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, sustainability and the city. Historical trail
    October 16th - 12.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    Feeding the city has always been a huge challenge: guaranteeing access to the most basic component for sustaining life, to avoid deficiencies and conflicts that compromise the health and social peace of its inhabitants.
    Feeding the city has always been a political issue: the people and the institutions of Barcelona have demanded and exercised the right to intervene politically to achieve an adequate food supply in quantity and quality for the city.
    Over the centuries, the territorial scope and spatial conformation of Barcelona's food footprint have been expanded and modified according to the population that needed to be provided for and the change in the forms of cultivation, animal husbandry, and transport, as well as energy sources used to do so.
    In the 21st century, the city faces new food security challenges due to the climate emergency and the global socio-environmental crisis. To address these, it calls for and exercises new forms of food sovereignty aimed at sustainability within a fair and safe environmental space for everyone on Earth.

     

  • Cuines Barcelona
    Barcelona kitchens. From Cerdà Plan to the Catalan Women's Conference
    October 16th - 12.30 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    Kitchens are part of this city's history. Moreover, history is also made in kitchens and history infiltrates the kitchens of every city.
    From the mid 19th century to 1976, kitchens were the place where architectural, technological, propaganda and political discussions and practices occurred, while they also held the knowledge and skills that made collective subsistence possible.

     

  • Tasting session: Journey in time through food
    October 16th - 14.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Culinary experience

    This activity offers a culinary route that will take us to the past, present and future of food in Barcelona. It will be a guided tasting session for speaking about cultural exchanges, history, traditions, conceptions of sustainability over the course of time, food industrialisation and current trends. A session that will certainly amaze you, showing the contradictions not just in the food model but also in the discussions around today’s food.

    What will we be tasting?

    Pepper wine
    White wine flavoured with spices.
    It contains ginger, rose water, clove, cinnamon and honey
    Allergens: sulphides

    Flat neulas
    Medieval recipe for traditional Christmas desserts
    Contains: flour, sugar, eggs, lard, cream, milk and salt
    Allergens: egg, gluten, dairy products

    Aubergine tart
    Aubergine flan baked with cured cheese, raisins and spices.
    Allergens: dairy products

    Empedrat with cod
    Catalan recipe with Icelandic cod and French beans, tomatoes, red and green peppers, onions and black olives.
    Allergens: fish

    Potato chips
    Allergens: gluten

    Yoghurt with pomegranate
    Free-range yoghurt from the Olot area, with natural pomegranate
    Allergens: dairy products

    We would like to inform you that we are unable to guarantee that the food served at this event will be free of substances which may cause some type of food allergy or intolerance.

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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  • Food low in CO2-eq emissions. The life cycle of food and its carbon footprint
    October 17th - 13.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    Talk looking at all the most common stages of the life cycle of our food. From the farm to the table, we’ll be pondering the carbon footprint of agriculture, packaging, logistics, cooking, organic waste etc. The overall goal is to provide information for deciding on food which has a lower impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. The session will also stress the contradictions in environmental communication for consumers.  

  • Dialogue between Vandana Shiva and Esther Vivas
    17th October 13.30 h
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk

    What are the impacts of our food system on our planet? How does this affect the peasantry, our territory and the communities of the global south? What role does the food industry play? What can we do as consumers? What is the role and situation of women, who have traditionally fed the world? On all these issues, we offer you an exciting dialogue with Vandana Shiva (Indian climate activist, graduate in physics, philosopher, ecologist, feminist and author of more than twenty books and 300 articles in the world's most prestigious scientific journals) and Esther Vivas ( activist, researcher in social movements and agricultural and food policies, degree in journalism and diploma in higher studies in sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona).

  • Conflictes socioambientals del sistema alimentari a Catalunya
    Socio-environmental conflicts surrounding the food system in Catalonia
    October 17th - 17.30 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Round table

    The current industrial agri-food system generates a series of environmental conflicts that are manifested through struggles and mobilisations in response to the impact this system has on the environment and society. These conflicts are mainly associated with the defence of environmental conditions or equal access and distribution of natural resources, often occurring in production and transit areas, and ultimately affecting the regions and communities where they happen. They often reveal conflicting interests, different development paradigms, and aspects related to involvement in decision-making.

    The aim of this roundtable is to address some of the main current socio-environmental conflicts in Catalonia, arising from the food system, and to understand the causes and impacts both in Catalonia and the Global South, in order to make them visible, encourage dialogue and provide possible solutions or alternatives.

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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  • Neighbourhood resistance through food sovereignty
    October 21th - 18.00 H
    C del Rec, 27
    Talk

    Discover the evolution of the Horteras de la Ribera de Barcelona Consumer Group, seen from the experience of the producer and the consumer, with Dulu and Enric (Hort3Sols farmers) and Julien Telle (Les Horteres consumer) .

  • Activitat econòmica amb impacte: servei de càtering social i sostenible
    Economic activity with impact: social and sustainable catering service
    October 21th from 18.00 to 19.15 H
    Espai Consum Responsable
    Talk

    Discover a catering service with sustainable job placements, use of non-polluting and reusable materials and with sustainable food products. We use seasonal and local chemical-free products.

  • OMG conference
    October 21th from 18.30 to 20.30 H
    La Lleialtat Santseca
    Round table

    In this conference, we will explain how the new genetically-modified organisms work (GMO) and any resulting complications that may arise for farmers in terms of feeding the human race and how they are treated in the future, depending on how they are classified.