What is the first taste you can remember? Who is allowed to gather? Who is allowed to rest? These are just some of the questions artist Adele Kenworthy will explore with the project CUT FRUIT during the National Museum of Asian Art’s Smithsonian Solstice celebration.

Rest, gather, and enjoy the sweet flavors of fruit from the early afternoon through the golden hour of the 2024 summer solstice. While you enjoy cut fruit from Adele Kenworthy’s stand, listen to storytelling, poetry, and future telling by various artists. Visit food trucks outside the museum on Jefferson Ave. and Independence Ave. from 6 to 9 p.m. The museum store will stay open until 10 p.m., and the galleries will stay open until midnight!

View the full day's schedule and register in advance. Registration in advance is recommended for planning purposes but not required. Some activities have a limited capacity, with entry on a first come, first served basis.

Don't miss our solstice-related family fun activities earlier in the day.

Visit the Smithsonian Solstice Saturday event page for more details.

About CUT FRUIT
CUT FRUIT is a site-specific performance and an expression of lived experience that re-remembers gestures and rituals of care. This performance examines the labor—both hypervisible and invisible—embodied in the AAPI woman in our post-pandemic existence. In many Asian/Asian American cultures, fruit is shared as an act of love in abundance, often present at a child’s first birthday celebration in Korea, called a doljanchi; given in oversized boxes as housewarming gifts; and placed at altars for even our ancestors to enjoy.

This project is the third and final installment of the We Should Talk series, created by Philippa Pham Hughes, Adele Yiseol Kenworthy, and Xena Ni. We Should Talk received federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and from the American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.