2025 | Common Reading Series: Feasting and Fasting in Religious Traditions with Kristine Zakarison

Join Kristine Zakarison for a talk about feasting and fasting rituals in different religions

Common Reading Series Talk
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00-1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

We enter into this world, among other things—hungry! Shortly before we draw our last breath, we begin our final journey by voluntarily abstaining from food and even water. In the course of our lives, regardless of ethnicity or class, we come together and share food in times of celebration and remembrance, and we may find ourselves forgoing food at times of trauma or sorrow. This rhythm of the human body, one of feasting at times, and other times fasting, has been ritualized in spiritual life in many religions, cultures, and historical moments. As the global community looks ahead to the start of three major religions’ observances­—Ramadan (February 28), Lent (March 4), and Passover (April 12)—come join us for this talk by Kristine Zakarison, a retired minister of the United Church of Christ.

About | Kristine Zakarison is a third-generation daughter of the Palouse, and as such has worn many “hats” in the community. The connecting threads are respect for this land, being of service to the community, and a desire to help others feel better. She is a retired minister of the United Church of Christ and has over 25 years of experience teaching yoga. She is the owner and a teacher of Nia and yoga at Aloft Studio in Pullman, as well as offering Yoga Therapy to individuals and groups.

Hosted by the WSU Pullman Common Reading Program and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.

Image | The Art of Food exhibition: Katherine Ace; Crop Circles 2 (detail); 2008; Oil, alkyd, mixed media on canvas; Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer