Friday

Farming day at de Lutkemeerpolder

When? 27 May, 10:00 – 22:30

Where? Lutkemeerpolder

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Evening program

Dinner, gathering and evening performances organized at NoordOogst

Workshop Descriptions Saturday

SATURDAY MORNING

Who should ask for pardon and who can grant it? – by the Zapatismo Study Group + artist Diana Cantarey + writer Bernardo Núñez

On the 18th January 1994 the EZLN published the communiqué “Who should ask for pardon and who can grant it?”. Since the very beginning of their uprising the Zapatista movement has been always aware of the question of Justice. And through their path for autonomy they have been working on the building of another world where all types of Justice are finally happening. 

The people that resist and struggle against capitalist, colonial and patriarchal oppressions in the Netherlands could learn from the Zapatista movement to design radical tools to imagine other possible worlds.

With the help of Za’pataphysics* we will do the attempt to envision restitutions in this privileged and depoliticized country that was, and still remains, built upon slavery, settler colonialism and capitalist extraction of the Global South.

This workshop will depart from the Zapatistas lessons on pardon, to collectively envision restitutions on an alternative parallel reality. We will work on the production of a collective visionary fiction piece where Justice is finally happening here. Have you watched the episode “The Big PayBack” from the Atlanta TV show? If yes, we will try to imagine something similar but really radical and under the White Innocence conditions of the Netherlands. The provocation is then, if justice is happening what kind of restitutions are going to take place?

Meanwhile some are writing others will be doing cup shaped clay thingys, as a gesture to the Mayan way of storytelling in their pottery.

The final outcome of this workshop will be a collective piece of visionary writing and a multiplicity of clay anarchist thinggys shaped to drink Zapatista coffee.

*Za’pataphysics is the extemporary art and science of the other impossibles.

Location: Nurturing resistance

Language: English

Interactive format

Vinyasa Yoga for all levels

Yoga class for all levels. We will start with some relaxing poses to connect with the space and the sounds around us, then we will have some dynamic poses and we will end up with restorative and calming-down poses which will guide us to our final relaxation moment savasana. We will be focusing a lot on the breath and the combination of breathing with the poses. Releasing tension and energising the mind and the body. This is a class for everybody so there will be options for beginners and for people who practice yoga more often.This is going to be a nice time to slow down, connect with ourselves and get ready to continue the day with some new refreshed energy.

Location:Autonomous space

Language: English

Interactive format

NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Solidarity With Migrant Landworkers in Europe – by Catherine McAndrew  

Earlier this year, the the Landworkers’ Alliance’s Catherine McAndrew visited farms in Huelva, Spain as part of an international delegation from the European Coordination of Via Campesina’s (ECVC) Migrant and Rural Workers’ Working Group. 

This webinar will explore working and environmental conditions at the bottom of corporate supply chain. If you have eaten a strawberry that says it came from Spain, there is a good chance it came from Huelva. 350,000 tonnes of strawberries are produced there each year, worth a billion euros in total. 100,000 workers are required to grow and harvest this red gold, who face oppressive working conditions, exposure to poisonous agrichemicals, and repression from a hostile migration system. Through a presentation of photos, we will seek to reveal the reality of an industrial food system based on the exploitation of the land and the people that work it.

Wage workers are often at the sharpest edge of the exploitative practices of a corporate food system that aims to extract wealth from both the land and the people that work it. The fight of agricultural workers for human conditions on their farms directly challenges the rule of the corporates, and every success helps lays the foundation of a food system based on dignity and sovereignty. 

