CANCELLED: Potluck Lunch: Do it Yourself. Shamelessly Messy
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Colour photographs, interior. top left image: Person eating a sandwich and chatting to the person next to them. They are sat at a long table with lots of chairs. Centre left image: Dessert toast with a strawberry and cream topping. Bottom left image: strawberry sandwiches plated and in a stack. Right image: Lots of people in a queue by a table of food, they are going to each food and assembling their sandwiches.
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. We will be in touch with all bookers in due course to arrange full refunds.
Sarah and Kitt invite you to get socially awkward at their DIY chaos lunch. Through shared mess making (followed by collaborative tidying up) the group will experience, embrace and discuss the wild possibilities of grainy, complicated, sometimes uncomfortable ways of working- “mess making as social glue”.
They ask that participants bring ingredients to make themselves a favourite or desired (uncooked) lunch.
Summary of activity:
Initially Kitt and Sarah will introduce their collective and separate approaches to DIY mess making. Sarah will read a brief inspirational text by Ruby Tandoh from her book from her book ‘Eat Up’ and Kitt will introduce their “Collaborative Sandwich Making” workshop as a method for building and considering the role of mess in community building.
Next, you’ll all work in pairs to make lunches together, so please bring the ingredients and tools you need to make an (uncooked!) lunch (ingredients for sandwiches are recommended as a simple and fun way of engaging in the activity). While you are making, there will be discussions about collaborative DIY approaches to art/mess/community making by asking questions such as:
- Can mess help us nourish our collective confidence to be vulnerable?
- How can we grow the willingness, resources and expertise to embrace, value, learn from and celebrate chaos and failure?
- How can systems and structures that prevent these approaches be tenderly dismantled?
After you have finished eating, participants will collaboratively clean up.
Lastly, you will discuss how the tidying happened and what we can potentially learn about the burgeoning culture of a group by tidying up together. We will encourage drawing and writing of “recipes” for collaborative tidying.
“Tidying up recipes” from the lunch will then be shared after the session.
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