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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  • Imatge pregó coral
    Inauguration of Sustainable Food Citizen Week. Changing the world by eating
    October 14th - 19.30 H
    Plaça de Sant Jaume
    Show

    The start off the week will be a chorus, musical, and participative. Having their say will be the real heroes of sustainable food, those involved in the food cycle: the fishermen, drivers, chefs, farmers, ranchers, market vendors. The speech will be intertwined with the large mechanical orchestra of Cabo San Roque, distributed in the form of a sound mural in front of the City Hall, along with the active participation of the public, in a collective musical creation composed especially for the occasion. A show that highlights all the participants behind the food supply network and gives them a voice.

    • Scenography and musical composition: Cabo San Roque
    • Stage direction and coordination: Edi Pou
    • Idea and concept: Virginia Angulo / Martín Garber

     

     

  • Creem xarxes d’aprofitament alimentari als barris
    Let’s create better food use networks in the city's neighbourhoods. Presentation of the Guide for creating a community better food use network
    October 16 at 11:00h
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Talk

    Presentation of the guide that provides readers with ideas, examples and lines of action for initiating better food-use actions in the city's neighbourhoods, either in the form of food networks, better food use meals or other formats.
    Guide authors: Espai Ambiental Cooperativa and Associació Cuchara. Published by Barcelona City Council.

  • Descobreix el Pont Alimentari
    Discover the Pont Alimentari [Food Bridge]. Less waste, more solidarity
    October 16th - 11.30 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Talk

    Presentation of the Pont Alimentari [Food Bridge] project, promoted by Rezero and the Resources Bank Foundation since 2015, with the aim of reducing food waste in the retail, catering and restaurant food-distribution sector, creating a network for interaction and better food use among donor companies and recipient organisations supporting vulnerable groups.

Urban rurality and biodiversity

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  • Creació i gestió d’un banc de llavors
    Creation and management of a seed bank. Everyone can have their own seed bank
    October 16th - 10.00 H
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Workshop

    What needs to be taken into account when creating and managing your own seed bank at home or in an allotment. How to carry out the natural selection of seeds, how to conserve them and manage them.  
    Creating a seed bank is an initiative that reinforces food sovereignty. Recovering seeds is an act of empowerment, in order to stop depending on agro-industrial lobbies.
    A seed bank helps to recover traditional seeds and increase the biodiversity which is being lost year after year. This is an educational activity to highlight the great work being done by farmers and how this contributes to a healthy, sustainable diet in our homes.

     

     

  • Dinar silvestre amb viatge gastronòmic
    Culinary experience: wild lunch and culinary journey
    October 16 at 14:30h
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Culinary experience

    A guided meal to discover how cooking based on local produce and edible wild plants is good, fun and also essential. We explain the story behind each of these dishes, how they were made, the characteristics of their ingredients, how the species used were traditionally employed, and their potential in the kitchen (and the countryside) today.

    The wild plants are the stars of each dish. We begin by explaining the plants hidden in the wild-plant salad with pine syrup, followed by a tasting session of savoury coca cakes using vegetables of traditional agricultural varieties (pumpkins, spinach, onions, etc.), wild plants (purslane, white goosefoot, sow thistles, etc.) and locally-produced cheese. We will end with a tasting session of sweet coca cakes (carob brownie with wood calamint, almond cake with satureja and apple crumble with lemon verbena), accompanied by a home-made ratafia wine or elder and blackberry syrup for the younger participants.

    The meal is suitable for vegetarians.

    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.

  • Transhumance
    October 17th - 17.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Show

    Transhumance is the seasonal migration of herds in search of pasture land wherever it may be depending on the time of year: pasture land in the mountains in summer and on the plain in winter.

    And so are our shepherds, they lead the flock where the public is gathered to enjoy the street theatre. Shepherds, goats and our dog are the main characters. But maybe you will also end up being a protagonist. Do you know how to milk? And how do you do as a wolf?

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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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  • Fem crema de garrofa, la xocolata de la Mediterrània
    Making carob cream, the Mediterranean “chocolate”
    October 20th from 18.00 to 20.00 H
    Aula Ambiental Bosc Turull
    Workshop

    We’ll take a stroll in the Bosc Turull forest to take a look at the carob trees and find out more about them. And we’ll be collecting a handful of the fruit itself to make carob “chocolate”, a healthy, seasonal alternative to cacao that’s locally sourced.
    The activity will begin at the Bosc Turull Environmental Classroom, and end at the Can Carol Neighbourhood Centre.

  • The recipe that changes the world
    October 20th - 18.30 H
    Espai Consum Responsable
    Workshop

    By means of a simulated cooking competition, the participants in this activity discover the environmental impact of everything we eat. Food products can generate many impacts, depending on where they come from, how they are made and how they are packaged. Within the framework of Barcelona, World Capital of Sustainable Food, the workshop will be placing emphasis on the waste produced in kitchens and how to food shop consciously. Participants will be encouraged to create the most sustainable recipe possible. Together, they will propose and seek responsible consumption alternatives in people’s diets.

    The general public and families (children aged 10 and over).

  • Paisatges alimentaris del Poble-sec
    Food landscapes Poble-sec
    October 20th from 19.00 to 21.00 H
    Centre Cívic El Sortidor
    Visit / Tour

    Find out about Barcelona’s distinctive shops that first opened their doors many years ago (shops selling jars of cooked vegetables, specialising in salt cod, or vermouth, etc.), the conflict between different retail models and the changes brought about by the opening of shops selling products from other culinary cultures.