The speaker: Catherine coordinates the Migrant Workers Solidarity Project for the Landworkers’ Alliance, and is part of the ECVC Migrant & Rural Workers’ Working Group. She specialises in issues relating to working conditions on industrial farms supplying supermarkets and in developing method for the empowerment of the workers at the base of these supply chains

Online hybrid session: [add link]

Location: Sowing solidarity

Language: English

What’s happening with Voedselpark Amsterdam? – by Alies & Liz from Behoud Lutkemeer 

Alies and Liz from Voedselpark Amsterdam and Behoud Lutkemeer will have a conversation about the struggle to protect the Lutkemeerpolder from profit-driven capitalist destruction to make money for a small group of people. The campaign has taken action along the spectrum to make sure that the polder can remain a space that protects and promotes biodiversity 

Location: Harvesting autonomy

Language: English

Behoud Lutkemeer: Lancering Voedselpark Amsterdam – Krapuul

Queering Ecology Reading – by  Andi & Bee from AFGA (Anarcha Feminist Group Amsterdam)

In this session, we will read a text about Queerness and ecology and afterward discuss the text.

Location: Autonomous space

Language: English

Interactive session

How to start a food co-operative – by Luke Murphy from Biobulkbende

Based on the experiences of helping set up Biobulkbende (https://biobulkbende.org), a food co-op based in Rotterdam, I will do a short presentation of how the co-op started, how it works & how people can start their own. Setting up a food co-op can be a great way to get involved with food autonomy now and not later which has lower barrier to entry and creates space to politicize the issue of food autonomy.

Location : Sowing solidarity

Language: English

Peut être une image de fruit et texte qui dit ’Biobulkbende The first organic autonomous foodcoop in Rotterdam’

Wageningen University connections to fossil fuel companies and the agri-food industry – by Brigitte and Oscar from The Jester

The talk will be about Wageningen university connections to fossil fuel companies and agribusinesses. We will also discuss what it is like to study in this context and the work in student journalism that we and other students do to address these issues. 

Location : Nurturing Resistance

Language: English

How to live for free? – by Autonomous Student Struggle (ASS)

Skillshare about how we go about with no/little money!

Location : Harvesting autonomy

Language: English

Interactive format

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Discover several edible and medicinal herbs growing locally on a guided foraging walk – by Hinne

Whether you’d like to become more independent from industrial food systems and pharmaceutical companies or just want to reconnect with plants around you, then this workshop is for you! This walk will be guided by Hinne who studied herbalism for a year and did years of self-study. 

Location : gather at the autonomous space at the beginning of the session

Language: English

Interactive format

NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Panel on “Resistances to extractivism and dispossession » – Speakers : Danilo from CRIC (), Malin from Semillas de Vida, & Omar from STOPEACOP

The idea is to share different strategies of resistance against extractivist and dispossession logics and projects, with a focus on the speaker’s decolonial work and campaign. Other discussion topics will encompass the interconnectedness of extractivism(s), neocolonialism, dispossession, the industrial food system, the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis. The panel will be held online and will have three participants that will talk about their different ways of resisting these pressuring issues from different views. Two of the panelists work with food-related issues and the rescue and defence of native seeds and local food on the territory. The third panelist works around struggles for the defense of the territory from the extraction of coal and energy production based on extractivism. Below you can find a brief description of their work:

Danilo: Danilo Is Colombian. He is part of the communications team from the Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC), that could be translated as the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, in Colombia. The CRIC has been doing a process of “luchas Desde adentro” (fights from within) sowing healthy food as a way to fight the illicit coca crops that have been extending in their territory. Danilo will address the topic of food and the way it has been undertaken by the Nasa indigenous community in the northern part of the Cauca region. The Nasa indigenous community has been cultivating food in spaces that they have recovered from sugarcane monocultures, and has been bringing this food to marginalized neighborhoods in different cities of Colombia. https://www.cric-colombia.org/portal/ 

Malin: Malin is Swedish but naturalized Mexican, where she has spent the last 13 years.  She is the coordinator of the Semillas de Vida Foundation, which works on the recovery of native corn in different processes with communities in Mexico. They do recovery processes of different types of corn with different communities. The foundation also works with rural-urban linkage processes, political advocacy processes through the fight against transgenic crops and legal support in lawsuits against transgenic corn. https://semillasdevida.org.mx/ 

