Summer residency in the Pop Up Cafe and Creative Space with artist Dana Olărescu!
Is growing, eating, and consuming food a political act? Let’s work it out together.
The final event in Dana’s residency with us. Come and join us at our Slow Feast and End of Summer Celebration in Lomeshaye Park.
Join us at the start of the day for our ‘Setting the table’ walk – 12pm starting at Althams, Scotland Road, Nelson.
Bring along a table, a chair, a tablecloth, some flowers or something else to animate and furnish our Slow Feast. We will be walking from Altham’s, Scotland Road to Lomeshaye Park along Every Street at 12pm if you’d like to join a performative communal act of setting the table for our Slow Feast.
The walk will be followed by an exciting programme at Lomeshaye Park including:
- Pop-up food residencies with Amy Rayner, Dawn Adams, Hafsah Khan, Marsden Heights & Mums to Mums, Saffron Kitchen, Chloe of Warsaw Kitchen, Vivien Carradice and Leila Rahman!
- Foraging walks with Ian Robinson
- Garam Masala Stories with Zahida and Ajaz Qureshi
- Herbalist Worksop with Danielle Kay
- Taste of Transformation Tepee – music, talks, workshops and speakers!
- UCLan School of Architecture and guests In Conversation
- Joining an allotment with Gemma and Maj
- Re-imagining canteens with Marsden Heights students
- Exploring activating a Food Strategy for Nelson
- Political Food Book Club
- DJ set and Taste of Transformation Bingo
Bring a dish to share, or come and taste the creations of others.
FREE event and all are welcome! If you’d like to get involved please email dana.olarescu@gmail.com
This event is a collaboration with This Is Nelson and Marsden Heights.
Full programme coming soon!
