Sustainable Food Citizen Week

 

Video resum de la Setmana Ciutadana de l'Alimentació Sostenible 2021

The activities of the Sustainable Food Citizen Week

Sustainable Food Citizen Week provides an opportunity to understand the relationship between food habits and cross-cutting aspects such as the climate emergency, local economic development, culture, politics, social rights and health. A week dedicated to citizens, in which you will achieve knowledge, reflection and debate about the main issues of the following activities.

 

 

Gastronomic heritage

Waste vs Good use

Urban rurality and biodiversity

Ecological footprint

Proximity

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Gastronomic heritage

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  • Food heritage and sustainability
    16th October - 17.30 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Round table

    The round table seeks to respond to the following questions. What impact will gastronomic heritage have to face as a consequence of sustainable food? Sustainability “imposes” challenges on us every day. What strategies are being pursued to achieve this adaptation? Will innovation bring us new ways of including sustainable ingredients in our diet? And, have we got ways of maintaining a healthy diet despite the changes to come? How will this need to bring about a transition to a more sustainable diet be compatible with maintaining gastronomic heritage? These are just some of the questions which the speakers in this session will be addressing.

     

  • The Vegetable Orchestra
    The Vegetable Orchestra
    October 16th - 20.00 H
    Teatre del CCCB, Jardí dels Tarongers, Plaça del Rei, Parc de la Barceloneta
    Show

    A unique musical group, the Vegetable Orchestra, plays instruments made from fresh vegetables. The use of various vegetable instruments makes for a unique musical and aesthetic universe. The Vegetable Orchestra covers the most diverse musical styles, combining genres from electronic music to jazz. The newly created instruments determine the resulting sound. A Vegetable Orchestra concert appeals to all five senses.

  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

    At the improshow we play with knowledge about food, sustainability and the climate emergency. We’ll be improvising everyday situations connected with sustainable food and local organisations, through humour and based on audience suggestions.
    An innovative experience in which the audience will become the authors of stories that are surprising, exciting and fun.

     

Waste vs Good use

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  • Taller de vaixelles comestibles
    Edible crockery workshop. How can we get children to eat fruit and vegetables in a fun, and light-hearted way?
    October 16th - 10.00 H / 11.00 H / 12.00 h / 13.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Workshop

    At the edible crockery workshop, children will create their own seasonal spoons, bowls and glasses using domestic technologies, with fruit and vegetables as their materials.
    The aim is to offer children and parents a fun, creative activity that involves healthy food.
    At the workshop, the children explore the shapes, textures, colours, aromas and tastes of the vegetables, learning concepts such as seasonal produce, location, ecology and properties of the fruit and vegetables. At the same time, the workshop fosters the introduction of these foodstuffs in their daily diets.

  • recuperem el valor dels aliments
    Culinary experience: recovering the value of food products
    October 16 - 14.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Culinary experience

    A free, best-use meal to raise people's awareness about the value of food, preventing food waste and making the best use of food. 200 menus will be served, made using recovered food and a plenty of creativity! Parc de la Barceloneta will become an amplifier for the people and projects that work towards reducing food waste, making the most of food and achieving zero waste. The recovered food is the star of the show! The other ingredient: volunteers. The kitchen will be humming thanks to a team of volunteers who make it possible to recover surplus food, cook and serve the dishes. The selection, cleaning and preparation of all the recovered food is carried out in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. Everyone is welcome! On the same day, we will also be offering recovered food that hasn't been used by the kitchen, at an “adoption stall”, as a donation and act of joint responsibility towards the value of the product.

    We hereby inform you that we cannot guarantee that the meals served during this event are free of substances that may cause some type of allergy or food intolerance.

  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

    At the improshow we play with knowledge about food, sustainability and the climate emergency. We’ll be improvising everyday situations connected with sustainable food and local organisations, through humour and based on audience suggestions.
    An innovative experience in which the audience will become the authors of stories that are surprising, exciting and fun.

     

Urban rurality and biodiversity

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  • The Vegetable Orchestra
    The Vegetable Orchestra
    October 16th - 20.00 H
    Teatre del CCCB, Jardí dels Tarongers, Plaça del Rei, Parc de la Barceloneta
    Show

    A unique musical group, the Vegetable Orchestra, plays instruments made from fresh vegetables. The use of various vegetable instruments makes for a unique musical and aesthetic universe. The Vegetable Orchestra covers the most diverse musical styles, combining genres from electronic music to jazz. The newly created instruments determine the resulting sound. A Vegetable Orchestra concert appeals to all five senses.

  • Let's plant traditional varieties
    October 17th from 10.00 to 12.00 H. The activity starts every 25 minutes, lasting 15-20 minutes per shift.
    Plaça Reial
    Workshop

    Transplant varieties of recovered local vegetables, take them home and plant the seeds from the Can Soler store there too!
    In addition, you will learn about the agro-ecological and social inclusion project of the Fundació Els Tres Turons.
    The activity will take place from 10:00 to 12:00 every 25 minutes. Each turn will last between 15 and 20 minutes. Not to be missed!

     

  • Ciudades alimentades
    Ciudades alimentadas
    October 17th - 16.30 H
    Plaça Reial
    Talk, Exhibition

    Performance exhibition of a politico-poetic gastrosophical manifesto which includes some of the most high-impact themes which are consolidated through contributions from the network of experts and leading authorities involved in the research. 