Omar: Omar Elmawi is from Kenya. His work is centered around the fight against coal extraction and the dispossession it generates as well as on the pushing for more sustainable energy futures for Kenya. He also works around the protection of sensible ecosystems in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and addresses climate change concerns. Particularly he has been coordinating the campaign Stop EACOP, that is fighting to stop the world’s longest crude oil pipeline that Total and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation are on the cusp of building through the heart of Africa. https://www.stopeacop.net/home 

Online hybrid session:  

Location: Sowing solidarity

Language: English & Spanish (with possibility of translation to English)

Carbon from an agricultural perspective – by Jan

The workshop will start with a short lecture including the basics of carbon cycles as well as an analysis of the current planetary situation. It will then transition to a forum with the aim of open sourcing information concerning both theory and approachable practices.

Location : Nurturing Resistance

Language: English

How to: arrestee support group – by Arrestantengroep 

Through this workshop you will learn how to organize arrestee support if your group is going into action/demonstration. This workshop will be interactive, so you can acquire the skills you need to do successful arrestee support.  

Location: Harvesting autonomy

Language: English

Interactive format

Panel on the topic of “Disability justice and food systems– Speakers: Washieka Tenieka Torres, Kristie Cabrera, Julie Nowak and Wonko

How can we rethink the role food plays in our society from an anti-ableist, decolonial perspective?
In this panel discussion we will discuss the connection between disability justice and the food system, the food justice and wider anti-capitalist movement. We will dive into the different struggles and perspectives that the panelists encounter in their work, activism and daily lives. 

Together we will envision a future where activist movements learn from the disability justice movement to fight for a more just food system. 

We are very happy to have the following great speakers on the panel: 

Washieka Tenieka Torres is a disability rights scholar, activist, and documentarian who focuses on the intersections of food sovereignty and disability rights. She also looks at wellness and how to reexamine our societal ideas around wellness. (Washieka Tenieka Torres).

Wonko (Fakkelplemp) is a wheelchair activist from the Netherlands who gives workshops about disability in activism (fakkelplemp.nl). 

Julie Nowak is the founder and writer of the blog “Seasonal body” that explores the intersection of nature connection, disability justice, body liberation & food justice (https://seasonalbody.org/)

Kristie Cabrera is a queer, neurodivergent, Latinx occupational therapist, urban farmer, and herbalist in training (fakkelplemp.nl). 

Online hybrid session: 

Location: Sowing solidarity

Language: English

Unlearning gender stereotypes, toxic masculinity and smashing the patriarchy – by Berend and Krijn from Patriarkraakt

How can we make our scene and ourselves safer for women, queers and trans people? How do we unlearn things like toxic masculinity? And how do we break the power of the patriarchy?​​​​​​​

In this workshop, focused on but not exclusively for people socialized as men, we will reflect on the influence and consequences of gender stereotypes, patriarchy and toxic masculinity. The people leading this workshop will not provide you answers for life, but will instead invite everyone to actively think about alternatives and ways to unlearn and break through aforementioned dynamics.

Location: Nurturing Resistance

Language: English

Interactive session

The power of organizing and democratic unions – by Rosa

“More of us is better for everyone!”: the call for more health care workers is not new but more urgent than ever. Finally a wave of more and more powerful, well-organized health care worker movements is rolling though Germany.

In this workshop, we will first discuss the main concepts of unions, organizing and collective bargaining to understand the importance and power of strong, democratic unions in the fight for a health care system that serves the people, not profit. After a first-hand report from the current struggle in German University hospitals you will then explore your new organizing skills with each other. Because good organizing is always worthwhile but needs a good method and a lot of practice!

Location: Harvesting autonomy

Language: English

Interactive session

Befriend your local Ecology – by Stadstuinderij NoordOogst 

Together we will explore the Foodforest and its ecological responsibilities throughout our own embodied sensorial observations.

