April - May 2024
The Kitchen Network delves into the politics of food as entertainment, exploring how it's become detached from the realities of its production and its role in climate collapse. Unfolding as the final reality TV food competition on Earth, this performance piece uses humour to examine the divide between online food cultures and their disconnection to wider issues of class, gender, and geography.
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Join us this Spring as Nourishment: a cyclical programme takes over Gallery One for a month – creating space for workshops, meals, events and film screenings. From broken global systems and climate breakdown to localised community responses and projects, this long-term cyclical programme delves into food justice, nourishment, growing and regenerative practices. Nourishment invites artists, activists, cooks, community organisers, gardeners, and local people to come together through a seasonal programme – creating space for imagining and implementing different food systems.
Read MoreThis Autumn, the Nourishment programme returns, with a focus on food cultures and stories, collective meals as spaces for conversation, and care for people and land as a foundation for healthy food.
Read More7 October - 9 December 2023
In Courses for Dis-Course(s), artist Roo Dhissou conjures up a space, for dining, eating, cooking and gathering that manifest in a sort of kitchen, dining room, café, restaurant, chill space. The project includes a series of exhibitions and dining events for British South Asian artists that will take place at GLOAM in Sheffield and Primary in Nottingham.
The simple routine act of sharing stories while sharing a meal. In our 2022 Autumn season of Nourishment, artist Janhavi Sharma discussed with participants online how the archival material of food inspires her work.
Read MoreThis Autumn, the Nourishment programme returns, with a focus on harvest, glut, waste, preservation and fermentation. Events include, pressing apples with Cider Club, fermentation classes for community cooks with Sean Roy Parker @fermentalhealth, mushroom foraging walk and talk with Suzy @Queer as Fungi and food histories and storytelling with Janhavi Sharma.
Read MoreThis four-session practical workshop with Sean-Roy Parker is a chance for those already working in kitchens within the Radford area and wider Nottingham to explore the art of fermentation. We will work with surplus bulk ingredients such as fruit and vegetables to make large batches of fermented, pickled and preserved food that will be distributed back out to local food projects.
Read More‘Picturing Food Justice’ is a participatory photography project let by artist Kelly O’Brien, that addresses issues around food justice, particularly in Nottingham’s NG7 postcode area. The project is supported through a collaboration between Off Centre Photography Festival, Himmah and Primary.
Read MoreAngela YT Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the inequity of climate change, through self-archiving, rethinking geographies and speculative fiction.
Read MoreThe spring season is here! Our spring programme is focused around sharing seeds and sharing knowledge.
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