Fermenting Futures

As we approach the autumnal equinox, we pause to honour the energy and growth that summer has gifted us.

Join us for a participatory fermentation workshop with writer and facilitator Arianne Maki, focusing on intentionally connecting with ingredients and food systems as a response to intensifying climate colonialism.

Fermentation becomes our lens for exploring grief, regeneration, and the necessity of cultivating a slow, multispecies attention. Weaving together communal food making with poems and revolutionary texts, we will tend to the many worlds fomenting all around (and within) us, expanding our past and present to dream up greener futures.

Things to bring with you:

• Please bring along a jar or vessel to take your homemade ferments away with you!

We are grateful to Just FACT for supporting this event as part of the Tower Hamlets Power of Food Festival, and to House of Annetta for hosting us and welcoming us into their space.

This workshop is open to everyone to attend, with the understanding that this is a space that centres pan-Asian identities and folks of the global majority. Please be mindful of this when booking your ticket.

Accessibility note:

If you want to let us know about any access requirements you have in advance of the event, pop us an email at greenlionsesea@gmail.com. Access requirements could include things like adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!

House of Annetta dates from 1705, and has several major limitations to wheelchair accessibility: the step up into the building from the street, the lack of lift to access the upper floors, and the non-accessible toilet. They believe that access to space is a key part of spatial justice - the future repair project will make the building more physically accessible. Read their Accessibility Statement here.

Bios

Devoted to the mundane, the lavish, and the strange, Arianne Maki is a writer and facilitator unearthing flavours of life and multispecies intimacies.

Green Lions are an East and South East Asian community working together to convene, connect, and organise for a more equitable and climate just world. We aim to broaden and deepen the climate movement to include and spotlight ESEA folks, and build solidarity with other racialised and marginalised communities. We hope to co-create, exchange knowledge and experiences, and be a bridge between the UK diaspora and ESEA based communities.

Just FACT is a 5 year partnership programme led by Women’s Environmental Network (Wen) with research from Platform London. It is made up of a network of people and projects in Tower Hamlets, and is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF)’s Climate Action Fund.

Power of Food Festival is a 10-day festival across Tower Hamlets – celebrating the borough’s community and food cultures, and showcasing local projects building fairer, more sustainable food systems.

House of Annetta is a project to repair and imagine the former home of Annetta Pedretti, in Spitalfields - East London. She was a cybernetician and trained architectural designer, and the building became her life-work from 1980 until her death in 2018.