Location: gather at the autonomous space at the beginning of the session

Language: English or Dutch

Interactive session

NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

NEDERLANDS: Samen zullen we het Voedselbos en zijn ecologische verantwoordelijkheden verkennen door middel van onze eigen Samen zullen we het Voedselbos en zijn ecologische verantwoordelijkheden verkennen door middel van onze eigen lichamelijke, zintuiglijke waarnemingen.

Locatie: verzamel aan het begin van de sessie in de autonome ruimte

Taal: Engels of Nederlands

Interactieve sessie

NIET ROLSTOEL TOEGANKELIJK!

Decolonizing oppressive food systems : An ongoing action about the resistance in a tortilla – by Gran Colectivo Pantitlán

Making visible the relationship between politics, body and “heirloom masa”, the corn dough that is the base to many mesoamerican foods, we will shape the masa in it’s endless life circle: the tortilla. The embodied knowledge that is embedded in the process of shaping the masa by hand will be taught, imitated, and mastered in the making of a collective corn based meal and collection of messages printed in a pop-up press on “revolución” paper (the one used to wrap warm tortillas in Mexico).

Location: refer to the map

Gira Holanda : A Zapatista painting. An extemporary artwork of the Zapatistas as a gift for the Netherlands from below and to the left. 

The Zapatistas, that visited the Netherlands and met with collectives, people and organizations, gave a painting to Gira Holanda as a way to say thanks to you all. Gira Holanda is the collective entity that organically came together for welcoming the EZLN in the Netherlands during the Zapatista Journey for Life.

We just framed the Zapatista painting and we would like to display it during the Food Autonomy Festival. To share it within the collectives they met and listened to their struggle during the Journey for Life throughout this undersea level territory of the Slumil K´Ajxemk´Op (also know as Europe).

This extemporary painting does not belong to anybody in particular. Belongs to the organized people in general. The people that, from below and to the left, fight for Life in the Netherlands. So, we want to take this opportunity to articulate a communal care agreement of this image during the FAF. In order to circulate it across Dutch territory to visit and become a guest in the spaces that host and practice autonomy, rebellion and resistance against capitalism in NL.

Location: refer to the map

Art installations by Cécile and Irene de Gelder

Cécile

These textile sculptures, family portraits and postcards are made for specific distribution centres in the Netherlands. I am interested in these buildings as a physical outcome of an online supply chain that needs to be constantly available, yet absent from the landscape. In order to camouflage, these centres are designed like pixelated versions of the landscapes they are in. Mimicking their facade, my work investigates their absence, presence and character in the landscape. During the exhibition of the work I invited the audience to write a postcard to a distribution centre to temporarily reverse the supply chain.

Irene de Gelder

Under the false pretenses of capitalist expansion and efficiency, our streets are being designed for economic traffic at the cost of the quality of living for humans and nature as a whole. Funnily enough, construction sites demand a slower pace for traffic even though they are ultimately constructing a faster pace of life in the city. In RIGHT TO THE CITY LEFT, construction site furniture is being appropriated to protect slow pace growing life which construction sites usually destroy once they are finished with constructions. The subversive sculptures made from -soft- wool are giving an alternative to -hard- capitalist norms enforced on us in our streets and reminds us that life and nature should be actively protected.

NEDERLANDS: Onder de valse voorwendselen van kapitalistische expansie en efficiëntie worden onze straten ontworpen voor economisch verkeer ten koste van de levenskwaliteit van mens en natuur als geheel. Gek genoeg vereisen bouwplaatsen een langzamer tempo voor het verkeer, ook al bouwen ze uiteindelijk een sneller levenstempo in de stad op. In RIGHT TO THE CITY LEFT wordt bouwplaatsmeubilair toegeëigend om het langzaam groeiende leven te beschermen dat bouwplaatsen meestal vernietigen als ze klaar zijn met constructies. De subversieve sculpturen gemaakt van -zachte- wol bieden een alternatief voor -harde- kapitalistische normen die ons in onze straten worden opgelegd en herinneren ons eraan dat leven en natuur actief beschermd moeten worden.

