Events
6 Sept 2024: Codices, Cycles, Cosmologies
Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
What cosmologies might we draw from the codices?
Join a workshop to trace connections between agro-ecological ways of being in Mexico and Scotland. Informed by ongoing research with growers in Oaxaca and Chiapas, this event aims to hold space for a conversation around pre- and post-colonial relationships to land, plants and food.
• Explore illustrations from the codices – indigenous manuscripts created in Mesoamerica before and during the Spanish colonial period
• Reflect on these through drawing exercises led by artist Désirée Coral, exploring the philosophy of plant-centred cultures, and the dangers of extractivism
• Learn about the work of the Food Sovereignty Network and their ongoing engagement with agro-ecological movements in Mexico
• View new commissioned works by Mexican artists, Asunción Álvares and Mari Mariel.
• Practise the ancestral art of processing seeds with Glasgow Seed Library
The workshop is an opportunity for anyone interested in growing, botany, food cultures, indigenous lifeways, and artistic practice as a process of exchange. All welcome.
Tickets here: Codices, Cycles, Cosmologies | CCA Glasgow (cca-glasgow.com)
28 May 2024 - 02 June 2024: Exhibition - Nourishing Resilience: An Artistic Perspective on Food Sovereignty
Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel Lane
An art exhibition featuring six artists from Scotland, England, Ireland, Ecuador and Mexico working across various mediums such as sculpture, audio and video recordings, and multimedia installation. The exhibition is an extension of the Food Sovereignty Network’s commitment to mobilising artistic practices to contemplate the knowledge generated in the academic environment.
31 May 2022: Scoping meeting
Room 207, 10 Professors' Square. 10-12.00.
Bringing together people at Glasgow who are carrying out research that links to the various topics encompassed under the umbrella term 'food sovereignty' (sustainable development; agricultural systems; health and diets; urban transformations; political economy; rights; self-determination; social change; community engagement etc).
29 October 2021: Growing Glasgow
Gilmorehill Cinema
Growing Glasgow aims to stress issues of our current food system by presenting the efforts of workers, activists and academics to increase the quality, accessibility and sustainability of food in the city of Glasgow. The event consists of two films: the documentary Feeding the City by Zev Robinson and the animation From Food Poverty to Food Sovereignty by Trasi Henen. More information on the "Dear Green Bothy" programme site and the Eventbrite page.
30 June 2021: From Food Poverty to Food Sovereignty
In this online half-day workshop, we want to bring together local food producers, activists for food justice, academics from different disciplines, and artists to reflect on a set of core questions that can inform future directions in research, policy, and practice. Our artists in residence, Zev Robinson and Trasi Henan, curator Tommaso Ranfagni, and representatives from The Wash House Garden, The Landworkers Alliance, Glasgow Community Food Network, and Propagate will come together with academics in the university to discuss:
Session One: What is food poverty and how should it be defined?
Session Two: How can we address food poverty in the UK, and what needs to change in the UK food system to eradicate food poverty? Which of the following frameworks (if any) should be used to drive forwards a national campaign to reform the UK food system: Food Security; the Right to Adequate Food; Food Sovereignty; Food Justice?