We are Local Food Now–a farm-to-school cooperative of North Fork Valley bakers, farmers, ranchers, teachers, students, and community members. Located in the fertile valley of Paonia, Colorado, we offer nutritional education to support the health of our growing young people…
Published in: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Abstract In the tradition of hakawatis (Arab storytellers) and the maggid (Jewish storytellers), I intend to ignite social-justice dialogue, ecological consciousness, and collective action. How can we transform habitual behaviors of entitlement and…
December 4, 2023 Hosted by the Jewish Climate Action Network Program in Massachusetts, I presented with Thea Iberall, Mirele Goldsmith, Rabbi Katy Z. Allen, and Judith Black as the emcee.
Watch a video of the lecture below: How can we practice radical climate justice as we raise our children in a world dominated by petroleum-pharmaceutical hegemonies? Parenting in the 21st century represents perhaps one of the most contradictory positions…
August 14-18, 2023 Chicago, IL I will be presenting five different programs. Individual Lecture “What is White? Can a Sephardi, Mizrahi, or Muslim-Arab be a ‘Real’ POC?” Presenting on “The Dichotomy of Identity” panel Aug. 16, 8-9:30am with Dr. Davide…
Association of the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) in collaboration with the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) July 9-12, 2023 Portland, OR Cara’s presentation: “Radical Accountability through Creative-Waste Culture” How can we shift our epidemic of individualism from consumer…
Summary: Fall 2022 Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff will investigate the Jewish commitment to a personal and collective cultural, economic, and agricultural pause (release or letting go). In response to the rapidly escalating climate crisis, Alhadeff’s interactive presentation shares the values…
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This interview is Part II following: NPR: Interview on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa with Khalil Bendib: Pacifica Radio, KPFA While my first interview with political cartoonist Khalil Bendib focused on Zazu Dreams, this conversation will…
During the Symposium on Social Anarchism and Collective Responsibility at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, I was interviewed by Emma Moorman from NeuroEpigenEthics for my presentation–“Epigenetic Insurgencies: Eco-Justice Anarchy as Collective Imperative” Organizer: University of Antwerp, NeuroEpigenEthics …
Transmutations, Transgressions Promiscuous Crossings: Transforming Climate Chaos through the Sephardic Jewish Body Organizer: The International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Video Lecture:
April 4th, 2:00pm PST University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Micaela Amateau Amato’s illustrations from Zazu Dreams projected during first break; Micaela Amateau Amato‘s art projected during 2nd break; my projected photography on display during third break Ladino (the language of my maternal and paternal family)…
March 25, 10-10:15am EST University of Antwerp, Belgium My projected photographs will offer a visual aesthetic dimension of surrealism within social anarchism. See the Programme for Saturday→ See also NeuroEpigenEthics→
March 25, 11am EST University of Antwerp, Belgium My interview with Emma Moormann, PhD researcher at NeuroEpigenEthics, will highlight creative-collective risk taking. I will challenge Western civilization’s taken-for-granted convenience-culture standard of living and explore social anarchism in the context of…
March 24th Brown University As a guest lecturer for Heather Bhandari’s ART/WORK class, I will offer an interactive presentation focusing on vulnerability, integrity, conformity, and compliance–not just as individual artists, but co-creating a culture of creativity in the face of digital-age tyrannies. …
March 8th Bishop’s University, Montreal As a guest lecturer for Shoshannah Bryn Square Jones’ Literature and the Environment class, I will offer an interactive presentation focusing on my eco-action model: S.O.U.L. (Shared Opportunity Used Local) and daily eco-ethics from my creative non-fiction book: Zazu Dreams.