Climbing training – by Climbers4Climate

Join us for this basic climbing and learn how to climb up and down a tree on a rope. We do not have fixed time slots for the trainings, so just come by and check out what we are up to! 

Location: refer to the map or ask at the info welcoming stall

NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Seed & Seedling exchange + Seed Bomb making – by ASEED

At the Food Autonomy Festival it will be possible to exchange seeds and seedlings of edible plants! Bring the seeds you saved, and seedlings that do not fit in your garden/pots, swap them for other edible species. By swapping we will become less dependent on traders and large seed companies. We get the chance to exchange rare or specific breeds, and to grow something new in our gardens and on our balconies! Swapping seeds and seedlings is based on trust. You want to know what you grow in your garden, especially if you are planning to save some seeds from it yourself. So if you bring seeds and plants to the swap table please write down as precise as possible what it is, when and where the seeds have been harvested or bought, and – if you know – how the new owners should take care of the plants. 

NEDERLANDS: Heb je zin om iets nieuws te kweken in je tuin of op je balkon? Op het Food Autonomy Festival kun je zaden en zaailingen van eetbare planten ruilen! Neem zaden mee die je hebt bewaard, zaailingen die niet meer in je tuin of op je balkon passen kun je omruilen voor zaailingen van andere eetbare soorten. Zeldzame, inheemse of bijzondere rassen zijn zeer welkom! Door zaden en planten te ruilen worden we minder afhankelijk van handelaren en grote zaadbedrijven. Het ruilen van zaden en zaailingen is gebaseerd op vertrouwen. Je wilt weten wat je in je tuin kweekt, vooral als je van plan bent om er zelf zaden van te gaan bewaren. Dus als je zaden en planten meeneemt naar de ruiltafel schrijf dan alsjeblieft zo precies mogelijk op wat het is, wanneer en waar de zaden zijn geoogst of gekocht, en – als je het weet – hoe de nieuwe eigenaren voor de plantjes moeten zorgen.

Location: refer to the map

SATURDAY EVENING

Queer Poetry Session

In soil we speak [spoken word/poetry] – by Sascha Sylbing 

A short spoken word/poetry performance in both Dutch and English, concerning autonomy and resistance and its relationship to land, sea, homegrown food and care.

Don’t need cake for breakfast – spoken word by Rots4realsies

Topics: Climate justice & decolonizing oppressive food systems

NEDERLANDS: In aarde spreken we [gesproken woord/poëzie] – door Sascha Sylbing Een korte spoken word/poëzie performance in zowel Nederlands als Engels, over autonomie en verzet en de relatie tot land, zee, voedsel van eigen bodem en zorg.

Geen taart nodig voor het ontbijt – gesproken woord door Rots4realsies

Onderwerpen: Klimaatrechtvaardigheid & dekolonisatie van onderdrukkende voedselsystemen

Amara

Boktor

Location: Harvesting Autonomy 

Acoustic Performances

Giant Julie and Max: Pop from a Place of Hope

Wynmm

Location: Harvesting Autonomy 

Workshop Descriptions Sunday

SUNDAY MORNING

No Border Camp 2022

The  talk will present the No Border Camp. 

“This summer we will organize a No Border Camp, somewhere* in the Netherlands. A week of actions, networking, meetings and discussions about all aspects of repressive migration policies – detention of refugees, racist border controls, deportations, militarization of borders, exploitation of migrant workers, etc. – and the connections with other areas of struggle, such as climate, anti-racism and anti-militarism. The international Abolish Frontex campaign is an important spearhead for the camp.

In the No Border Camp we want to bring the undocumented and the documented together. During the camp, interesting workshops are held and we discuss how we can all take a stand and organize resistance against the harsh Dutch and European migration policies.”

