Public Programming
LANDINGS: SOWERS ON SCREEN
In April 2026, we opened Creative Campus to center stories that explore relationships to land as sources of survival, resistance and liberation with Brittany Shyne’s SEEDS (2025), EARTH SEED (2024) from People’s Kitchen Collective and a special screening of an episode from QUEEN SUGAR by TV series creator Ava DuVernay. Plus, we partnered with Prosperity Market to host their mobile farmers market on wheels at ARRAY. Attendees were invited to shop with purpose and directly support the values they believe in by buying products and produce from independently owned brands and local growers.
Film Line-up
QUEEN SUGAR (2016-2022)
Series Creator: Ava DuVernay
Based on the book by Natalie Baszile, and created for TV by Ava DuVernay, groundbreaking series “Queen Sugar” tells the story of the estranged Bordelon siblings in Louisiana. Across seven seasons, directed entirely by women, we see the siblings and their family learn to put their complicated lives aside so that they can come together to run the clan’s struggling sugar cane farm.
EARTH SEED (2024)
Co-Directed by Fox Nakai and Jocelyn Jackson for People’s Kitchen Collective
Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March – June 2023. The traveling group visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future. Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice.
SEEDS (2025)
Directed by Brittany Shyne
Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, SEEDS is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys and struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and owning land. Through these inter-generational stories, we see the cycles of inequity and embedded racism that persist to this present day, and the signs of hope and renewal with younger generations of farmers.
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