Event overview
How are places defined by the absence of healthy and/or affordable food and specifically, the logistics of bringing food to specific areas?
Food is distributed unevenly within towns and cities. The absence of good quality, affordable and culturally appropriate food in some areas has serious consequences for the quality of meals and for the health and mental wellbeing of local residents. Local unavailability of food is also dependent on unequal provision of logistical infrastructures and contributes to increased traffic and environmental pollution. The recent cost of living crisis has added further stress to household budgets and reduced people’s capacity to access good food.
With a focus on Goldsmiths local community in the borough of Lewisham, in this session we ask how such uneven availability of food comes about, and what can be done about it. We also explore how various actors and organisations within communities create alternative forms of food distribution, or food oases, away from existing distribution channels and attuned to local contexts. Lewisham is one of the areas with the highest percentage of people of African and African American descent. The session takes place in a community hub in Lewisham’s Downham district, an area with an increasing migrant population, and is centred around a meal prepared with Rastafari Movement UK Wellbeing, a local community food and wellbeing project.
This event is part of "Where is the Meal? A Roving and Participatory Event Series on Food, Place and Communities. "Where is the Meal?" is a series of five events responding to the question of how meals relate to place, and its cultural, political, technological and legal conditions. Each event is comprised of a meal for all participants, designed collaboratively by the event organisers and two invited guests. Each individual event serves to both perform the topic of the meal, and engage the guests and audience into a relevant discussion.
Guests:
Sistah Stella Hadley, Co-Founder of Rastafari Movement UK Wellbeing
Simone Riddle, Food Justice Programme Manager of Lewisham Council
Hugh Lort-Phillips, UK programme director of Action Against Hunger.
Michael K. Goodman, Professor of Environment and Development/Human Geography at reading University
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2024 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm |
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