Location: Sowing solidarity

Language: English

Taste the world behind cacao! – by Esther Boukema

With cacao as the starting point of an adventurous journey, we dive into history and the stories behind our food. In a 1.5 hour workshop you will experience 3 parts of the story of cacao. In one part you will learn the individual plant ingredients of a ceremonial cacao drink from the Amazon. What part of the plant is it, how is this plant processed, how can you enhance the taste and what is its medicinal effect?

In another part you will make and taste this ceremonial cacao drink together. Ingredients are heated, mortared, mixed and sieved. In part 3 we exchange what role cacao plays in our diverse cultural backgrounds and our own eating habits… We also listen to the stories of young people who are currently working on the cacao plantations.

By asking yourself what the meaning and values ​​of food are, ideas arise about the principles of responsible global citizenship for a livable earth.

Location: Nurturing Resistance

Language: Dutch (with possibility of translation to English)

Interactive session

NEDERLANDS: Met cacao als startpunt van een avontuurlijke reis duiken we in de geschiedenis en de verhalen achter ons eten. In een workshop van 1,5 uur ervaar je 3 delen van het verhaal van cacao. In een deel leer je de individuele plantaardige ingrediënten van een ceremoniële cacaodrank uit de Amazone. Welk deel van de plant is het, hoe wordt deze plant verwerkt, hoe kun je de smaak versterken en wat is de geneeskrachtige werking?

In een ander deel van de workshop ga je samen deze ceremoniële cacaodrank maken en proeven. Ingrediënten worden verwarmd, gemetseld, gemengd en gezeefd. In deel 3 wisselen we uit welke rol cacao speelt in onze diverse culturele achtergronden en onze eigen eetgewoonten… We luisteren ook naar de verhalen van jongeren die momenteel aan het werk zijn op de cacaoplantages.

Door je af te vragen wat de betekenis en waarden van voedsel zijn, ontstaan ​​ideeën over de principes van verantwoord wereldburgerschap voor een leefbare aarde.

Locatie: Nurturing Resistance

Taal: Nederlands (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling naar Engels)

Interactieve sessie

Reclaim the land – by David and Dido from Kapitaloceen

In this workshop we will think together about why non-human life forms and idealist farmers have such limited access to land, and what we can do about it. We talk about the experience of Stichting Kapitaloceen in trying to reclaim space. About the successes and struggles of thinking beyond ownership in our capitalist system. See www.kapitaloceen.nl

Location: Harvesting Autonomy

Language: English or Dutch (with possibility of translation to English)

Interactive session

NEDERLANDS: In deze workshop denken we samen na over waarom niet-menselijke levensvormen en idealistische boeren beperkte toegang hebben tot land. We bespreken ook wat we daaraan kunnen doen. De ervaringen van Stichting Kapitaloceen worden besproken als voorbeeld van het proberen terug te winnen van ruimte. Samen denken we over de successen en de strijd voorbij eigendom in ons kapitalistische systeem. Zie www.kapitaloceen.nl

Locatie: Harvesting Autonomy

Taal: Engels of Nederlands (vertaling mogelijk)

Interactieve sessie

Small-scale Composting – by Sariek Cohen from Polycrox B.V. 

To link with the event’s theme, the topic is the role of composting systems in providing the potential for autonomous and self-sufficient growing systems. We intend to showcase samples of the various by-products from the different household composting systems we are involved with (10-20 mins). After which, we thought to have an open Q&A about composting in general and small-scale household composting in particular (40-50 mins). 

Location: Autonomous space

Language: English 

Interactive session

Debt for Climate: Turning Climate Debt into Climate Action – by Esteban from Debt For Climate!