Friday, March 24 at 11am PST on Pacifica Public Radio This interview is Part II following: NPR: Interview on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa with Khalil Bendib: Pacifica Radio, KPFA While my first interview with political cartoonist…
I conclude my essay series for Mother Pelican 2022 with a confession. I have reached an impasse, a seemingly untraversable territory bordered by child-rearing landmines—a misstep may suck me into parental-failure quicksand. I thought I “did the right thing:”… READ MORE…
Surrealism as a practice for everyday life…in a visceral-corporeal /public-private/ eco-justice context. Chicago Art Institute
Summary: In Somali Soonoqo means to become / to return. It is believed that you cannot become something that did not exist and you cannot return without becoming. It’s a simultaneous act of unfolding and returning to ourselves. January 13th,…
Published in: Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters, Ed. Lucy Weir, Palgrave Macmiilan, 2023 Summary: “I think the big crisis of our times is that our minds have been manipulated to give power to…
9-11am at the Denver Convention Center Comparative Studies in Religion Unit Theme: Querying Eco-Aesthetics Monday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Convention Center-304 (Street Level) Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Presiding Especially for those who are invested in contemporary issues…
Petroleum parenting, what I identify as the decisions parents make that overwhelmingly contribute to both environmental destruction and body-phobic institutional practices, reifies the status-quo and our myopic capacity to engage beyond our shame-based, accumulationist individualism. In our petroleum-pharmaceutical-addicted cyber-world, our…
By entering one’s consciousness through the mediated vehicle of storytelling, Alhadeff aims to surprise her audience—evoking a reconsideration of how the consequences of one’s daily choices impacts global human rights. Her story’s characters explore unfamiliar geographical and metaphysical terrain…
Summary: Cara Judea Alhadeff is really difficult and easy to put in a box..Free is the best word. Cara came into my consciousness while studying nude yoga.
Summary: In this two-part conversation, Zuzman talks with Cara Judea Alhadeff—author, most recently, of Zazu Dreams—about the Ecozoic Era, biocentrism, communion with all beings, social permaculture, friction as a source of fertility, the unnatural aspects of natural building, reimagining waste,…
Summary: Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff is a scholar/activist/artist/mother whose work engages feminist embodied theory with an emphasis on the ecological failures of our current economic system relating to its foundation in colonialism.
American-Ladino author, photographer, and performance artist Cara Judea Alhadeff speaks about her startlingly original book, Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle – A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene, an environmental tale which also takes up themes…
Kaylan Buteyn interviews panel at Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency with Laura Deutch, Cara Judea Alhadeff & Carolina Porras on Artist Mothers, Art as Life, Not a Job.
Priscilla Atropine interviews Cara Judea Alhadeff: Changing the Climate
Kate Redmond interviews Paonia author Cara Judea Alhadeff about her book “Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle.” LISTEN NOW:
In preparation for the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado, Boulder multi-media, musical and cultural performance, Zazu Dreams: A Declaration of Interdependence, A Love Story. LISTEN NOW:
Earthaven Ecovillage and Get Off The Grid Festival: http://www.zazudreams.com/community-events/ Watch the Video Lecture
Summary: During the triple pandemic of climate crisis, racism / ethnic cleansing, and covid-19 we have become increasingly aware of the world that does not work for the majority of the planet. We long for inspiration and grounded strategies which…
Summary: The purpose of this environmental-justice performance is to generate cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, interfaith dialogue and Jewish-themed action. Reclaiming ancient Judaic spiritual-pharmacopeias, agricultural and architectural environmental engineering practices can be one resolution for systemic oppressions in our triple pandemic of racism,…
Summary: Presented for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Nearly Carbon Neutral Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency, UC Santa Barbara, 2020 Climate Justice Now: Transforming the Anthropocene into The Ecozoic Era asks: How can…
Summary: We must practice caution during our transition from our global petroculture, not based on the motivation, but on the underlying false assumptions and strategies that perceived sustainability agendas offer. At this juncture of geopolitical, ecological, social, and corporeal catastrophes,…
Summary: Presented at Peace Education: Security, Stability, Sustainability at Assam Don Bosco University, India, 2022 Watch the Video Lecture
Summary: Through historical Sephardic storytelling, Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff presents contemporary interconnections between MLK Jr. and the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat, “the new year for trees.” Presented as a Power Through Partnership Program. In partnership with The Big…
Summary: “Greenwashing and Environmental Racism in the Renewable Energy Revolution” is a video lecture from my chapter in the book Shifting Climates-Shifting Peoples, Dr. Miguel De La Torre, editor. The video-lecture that is shot outside our repurposed school-bus tiny home…
