood)

While making Peruvian potato breads and Mexican corn breads (tortillas), students discussed the sense-based and art-inspired community development projects initiated by  Nadezhda. Nadezhda narrated about her experiences  researching community arts and foods (in particular bread) as tools for social development  part of a network of 12 community cultural centers called Bread Houses (www.breadhousesnetwork.org) she started and coordinates from Peru to Brazil, and from Bulgaria to South Africa.

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“Bread, Kitchen Music, and Tango”

MIMA Studio Brooklyn, www.mimabrooklyn.com, 124 Washington Avenue, Sunday, March 11th, 6-8pm:

In the tradition of the “Bread and Kitchen Music” method developed by the Bread Houses Network in partnership with MIMA, this event will mix the rhythms of kneading with the rhythms of dancing in couples, exploring metaphors and experiences of joining opposites in bread and dance as much as in friendship and love.

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First Firing of the newly-built oven at the “St.John of Kronshtadt” Homeless Shelter in Brighton Beach and official Launching of the Bread Houses Network Program in Brighton Beach

Sunday,March 11th, 1-2:30pm, Church of the Mother of God The Holy Chalice, http://www.svxram.org/english_church%202/index.html

Building the oven at “St. John of Kronshtadt” Shelter

January 24th, 2012

Built as volunteer donation by Feodor from Ukraine who has built ovens for the Pochaev Monastery

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“Latin American Easter Breads”

La Marqueta, 115th str and Park Ave, this Saturday, March 10th, 12-2pm

Children and adults from various ages and ethnic backgrounds from Harlem and beyond can once again around the mobile wood-fired oven at Breezy Hill Orchard’s location and NY Bread House Hub at La Marqueta in Harlem.  We all celebrated our Easter breads collective event following after our amazing turnout and excitement during the Christmas breads event in December 2011 when the Harlem Bread House Program was born as a nutritional education program in one of the largest “food deserts” in the United States! Already, we have had success in getting a few families excited about starting to make their own bread and children talk about making their own fresh food!

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SEE THE VIDEO: http://vimeo.com/mimamedia/bread-making

The Bread Houses Network and MIMA Brooklyn present

THEATER OF CRUMBS and SAMBA KITCHEN MUSIC

6-8:30pm, Sunday, February 26, 2012

MIMA Academy, 124 Washington Ave, Brooklyn NY

$5 fee (includes the bread-making materials and honey)

                                        Event hosted by Nadezhda Savova

Please bring your favorite kitchen utensils. All ages welcome. For more information, please email: nadezhda.savova@gmail.com

We will all make bread together from scratch around candle-lit tables, learning about bread’s different elements as symbols in various cultures and as metaphors for human relationships. While baking the bread, we will relive the birth of samba in Brazil from people playing kitchen utensils. We will i&