During this workshop you will have the opportunity to learn more and ask all your questions about the Debt For Climate! campaign. “We are a grassroots, Global South-driven initiative connecting social & climate justice struggles by uniting labor, social and climate movements from the Global South & North toward a common goal of turning debt-trap diplomacy on its head by canceling the debt of impoverished nations as a way to pay for leaving fossil fuels in the ground and financing a just transition. The implementation of a global Debt-for-Climate initiative has the potential to leave trillions of dollars in fossil fuel reserves in the ground, while freeing countries from a strangling debt burden often used as a tool for further extraction of natural resources. We are organizing a global action to push these demands during the G7 meeting on June 26-28. Join us!” https://debtforclimate.org/

Online hybrid session: [add link]

Location: Sowing solidarity

Language: English 

Debt for Climate (@DebtforClimate) / Twitter

Peat-Free – by RE-PEAT

This interactive session offers an insight into the topic of peat and the horticultural soil industry. During the workshop we will cover the basics of why peatlands are so important and encourage a deeper reflection about the production of potting soil.

During the session, we will host a participant-led simulation demonstrating the difference in speed and scale between peat formation and peat extraction. Following this, we will give a presentation about peatlands, covering the importance of acting on an individual level but also on a political and nation-wide level, the interaction between the peat extraction industry and the agricultural industry, and the role of tradition in the peat-free discussion. We will also introduce the key players in terms of peat-free policy development and campaigning, and highlight some simple actions that everyone can do. The workshop will end with the creation of either seedballs or portable plant pots, all made from peat-free soil that the participants will be able to take home. This will also allow people to ask any final questions or have a chat with the RE-PEAT team.

Location: Nurturing resistance

Language: English

Interactive session

Wet farming Insta.tiff

Disability in activist spaces – by Fakkelplemp

We will talk about two how to achieve two goals in this workshop. Firstly, how to use the common feeling of discomfort over other peoples’ disability to the advantage of the action. Secondly, how to make actions comfortable for everybody and every body.

Location: Harvesting autonomy

Language: English

Interactive session

Co-creation space on ableism

In order to make the FAFs more welcoming, carrying and respectful, we would like to organize some reflection and creation times to discuss how we may perpetuate oppressions within our festival and what we can apply to avoid it.

As this festival is a long term project we would like to have 3 sessions: one before, one during and one after the festival.

During these sessions we will discuss the report of the cocreation spaces organized by “les rayonantes” and “the climate justice camp” and see what we could apply to the FAF.

We are hoping to hold some co-creation spaces ourselves in the future.

This will be the second session and will focus on abelism. 

Location: Harvesting autonomy

Language: English

Interactive session

Kombucha 101, how to brew your own at home – by Zeb

They will explain what kombucha/SCOBY are, then give the basic instructions for brewing kombucha at home and explain the steps for harvesting and demonstrate the batch process.

Location: Autonomous space

Language: English

Interactive session

City gardening for more butterflies – by Mot in Mokum 

In a walk through the butterfly garden Mot in Mokum, initiator Nicky Castricum explains how we can regenerate nature in the middle of the city. In the form of flower meadows but also on a very small scale in facade gardens. We talk about host plants, gestation plants, overwintering, phased mowing, but also how to get started in your neighborhood.

Location: gather at the autonomous space at the beginning of the session

Language: Dutch (with possibility of translation to English)

Interactive session

NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

NEDERLANDS: Tijdens een wandeling door vlindertuin Mot in Mokum legt initiatiefnemer Nicky Castricum uit hoe we midden in de stad de natuur kunnen herstellen. In de vorm van bloemenweiden maar ook op zeer kleine schaal in geveltuinen. We praten over waardplanten, drachtplanten, overwinteren, gefaseerd maaien, maar ook hoe je aan de slag gaat bij jou in de buurt.


Locatie: verzamel aan het begin van de sessie in de autonome ruimte

Taal: Nederlands (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling naar Engels)

Interactieve sessie

NIET ROLSTOEL TOEGANKELIJK!

