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Western Terrace: Meet Me At The Table
Meet us at the table for an immersive dining experience. Curated by Afro Sistahs
Meet us at the table for an immersive dining experience. Multidisciplinary artists, Jeauneil Baptiste and Justine Youssef are your hosts, serving heart through food and artful storytelling.
What is the purpose of gathering but to fill the mind, heart and stomach? On the menu are dishes from the curated artists’ cultural backgrounds, attached to an experience or memory of home.
Introducing your hosts:
Brought to you by Afro Sistahs sub-collective; Chidiebube Uba, Mumbi Hinga & Safia Amadou have curated an evening to explore gathering as a living practice. In an era where we have become accustomed to individuality and isolation, pulling on our learned tradition of coming together is important now more than ever. Each coming from cultures where the sharing of food and stories are vital when gathering, the collective seeks to explore these generational practices through an immersive dining performance. They are rejoined by artists, Jeauneil Baptiste, and Justine Youssef.
When: Wednesday 4 December November, 6pm - 8pm
Location: Level 3, Western Terrace
Registration: Spaces are limited with some seats and standing room. Registration is essential As this is an outdoor venue, please dress accordingly. For access requirements please contact PHIVEtickets@cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au
Please note we can not cater to dietary requirements, restrictions or preferences.
The Western Terrace is a series of creative gatherings, performances and workshops taking place underneath the golden hour, as the sun sets, facing West, thinking West. Imagining the Western Terrace as an extension of their own homes, gardens and balconies, the series features artists, authors, filmmakers, musicians and community sharing domestic ritual collectively.
Image Credit: Lee Litumbe
Meet The Artists
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As program curator and emerging screen producer working across public arts programming and film, Chidiebube’s practice sits at the intersection of cultural and social discourse. Her work holds a keen focus on tangible audience interaction in program delivery and film exhibition.
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Mumbi Hinga is a storyteller, a builder, and a champion for diverse voices. As Director of Africa Film Fest Australia and co-founder of Afro Sistahs, she creates spaces where every story matters. Through Mumpreneurs Society, Mumbi empowers women entrepreneurs to step boldly into independence and success. Her mission is impact, connection, and lasting change.
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Safia Amadou is an emerging filmmaker and producer from Niger, now based in Australia. With a Master’s in business Law and Project Management from Senegal, she began her career at Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, a leading African art gallery. This experience strengthened her connection to her African heritage. In Australia, Safia’s work focuses on African identity and diaspora stories. She co-founded Afro Sistahs Collective, producing screen projects celebrating African culture, and co-directs Africa Film Fest Australia, which showcases diverse African stories. Her latest documentary, Belonging, explores her journey and aims to amplify African voices and foster community in Australian media.
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Jeauneil embodies the term “present-day contemporary artist”. An eclectic storytelling producer, his overall sound can be described as Alternative but it’s the disguised deeper meanings woven throughout every song, the musical maturity that is felt from intricate live-sounding arrangements built off of soulful chord progressions and purposeful collaborations that truly sets him apart. Influenced by Gospel, Jazz, RnB, Soul and Spoken Word, Jeauneil draws inspiration from multi-talented and cross-genre artists such as Thundercat, Freelance and Gregory Porter. Jeauneil loves to push the boundaries of whatever is considered ‘conventional’ but still respects the art of telling a story.
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Relationships to land and the endurance of ritual and belief are central to the work of Justine Youssef, whose auto-ethnographic films and installations reflect upon the impacts of displacement through forced migration, and consider our complicity in the reproduction of these conditions.