Embodied Approaches to Food (part 1)

Embodied Approaches to Food is aimed at artists of any media and will present two workshops, the first on Monday 21 July and the second on Monday 15 September.

Both workshops provide a space of creative exploration for artists to relate with food crops at a deeper level.

Set within the ecosystem of the Wash House Garden, artists are invited to join facilitators Amy Dakin Harris & Satya Dunning as they share embodied approaches to connect directly with edible plants, and take inspiration from these plant bodies to inform your own creative practice.

In part 1, we will taste, and make light plant based food preparations as part of the process.

We therefore advise having a filling but light lunch before the workshop.

We will be providing teas and coffees. Please bring your own bottle water.

Arrival times:

Please arrive at 1.15pm for a prompt 1.30pm start.

What to wear:

Please wear clothes for moving outdoors such as a waterproof jacket and trousers, footwear suitable such as trainers for moving on uneven and possibly wet surfaces. Participants will have the choice taking precautions to move barefoot.

What to bring:

A bottle of water, notebook, pads, and pen / colouring pens, depending on the weather, suncream &/ sun hat.

Access information

The Wash House Garden is sloped with rough ground, and may be suitable for off-road wheelchair users. There is a composting toilet on site, with public accessible toilets in a nearby pub around 100m away.

Please email satya.dunning@glasgowfood.net for more information or to make an access request.

Getting here:

Closest transport links are: The garden is located a 2 minute walk from bus stops serving buses 61, 240, 255 from the city centre going down Gallowgate. Carntyne train station is a 15 minute walk away. There is free on-street parking just outside the garden. Bikes can be brought in and stored in the garden.

About the organisers:

The Wash House Garden are a Workers Co-operative of Queer Community Growers, stewarding a beautiful piece of land in East Glasgow. We seek to actively contribute to the struggles for food sovereignty and land justice in Glasgow, Scotland and beyond.

The Wash House Garden was borne out of a desire to feel a sense of mutual support and solidarity in a society in which communities have been decimated across the generations, and to grow and eat delicious food that nourished body and soul, soil and planet in spite of our globalised, environmentally damaging, and frankly bland modern food system.

Faced with these at times overwhelming issues, and in the hope of inspiring ripples of change, here in Glasgow’s East End we are taking a small step in the direction we would like to see our society, environment and economy move in.

Glasgow Community Food Network's Food and Climate Action project, funded by The National Lottery, the Food & Climate Action Project is a five year partnership between Glasgow Eco Trust, St Paul’s Youth Forum, Central and West Integration Network, The Wash House Garden & Urban Roots, and is led by Glasgow Community Food Network.

The FCA project aims to co-design alongside communities a kinder, fairer & more resilient food system for Glasgow.

Project activity spans across 3 main strands of work: Movement Building, Food Education & Urban Agriculture.

Workshop Facilitators:

Amy Dakin Harris is a movement artist and land worker, who runs a project called Remedy Fields, and is also a director at The Wash House Garden.She is passionate about how embodiment can help create a more expansive and integrated view of regenerative principles, and loves sharing this perspective with other locals. She hopes to help cultivate a culture of growers/artists/caretakers that are grounded in the life-sustaining cycles of nature. Central to her creative research are ideas and practices around mutual aid, rest, interoception and conversation with land.

Satya Dunning is a Glasgow based Facilitator specialising in:

Body literacy - by fostering and facilitating a return to and reconnection with the body, can a healing - grounded in the body's wisdom - of thinking, feeling and genuine relating in connection with nature and its cycles begin.

Satya believes this process naturally opens the human heart towards the humanity of self and others, and body of the earth.

Emotional literacy - Satya supports self awareness and transformation from inside out using the tools of Nonviolent Communication and compassionate processes.

Nutritional literacy - Using food as medicine to foster vitality and maintain health whilst exploring the emotional and mental patterns at the root of your relationship with food, as well as dietary and lifestyle choices. (Website coming soon).

Image credit SISU and Rumin Studios.