Sharing food. forming community.

Sharing food. forming a community.
Bridges BuildingShared Table Event at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
11.6.26, 17:00-20.00 – "Pay what you want"
Short tours and shared food at Café Gemach Manhattan

An evening about food culture and its unifying power.

Which dishes do we associate with home? Which recipes are passed down in families and preserve memories over generations? Visitors to the current exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Werkinsel explored these questions. Inspired by the principle of the ‘cache’ of the Canadian artist Duane Linklater, a diverse repository of Bielefeld food culture was created – filled with personal recipes, stories and culinary memories.

This special fund is the focus of a joint event of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Bildungsstätte Einschlingen and the IBZ Friedenshaus e.V. under the motto "Share food. Community building”, visitors are invited to taste the collected dishes and experience how food connects people and cultures in our city.

Café Gemach Manhattan serves dishes inspired by the recipes and memories of the exhibition visitors. In addition, members of the IBZ's home groups share homemade dishes from Senegal and The Gambia, as well as personal stories and memories associated with these dishes.

From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. it is also possible to take part in short guided tours of the exhibition ‘Duane Linklater. mâcistan’.

The event invites you to get in touch with each other, experience cultural diversity and discover the unifying power of shared meals.

registration

Pre-registration is required for participation:

E-mail: anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
Telephone: 0521 329995018
or personally at the cash desk of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

The event will take place as part of the cooperation project ‘Bridges Building – Creative and Sustainable’.

More about the project:

How can people come into contact with each other who hardly meet in everyday life? How do we create spaces in which different perspectives can become visible and social cohesion can grow?

‘Building bridges – creative and sustainable’ is a joint project of the Einschlingen educational centre, the IBZ Friedenshaus e.V. and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. The aim of the project is to bring people from different backgrounds together through common interests. For this purpose, easily accessible and practice-oriented educational offers in the fields of cultural education and education for sustainable development are developed and tested. The project aims to help people get in touch with each other beyond their usual social groups. In this way, prejudices are to be dismantled, new perspectives opened up and barriers overcome. At the same time, the project contributes to strengthening social cohesion and democracy.

The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the funding instrument "Innovation Fund for Continuing Education".