Food Futures Dream Lab: Rot & Renewal
To create a world beyond cycles of extraction and exploitation—we first have to envision it.
Join us for a Food Futures Dream Lab as we harness the transformative power of dreaming with community to envision a future shaped by mutual care and belonging with the land, waters, and people that nourish us.
During this free and open-to-the public 90-minute virtual session, we’ll be listening to “Rot & Renewal”—an episode of Food Culture Collective’s food sovereignty podcast, Radical Nourishment—to spark our imaginations as we immerse in a guided visioning exercise. Together, we’ll get specific on the future we want to create, and grow our collective capacity to bring these dreams into reality.
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Around the Table: Unearthing Apocalypse
How might we create a culture of care for the lands, waters and peoples who nourish us by embracing the wisdom revealed by the apocalypse? Join Native Hawaiian Zen Priest and movement strategist Norma Wong, and Boricuir food justice organizer, writer, farmer and founder of Cuir Kitchen Brigade, Lucecita Cruz in conversation with facilitator, Yana Gilbuena-Bilbau, an ancestrally-taught chef, and writer, around the virtual table as we unearth practices to compost empire and seed more liberatory, thriving futures.
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Spring Immersion: Play as Portal
Our Spring Immersion explores play as a portal to joy and connection to the earth, and one another. Guided by a team of trained facilitators, together we will explore and try on how we can play our way to collective liberation.
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Story Power Place: A Facilitation Training on the Liberatory Power of Story
This spring, Food Culture Collective invites you to join the story facilitation course Story, Power, Place, in which participants will learn to engage storytelling as a transformative practice in liberatory power. The course develops the skills for generous listening and consent; to cultivate deep and transformative connections through story; narrative strategies for collective liberation; and how to support liberatory community power in the places we call home.
Applications due by April 7.
To learn more and apply to join the training please visit foodculture.org/story-power-place
Around the Table: Play as Portal
Join founder of Black Food Fridays & community organizer, KJ Kearney, and Creator of Cattails Comix & Improv Facilitator, Kai Tzeng, around the virtual table to dig into play as a portal to joy and connection to the earth and one another. Together we’ll ask, how might we feed our capacity to embrace radical imagination, and play our way to collective liberation?
All of our Around the Table virtual events are free and open to the public.
Around the Table: Reweaving Belonging
Join disability justice advocate, Kristie Cabrera, and Indigenous ethnobotanist Dr. Enrique Salmón around the virtual table on December 8th, to unearth ways we can grow a food culture that centers accessibility and leaps courageously into the vibrant potential of the “gray spaces” that lie beyond extractive relationships to food and land.
Fall Immersion: Seeding Collective Care
Ready to move from conversation into action? Hungry to immerse yourself in the culture you long for? Join a virtual community of practice to creatively explore your relationships to land, food, and belonging through story, art, and experiential learning.
This fall, we’ll explore care and consent as foundational practices of a liberatory food culture. Guided by a team of trained facilitators, together we will explore embodied experiences of care and consent around the ways we grow, cook, and gather around food.
Around the Table: Seeding Collective Care
How do we seed deeper, more secure connections to the lands, waters and people that nourish us through a culture of collective care?
Join Food As Healing co-founder, grower, anti-oppression facilitator, storyteller, & organizer, shane bernardo, and Resonance Network co-director, Black feminist cultural worker, writer, artist, & ancestral healer, Alexis Flanagan, to claim care as a powerful, world-shaping act, and unearth how we might practice collective care in a world structured for hyper-individualism.
Nourishing Future Ancestors Immersion: Session 4 of 4
Ready to move from conversation into action? Hungry to immerse yourself in the culture you long for? Our summer Immersion will explore what it means to nurture a liberatory relationship to food rooted in care for ourselves and our future descendants.
Guided by a team of trained facilitators, together we will explore how the ways we grow, cook, and gather around food can offer us a path towards deep nourishment and radical transformation across generations, and how embracing our roles as future ancestors help us to cultivate a boldly reimagined food culture right now.
Nourishing Future Ancestors Immersion: Session 3 of 4
Ready to move from conversation into action? Hungry to immerse yourself in the culture you long for? Our summer Immersion will explore what it means to nurture a liberatory relationship to food rooted in care for ourselves and our future descendants.
Guided by a team of trained facilitators, together we will explore how the ways we grow, cook, and gather around food can offer us a path towards deep nourishment and radical transformation across generations, and how embracing our roles as future ancestors help us to cultivate a boldly reimagined food culture right now.
Nourishing Future Ancestors Immersion: Session 2 of 4
Ready to move from conversation into action? Hungry to immerse yourself in the culture you long for? Our summer Immersion will explore what it means to nurture a liberatory relationship to food rooted in care for ourselves and our future descendants.
Guided by a team of trained facilitators, together we will explore how the ways we grow, cook, and gather around food can offer us a path towards deep nourishment and radical transformation across generations, and how embracing our roles as future ancestors help us to cultivate a boldly reimagined food culture right now.
Nourishing Future Ancestors Immersion: Session 1 of 4
Ready to move from conversation into action? Hungry to immerse yourself in the culture you long for? Our summer Immersion will explore what it means to nurture a liberatory relationship to food rooted in care for ourselves and our future descendants.
Guided by a team of trained facilitators, together we will explore how the ways we grow, cook, and gather around food can offer us a path towards deep nourishment and radical transformation across generations, and how embracing our roles as future ancestors help us to cultivate a boldly reimagined food culture right now.
Around the Table: Nourishing Future Ancestors
Join Black Feast founder, multi-media artist & chef, Salimatu Amabebe, and Indigenous food activist, chef & urban farmer, Kirsten Kirby-Shoote, Around the Table for a conversation on nurturing a liberatory relationship to food rooted in care for ourselves and our future descendants.