Present Activities

The Food Journey©

This is a journey of Displacements, Replacements and Complacency.

The Food Journey© is an immersive and multisensory experience. It guides participants through a visceral exploration of histories and cultures using a sensory narrative, which speaks to various kinds of agricultural products and their movements.

It covers journeys of foods and other natural materials that involve Africa, different parts of Asia and Australasia (Abya Yala) the Americas and, of course, Europe, in the course of its imperial expansions, which involved trade, trafficking and trauma. (Read more…)

The Pluriverse of Wisdom (Is Ananse/I Mek It)

This is a journey of ancestral indigeneities and migrant movements. It is in service of bringing about a greater eco-cultural balance across the multi-polar universe, or pluriverse. It will be a way of acknowledging and then repairing or healing ecologies (which include people as well as all other forms of life) by centring knowledge that has become marginalised by the modern world.

Across the worlds there are folktales which teach each generation the cultural lessons that keep the people resilient and thriving, or even simply surviving. We wish to work with these folktales as a way of reigniting ancestral values and meanings which we feel have a role in the necessary, reparative work of today. (Read more…)

Decolonising Knowledge A Partnership exploration between:

We were invited, together with Rebecca Lorins of the Likikiri Collective to spend a few days in discursive workshop with RVI’s local ‘stakeholders’, Early Career Researchers and invited activists and subject specialists and staff at BIEA and RVI. The event was hosted by BIEA.

Composting Trauma: Workshop in Hackney City Farm

Reflections on what it means to be soiled and dirty

Up in the forest of tree stumps, where, like in an elephant’s graveyard, the trees were mourning their relatives, we embraced grief in the soil and then washed it away from each other’s feet and anointed each others earth antennae with some tropical oils of our foremothers.

Lots of lovely intimacies shared and reflections on what it means to be soiled and dirty. The aroma and spirit of burning herbs was a presence, what did they say to you?

Coming Soon…

  • Ecological Imaginary
  • Building Community Agreements
  • Transition and Transforming
  • Just Space