Created by artist kumari giles, the ART x Food Justice Series brings folks together over food, dialogue and artistic activations. Gatherings are rooted in the medicine of sharing a meal that honours local produce and our connection to land. Bringing together food justice, collective care, storytelling, and community arts, this series uplifts QTBIPOC ways of knowing and being.
Meals are crafted by the artist featuring seasonal produce while catering to top 10 allergies and common dietary needs. Menu details are curated thematically alongside artist activations.
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Recent Events
August 2023 / Harvest Gathering – Dinner and Dreaming
Inspired by Octavia Butler’s Parables and movements towards an inch-wide and mile-deep vs. a mile-wide and inch-deep inquiry. This gathering brought together a late summer harvest meal with dream spell casting on seed paper. Dinner attendees were offered permission to dream and questions to clarify their visions. Each person was gifted handmade wildflower seed paper to grow their dreams into reality indoors over the winter or to plant them this fall for spring blooming.
Menu:
- Sesame Tofu – on a bed of cabbage, carrot, peppers with a side of green onion jalapeno sauce.
- Sesame Chicken – on a bed of cabbage, carrot, peppers with a side of green onion jalapeno sauce.
- Grilled Squash – squash and zucchini grilled with farm garlic
- Corn Salad – featuring seasonal sweet corn, cucumbers and tomatoes
- Zucchini Bread – savory bread loaded with veggies
- Grilled Peaches with salted maple whipped cream
Farms:
- Sundance Harvest (Downsview Park- Toronto, Bolton and Guelph, ON)
- Atiba Farms (Mono, ON) Black Owned farm
- Sweet Ridge Farms (Scarborough/Markham border, ON)
- Footstep Farms (Wooler, ON)
- Coyote Song (Erin, ON)
- Florence Farms (Backyard Garden)
- kumari’s garden
