Sneak Peek: Carlton Turner Podcast

Carlton Turner: So the dinner table is the greatest space for story in all of our lives, whether we think about it or not. That’s where we learn about each other. We learn about each other’s back story. We learn about the places that make us laugh and giggle, the places that make us cry and dig deeper into our souls for the wellspring of emotions that the stories bring out. That’s where we learn about our history. So for me, story and food kind of went hand in hand. So when we began to formulate the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, food and story were just natural connectors and they were the things that people can hold on to and grasp onto those concepts without having to have a degree in dance or in music or have studied abroad. The songs that are in our body and the poetry that’s in our body and the movement that’s in our body are all connected to the way that we live and the culture that we’re part of.