good luck, philadelphia fringe festival, Philadelphia, PA (2022)
Co-Creator/Performer
A community ritual, immersive outdoor performance, and act of radical hospitality in the form of a 5-course, seasonal, farm-to-table meal sourced entirely from local biodynamic farms, prepared by the artists for strangers and loved ones in the woods of Bartram’s Garden—a public park and horticultural center in West Philadelphia. The project was a response to the hunger to rebuild worlds in the time of social, spiritual, economic, racial, health, and ecological crises that COVID-19 had accelerated. Ushering in the Equinox and its late harvest, as well as the head of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) we marked the ways we had centered distance while also imagining futures of intimacy.
Created by Devyn Lorelei Mañibo & Jack Isaac Pryor in collaboration with Asher Kurtz Smith. Live music for tin whistle and melodica composed and performed by Smith. Produced by FringeArts as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
GOOD LUCK MENU
Friday, 23 September 2022
i.
Beet pickled eggs
with pink lemon and parsley goat milk yogurt
ii.
Cold green bean salad
with hickory nuts and dill
iii.
Savory pumpkin pie
with lemongrass, young ginger, and
an all butter pâté brisée
iv.
Roasted sweet red pepper and cucumber gazpacho
served with sourdough, confit garlic, roasted grapes,
and prosciutto
v.
Plum cake with yuzu leaf, lemon verbena,
and honey cream
Wine
Flavia Taille | Frappato Perricone | Sicily (‘20)
Biokult Österrich | Naken | Austria (‘21)
Saturday, 24 September 2022
i.
Beet pickled eggs
with pink lemon and parsley goat milk yogurt
ii.
Cabbage and apple salad
with charred nectarines and
pink lemon vinaigrette
iii.
Oyster mushroom, chard, and sweet corn galette, and
an all butter pâté brisée
iv.
Pawpaw gazpacho served with sourdough, confit
garlic, frizzled leeks, and smoked trout
v.
Fig and corn cake
with honey and cardamom butter
Wine
¡No es Pituko! | Chardonnay | Chile (‘21)
Nobis | Love and Grapes | France (‘20)
Devyn harvests fresh paw paw fruit from the woods surrounding the performance site and offers it to the audience/guests to share. Photo credit: Ashley Hernandez.
Beet pickled eggs with pink lemon and parley goat milk yogurt. Photo credit: Frank Sung.
Cabbage and apple salad with charred nectarines and pink lemon vinaigrette. Photo credit: Ashley Hernandez.
Guest Frank Sung holds a slice of savory pumpkin pie with lemongrass, young ginger, and an all butter pâté brisée. Photo credit: Frank Sung.
(Foreground) Community altar. (Background) Guests Thomasin Parnes, Irit Reinheimer, and Rebecca Alvarez feast. Photo credit: Ashley Hernandez.