Bethel, Alaska Artist-in-Residency :: Kids in the Kitchen Hunger Initiative

KIDS IN THE KITCHEN is an innovative hunger initiative teaching children basic cooking skills and a love of delicious, healthy foods. The specific need to empower kids in this way is essential as sometimes even if there is food in the house, parents might be unavailable due to working late or unfortunately, due to alcoholism.

The DIVERSE PARTNERS OF KIDS IN THE KITCHEN :: Bethel Regional Public Health, WIC (Women, Infants and Children), Table of Grace Lutheran Church, Bethel Family Clinic, UAF Cooperative Extension, Bethel Seventh Day Adventist Church

Through a FireStarter Grant from the Alaska Synod, Jana Deiss, from Table of Grace Lutheran Church, was able to invite us to spend a week in Alaska to dwell in the story of Kids in the Kitchen and the community of Bethel, to promote the program after experiencing it first hand, to lend inspiration and energy to the kids and the whole community through music and interactive arts.

This gallery is from our evening with the kids in the program. You'll see them slicing eggs, enjoying their culinary feats and all of us singing together too! BE SURE TO READ THE CAPTIONS!!

This is the first of several galleries covering our week-long 'artist-in-community' in Bethel, connecting into the Bethel community, an interview at the local NPR affiliate (KYUK Radio), a stop at the local elementary school, the Open Hearts to Hunger Benefit Concert at the Cultural Center that raised $2,300 in Bethel and nearly $1,000 at another concert in Anchorage!