What makes us feel at home? A taste? Smell? Colour? Sound? What does it mean to be displaced in our own home or land?
Representing the heart of our homes, the kitchen is a space where some of the most meaningful, life-changing conversations take place. We want to replicate this experience and create a platform for dialogue between all members of our community: artists, writers, organisers, comrades and friends.
Many of us will have our stories of home, migration and displacement related to food and its preparation. Over the past months we’ve been shown Palestinians preparing meals with the ingredients they have to hand whilst under siege, narrating their culture and heritage, as acts of both survival and resistance. Weaponising food and using famine as a method of control in occupied territories, has been historically used by oppressors all over the world. We are witnessing it now in Gaza and Sudan. We want to acknowledge this, in solidarity and as artists and organisers.
In the hope of food bringing folks together in kitchen conversations, we invite organisers, comrades and friends to a brunch, offering a space to meet and find joy in conversation.
Join us in the simple act of sharing a meal and bring a dish you’ve made related to home to share together with comrades and to regroup. Register for the event HERE.
This is a free event. If you are able to donate, we would be grateful if you could support the following charities:
The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund via THIS donation link.
And/or
Sudanese charities HERE.
* As we’re sharing home-made dishes, please bring a full list of ingredients. Thank you!
About the Artists:
Sonia Uddin is a visual artist with a social, collaborative, interdisciplinary practice. Her current research engages with themes around social architecture, housing activism, resistance, migration and the voices that emerge during times of community struggle. Working across film, performance, collage and print, archives and social histories inform a documentary approach to storytelling. She is currently undertaking a commissioned project for Counterpoints Arts that explores: social housing, activism and migration; through archives, interviews and storytelling workshops around housing struggle.