Ecological footprint

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  • Descobreix l’impacte del teu plat de peix
    Discover the impact of your fish dish
    October 16th - 18.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Talk

    Discussion on unsustainable fishing and its impact. What are the consequences of not fishing in our seas? We’ll be meeting up to discuss the impact that international fishing agreements are having and the advantages to local fishing. We will also find out how West Africa's coastal populations are facing over-exploitation of their maritime resources and what local-fish initiatives we have in Barcelona.

  • Digues el que menges, i calcula el que emets
    Tell us what you eat and calculate what you emit
    October 17th - 11.00 H (Plaça del Rei) and October 23th - 10.00 H (Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, next to the Disseny HUB Barcelona
    Plaça del Rei, Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, next to the Disseny HUB Barcelona
    Workshop

    After receiving a brief introduction on climate change and its connection with our food system, everyone attending will be able to calculate the environmental footprint their food generates.

  • L’eficiència energètica a la cuina: un ingredient clau per avançar cap a una alimentació sostenible
    Energy efficiency in the kitchen: a key ingredient for moving towards sustainable food. Workshop on low energy consumption cooking
    October 17th - 12.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Workshop

    A workshop on low energy consumption cooking, to provide ideas and tips for cooking while using as little energy as possible. Tackling the problem in a practical way, we encourage reflection on better food-use cooking and healthy, sustainable food. The workshop aims to provide participants with viable tools for furthering their commitment to reducing the environmental impact of their food, opting for simple, but transformative, solutions. The workshop's objective, through various demonstrations as well as practical and theoretical advice, is to apply this in everyday life. It also fosters the culture of better food use and a complete, balanced diet. The workshop includes an explanation from an expert and the live preparation of various recipes.

Proximity

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  • Horta
    Horta (vegetable garden)
    October 16th - 12.30 H and 17.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Show

    Horta is a show that recuperates values rooted in the earth and the most genuine ancestral customs, bringing them up to date and adapting them to the interests and knowledge of younger children. An itinerant journey through various transformed theatrical spaces in Horta, where the senses and the children are the protagonists: touching the earth, listening to and singing songs, discovering stories and old objects and smelling herbs.

    Joana and Esther, the two stars of this story, have everything ready: this is the time to wake the earth up and start the cycle, as they were shown by their granddad Vicent and their grandma Maria.
    An experience that combines the power of oral narration with the magic and poetry of theatrical and performance resources. Through our senses, we discover what Horta is, with tenderness and emotion, but above all, with humour, entertainment and education.

    The countryside is part of our tradition and our future and... Who knows, the children in the audience today may become the great agronomists of the future!

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  • Local fish, fishermen from Barcelona. How to consume local fish in a sustainable and responsible way
    October 17th - 11.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Talk

    Talk presenting local fish consumption projects such as La Platgeta, which will provide the keys to consuming fish in a healthy, fair, sustainable and responsible way.

  • Experiència gastronòmica: menú degustació amb aliments ecològics i de temporada i proximitat
    Culinary experience: a tasting menu with ecological, local and seasonal food
    October 17th - 14.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Culinary experience

    Would you like to taste a menu put together by healthy, sustainable groups? Let yourself be seduced by their culinary proposals. Come, taste, and become part of the change.

    When designing the menu, we took the following into account:

    • The Mediterranean diet as the basis for the project: seasonal vegetables, legumes and fish.
    • The food offered to us by the producers of local, seasonal ecological produce.
    • The dishes have been designed with culinary combinations, in order to enjoy the territory's food, produced using healthy culinary techniques.

    The menu is cooked by eighteen chefs who belong to the network; we are from Catalonia, Valencia, Aragon, Madrid, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and Galicia.
    We serve the menu accompanied by the producers who supplied the vegetables, legumes, oil, wine and fish. We will also be accompanied by a manager of short-circuit marketing, a nutritionist and an educator; we would like you to meet all of the people who make the change of model possible in our groups, a strategic sector for furthering this change in the food model.

    Menu

    • Cream of sweet potato with hen-of-the-wood mushrooms
    • Raw vegetable salad with pomegranate and orange vinaigrette
    • Chickpea hamburger with spinach and young garlic sauce
    • Beetroot pie with carob sauce

    We hereby inform you that we cannot guarantee that the meals served during this event are free of substances that may cause some type of allergy or food intolerance.

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  • Visita a l’hort del Palau Foronda
    Visit to the Palau Foronda allotment
    October 18th - 11.00 H
    Palau Foronda, àtic
    Visit / Tour

    Visit to the new “roof terrace allotment”, located at Palau Foronda, officially opened in March 2021 and run by people with disabilities. The project will be presented directly by the people with disabilities taking part in it.
    The “Roof terrace allotment” project is a Barcelona City Council initiative that promotes urban agriculture and local provision cultivation, making the most of unused spaces in the city’s urban centre (roof terraces and balconies in municipal facilities). Vegetables are cultivated there by associations of people with disabilities and offered to organisations working with people at risk of exclusion.
     

  • Food Tech 3.0 Programa d’Acceleració: BCN Showcase
    Food Tech 3.0 Acceleration Programme: BCN Showcase
    October 18th from 15.30 to 19.00 H
    Palo Alto Foundation
    Talk

    Pecha Kucha presentation and debate on improving food tech innovations that work for collective action and citizens.

  • How can digitalisation contribute to sustainable food?
    October 18th from 16.00 to 17.30 H
    Videoconference
    Talk

    Is it possible to scale agro-ecological projects without being digitalised? This session, organised by the MatchImpulsa programme, aims to reflect on the promotion of new digital marketing channels since Covid-19 and the impact that digitalisation has on the scalability of sustainable business models and the transformation of the food model.