Summary: Presented at Peace Education: Security, Stability, Sustainability at Assam Don Bosco University, India, 2022 Watch the Video Lecture
Summary: This video was made for Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality international conference: Ecological Spiritualities, April, 2022. It was the Racial Justice Invocation for Ammud Jews of Color Torah Academy’s 3rd Anniversary Gala February, 2022. Watch…
Summary: For Ecological Spiritualities Inaugural International Conference 2022, Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality Published in: The excerpts come from my interviews with National Public Radio: KPFA, Pacifica Radio KGNU KVNF Local Fauna AshevilleFM Podcast interviews:…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: ”The future enters into us in this way in order to transform itself in us long before it happens.” — Rainer Maria Rilke For my Mother Pelican…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: Dedicated to Greg Jacobs aka SHKG Humpty Hump “April is the cruellest month, / breeding lilacs out of the dead land, / mixing memory and desire, /…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: “Realizing the potential of women is the single most important pathway to planetary regeneration.”—Paul Hawken Yes, but how? Many environmental activists claim that empowering women through education is key…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: For February’s Mother Pelican installment, we take a detour from our exploration of Big Tech and Big Telecom exploitation. Corporations market Valentine’s Day as yet again another…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: “Electricity is an element that is more intimate to us than the air we breathe.”—Abbé Nollet, 1746 “The relative divergence of my bodily senses….indicates that this body…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: “There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users:’ illegal drugs and software.” — Edward Tufte We can no longer ignore the intricate interconnections between manufactured consent…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: “Our house is on fire…I want you to panic.”—Greta Thunberg’s speech at the 2019 World Economic Forum The fires, dear Reader, have caught up with us. As…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2022 Summary: As activist-educators, we must scrutinize extractive-capitalist interrelationships among slowwashing (including stress reduction technology that actually increases cortisol production), greenwashing (including fraudulent “corporate social responsibility” – CSR) and whitewashing “a coordinated attempt to…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: “We fear that when we stop, even for a moment, the sheer enormity of our lives will overwhelm us. Our outspoken and unspoken fears, they speed up…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: The terrestrial has been exiled from the earth.—Sajay Samuel’s review of Zazu Dreams We woke in the Safeway parking lot, ash falling from the sky. The gated…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: “You cannot regulate an abomination. You have got to stop it.”— Wendell Berry Driving across the United States in our over-heating converted eco-art school bus tiny home—painted…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: The mold had not only seeped into the fibers of our clothes, sheets, pillows, it infiltrated the hinges of my eyeglass frames, the space between the bed…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: Following a determined, iridescent dung beetle, my previous four-part Mother Pelican series ended with: “And then we, too, shift our path…” I hadn’t realized how dramatically our lives…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: Creative-Waste Living as Biophilia Rob (Wild Menagerie), Zazu, and I integrate the utilitarian with the sacred. This is our tikkun—our particular task of repair. Our actions model…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: Practicing Non-Violence through Creative-Waste Living I had met Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, at Peaceweavers while Zazu and I were living at EcoVillage Ithaca. His book, Be…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: I have always attempted to live my ethics to the utmost. During my book launch for Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-scene, author Jill Nagle, introduced me…
Published in: Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021 Summary: Migration In search of a home that could support my ardent values for my son’s education, Zazu and I had been living in off-grid intentional communities from…
Published in: Communities Magazine, Summer 2021 issue, Ecological Culture Summary: A devotion to repurposing objects, to constructing co-beneficial, regenerative infrastructural support systems, is an antidote to industrialized convenience culture…
Published in: Shifting Climate – Shifting People, Ed. Miguel De LaTorre, Pilgrim Press, 2022 Summary: Alhadeff’s chapter examines the insidious manifestations of greenwashing and environmental racism in the context of humanitarian imperialism—the ways in which our taken-for-granted standard of…
Published in: Socioscapes: International Journal of Societies, Politics, and Cultures; Gender and Sexualities Studies in Difficult Times: Uncertain Presents, Coalitional Futures, 2022 Summary: We have confused the apocalypse with Armageddon. Unlike Armageddon, a decisive battle between good (humankind) and…
Published in: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, issue 41.3, The University of Nebraska Press, 2021 Summary: My color photography is a theater of psychological and physical transformations that reveal a luminescent excess. This excess combines both the civilized…
