Dasha Kelly Hamilton - Makin' Cake

"Makin' Cake" is more than a performance-- it's an experience! Through powerful storytelling, Dasha Kelly Hamilton takes the stage to slice into history, unpacking race, class, and culture in a way that's as thought-provoking as it is engaging.

"America tried to come for me! She started shaping her identity around the same time she intensified her relationship with cake. She tried to come for us all.”

Dasha Kelly Hamilton tells the American story of exceptionalism, class and race by slicing into the history of cake.  From its inception, Makin’ Cake was originally commissioned by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center as a strategy to engage a community-wide conversation about race. The histories and basic ingredients of cake tell us a lot about access and privilege. Common folks sweetened their cakes with honey, applesauce and boiled raisins, for instance. The wealthy had pastry teams of slaves to spend days sweetening their cakes with real sugar.