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

GAYAP/Conspirare.. Intersectionality and Collective Liberation – by Dee Woods from the Landworkers Alliance/LION/African & Caribbean Heritage Food Network

This is a talk/ conversation about the critical social theory of intersectionality as a framework for radical transformation in our food system. It will centre the experiences of the global majority from a decolonial and liberatory perspective. Gayap..a term derived from the Indigenous Karinya concept of Kayapa to describe the community coming together to complete a huge task. Latin conspirare “to agree, unite, plot,” literally “to breathe together.

Online hybrid session: [add link]

Location: Sowing solidarity

Language: English

Decolonizing oppressive food systems : An ongoing action about the resistance in a tortilla – by Gran Colectivo Pantitlán

Making visible the relationship between politics, body and “heirloom masa”, the corn dough that is the base to many mesoamerican foods, we will shape the masa in it’s endless life circle: the tortilla. The embodied knowledge that is embedded in the process of shaping the masa by hand will be taught, imitated, and mastered in the making of a collective corn based meal and collection of messages printed in a pop-up press on “revolución” paper (the one used to wrap warm tortillas in Mexico).

Location: refer to the map

Art installations by Cécile and Irene de Gelder

Cécile

These textile sculptures, family portraits and postcards are made for specific distribution centres in the Netherlands. I am interested in these buildings as a physical outcome of an online supply chain that needs to be constantly available, yet absent from the landscape. In order to camouflage, these centres are designed like pixelated versions of the landscapes they are in. Mimicking their facade, my work investigates their absence, presence and character in the landscape. During the exhibition of the work I invited the audience to write a postcard to a distribution centre to temporarily reverse the supply chain.

Irene de Gelder

Under the false pretenses of capitalist expansion and efficiency, our streets are being designed for economic traffic at the cost of the quality of living for humans and nature as a whole. Funnily enough, construction sites demand a slower pace for traffic even though they are ultimately constructing a faster pace of life in the city. In RIGHT TO THE CITY LEFT, construction site furniture is being appropriated to protect slow pace growing life which construction sites usually destroy once they are finished with constructions. The subversive sculptures made from -soft- wool are giving an alternative to -hard- capitalist norms enforced on us in our streets and reminds us that life and nature should be actively protected.

NEDERLANDS: Onder de valse voorwendselen van kapitalistische expansie en efficiëntie worden onze straten ontworpen voor economisch verkeer ten koste van de levenskwaliteit van mens en natuur als geheel. Gek genoeg vereisen bouwplaatsen een langzamer tempo voor het verkeer, ook al bouwen ze uiteindelijk een sneller levenstempo in de stad op. In RIGHT TO THE CITY LEFT wordt bouwplaatsmeubilair toegeëigend om het langzaam groeiende leven te beschermen dat bouwplaatsen meestal vernietigen als ze klaar zijn met constructies. De subversieve sculpturen gemaakt van -zachte- wol bieden een alternatief voor -harde- kapitalistische normen die ons in onze straten worden opgelegd en herinneren ons eraan dat leven en natuur actief beschermd moeten worden.

Climbing training – by Climbers4Climate

Join us for this basic climbing and learn how to climb up and down a tree on a rope. We do not have fixed timeslots for the trainings, so just come by and check out what we are up to! 

Location: refer to the map or ask at the info welcoming stall

NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Seed & Seedling exchange + Seed Bomb making – by ASEED

At the Food Autonomy Festival it will be possible to exchange seeds and seedlings of edible plants! Bring the seeds you saved, and seedlings that do not fit in your garden/pots, swap them for other edible species. By swapping we will become less dependent on traders and large seed companies. We get the chance to exchange rare or specific breeds, and to grow something new in our gardens and on our balconies! Swapping seeds and seedlings is based on trust. You want to know what you grow in your garden, especially if you are planning to save some seeds from it yourself. So if you bring seeds and plants to the swap table please write down as precise as possible what it is, when and where the seeds have been harvested or bought, and – if you know – how the new owners should take care of the plants. 

Location: refer to the map