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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  • A la cuina, #jonollenço! #AllFoodMatters
    ‘A la cuina, #jonollenço!’ #AllFoodMatters. Better food use and cooking
    October 22nd - 18.00 H
    Betevé broadcasting
    Televised cooking workshop

    A chef and an expert in better food use provide advice and useful tips for making the best use of food in cooking. Using the preparation of various recipes as a common thread, the programme introduces concepts that show the importance of sustainable, healthy food and ideas that help to prevent food waste, through everyday consumer and cooking habits.

Urban rurality and biodiversity

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  • Flors i abelles. La vida en joc
    Flowers and bees. Life on the line
    October 16 at 13:40 h
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Talk

    Bees are one of the most important, and unknown, groups of pollinators. The aim of this talk is to showcase the life of bees, and also serve as an opportunity to understand the role that these insects play, together with the hosts, the plants, in the ecological balance of the planet. The reality is that humanity is facing a disturbing problem: the decline of bees. It is a subject that is being talked about more and more, and that we cannot overlook, as the Museum of Natural Sciences. The causes are numerous, and closely linked to the long litany of changes to the environment prompted by human activity. Now is the time for us to understand what we have done wrong and prepare a guide of best practices that can be used to recover the biodiversity that has been lost.

  • Mandala d’agricultura urbana
    Urban agriculture mandala
    October 16th - 16.30 H
    Plaça Reial
    Talk

    The dynamics of this activity involve a mandala. We draw conclusions on how urban agriculture has fared this year, where we have made progress and where not, where we are headed and the importance of agriculture within the city, with the participation of various people connected to urban agriculture and others who will help us to connect with our bodies.
    This is an open, participative activity where the audience can contribute their wishes and materials to the mandala. Ritual for closing and opening the year, as it has been a busy one in urban agriculture.

     

  • Cinturó agrari metropolità: quan la ciutat es fa responsable del que menja
    Metropolitan agricultural belt: when the city takes responsibility for what it eats
    October 16th - 17.30 H
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Round table

    The Metropolitan agricultural belt is the on-site embodiment of the need (exacerbated by climate change and the biodiversity crisis) for healthy, wholesome and sustainable local supplies. It starts in the Metropolitan Area and includes the entire Metropolitan Region: it has a bottom-up structure, based on the view, already accepted by some city councils, that we need to preserve or create an agricultural belt around every municipality. We are therefore talking about a belt of belts.

    To make this possible, the two main challenges we face are access to production resources and guaranteed fair prices. And in addition to this demand for “minimum prices for food and maximum prices for land”, there is the vital importance of adopting large-scale healthy, mitigating and regenerative agronomic practices. This means that financial aid for farmers has to involve cross compliance, but also has to be available to everyone, not just the big producers.

     

Ecological footprint

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  • Kiss the Ground (a documentary by Josh Tickell, 2020).
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Screening

    Recovering the earth’s natural capacity to store carbon and sustain life could be one of the most effective ways to combat climate change.
    Therefore, it is necessary to recompose all the stages of this complex framework, a task that many people are promoting through different initiatives around the world. This documentary shows us that the answers to environmental problems lie in nature, literally beneath our feet.

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  • 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.

     

  • Food for change (a documentary by Benoît Bringer, 2019)
    October 18th - 22.00 H (variable frequency programming betevé)
    Betevé broadcasting
    Documentary film season

    Our plate is our most powerful tool to fight global warming and protect the planet. Our diet currently plays a very significant role in the dangers that threaten our planet. But there is hope. Investigative journalist Benoît Bringer travels the world looking for men and women who are producing a new food model, one that is respectful of both humanity and nature. This documentary gives us hope and shows us how each of us can be an agent of change and develop recipes for an economically viable food transition.

    This activity is part of the Betevé documentary film series that includes the films Fermentación espontánea, Taste the waste, Food for change and Il mare piange.

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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.