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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  • 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

     

     

  • Exposició temporal “Alimentar Barcelona. Ciutat, proveïment i salut”
    Temporary exhibition “Feeding Barcelona. City, supply and health”
    October 15th - 24th
    Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA), Saló del Tinell
    Exhibition

    Feeding the population has always been a concern for cities. It has been a decisive factor in their relationship with surrounding territories, in the centuries-long evolution of technologies for obtaining food produce and in the conditions under which men and women have been able to feed themselves and stay alive.
    From the outset, one of the main tasks of the Consell de Cent, the Barcelona municipal institution created in 1249, was to guarantee food supplies and ensure food safety. Since then, the city's government has strived to guarantee good quality food supplies, because it has been directly responsible for them, provided support in doing so or has sought alternatives to the insufficient actions of other authorities.  
    The municipal government's intervention continues today, with Mercabarna, Barcelona and the Western Mediterranean's great food store, and the city's network of municipal markets. This long history of decisive municipal involvement in the food supply chain is historically unique to Barcelona, with no similar situation in most other European cities.   
    The exhibition is open from 15 October 2021 to 15 October 2022.

  • Vanesa Muela “de Raíz”. Traditional music
    October 16th - 13.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Show

    Vanesa Muela is a singer and multi-instrumentalist who is directly influenced by tradition, the roots and purity of music from other times. In every concert, she is able to showcase the soul of traditional songs that she learnt directly from elderly people. She transmits the magic, energy and feeling of popular music like no other; the ancestral wisdom that she is able to share with the audience i a fun, amenable and interesting way. Vanesa will take you on a journey through the melodies of jotas, fandangos, siguidillas, ligeros, agarraos, charradas and corridos, to the sound of tambourines, petxinas, spoons, guitars, sieves, etc.

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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  • 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.

     

  • Guided tours for discovering edible plants: Ciutat Vella
    October 18th - 17.30 H
    Parc de la Ciutadella - Passeig de Pujades amb Passeig Lluís Companys
    Visit / Tour

    A walk for discovering the many wild plants we have close to home that we were unfamiliar with and the varied possible uses of which we could never have imagined. We’ll learn how to identify them, we’ll smell and taste them and discover the uses each of the species has inside and outside the kitchen.

  • Guided tours for discovering edible plants: Horta-Guinardó
    October 19th - 17.30 H
    Jardins Pla i Armengol
    Visit / Tour

    A walk for discovering the many wild plants we have close to home that we were unfamiliar with and the varied possible uses of which we could never have imagined. We’ll learn how to identify them, we’ll smell and taste them and discover the uses each of the species has inside and outside the kitchen.

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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  • Agricultura i alimentació als espais metropolitans: el Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat
    Agriculture and food in metropolitan areas: The Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park
    October 17th - 11.30 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Talk

    Explanation of the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park as a metropolitan agricultural area that produces food locally for the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. A public-private entity that aims to preserve the farmland and encourage the development of a professional agriculture that ensures the supply of fruits and vegetables to local markets and the viability of farms. During the talk we will discuss projects like the Parc Agrari farmers markets, the Producte Fresc del Parc Agrari brand, and the creation of a “test” area to encourage young people to get involved in farming.   

     

  • Ramats de Foc
    Ramats de Foc (Herds of fire)
    October 17th - 12.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Talk

    Ramats de Foc is a prescribed-silvopasture project aimed at boosting the contribution of livestock in fire-risk management through pasture in strategic forest areas.

    Prescribed silvopasture is the practice of extensive livestock feeding following established a priori guidelines and goals to achieve a type of fire-resistant forest mass and Ramats de Foc is an initiative to promote this work, and help to extend it through our forests and bring it added value.

    The project also aims to promote continuity of livestock activity in the region, through its twofold food and landscaping work, and to strengthen the ties between shepherds and local butchers.

    By promoting the consumption of livestock animals that manage our forests, the aim is to encourage a change of perception in society so people understand how a certain kind of regional management will enable protection against the big fires that cause the most damage and that initiatives as simple as consuming local livestock are already helping to maintain fire-adapted landscapes.

     

  • Diàleg entre Nahuel Levaggi i Aitor Urkiola
    Dialogue between Nahuel Levaggi and Carles Soler
    October 17th - 12.30 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Talk

    Alternatives from the global south to the impact of our unsustainable food system: the case of the Mercado Central del AMBA (Buenos Aires metropolitan area).

    The activity, which is aimed at all members of the public, is part of the agreement for implementing the “Barcelona menja bé i just” project.

     

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  • Visita a Can Calopa amb tast de vins periurbans
    Visit to Can Calopa with a tasting of periurban wines
    October 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23th and 24th from 12.30 to 14.00 H
    Masia Can Calopa de Dalt
    Visit / Tour

    This activity is an adapted version of the classic visit ‘The Winery and the Vineyard’ offered at Can Calopa de Dalt. In this case, the activity offers a special tasting of wines from periurban projects managed by L’Olivera: Vinyes de Barcelona (from the Finca de Can Calopa de Dalt, in Collserola) and Arraona Blanc i Negre (from the estate at Can Gambús, in the Sabadell Agricultural Park).

     

  • AtmosTerra sessions: ploughing the sky, recarbonising the sun
    October 16th from 9.00 to 18.00 H / October 17th from 9.00 to 14.00 H
    Institute of Catalan Studies, Sala Prat de la Riba
    Round table

    A forum for agriculture, livestock farming, science and the academic world, as well as consumers, where people can meet, debate and establish a framework for cooperation which favours a transition towards resilient, healthy, fair and diversified food systems.
    A place where people can work on how to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequestrate carbon in food systems in order to counter and adapt to climate change.

     

     

     

  • Exhibition of organisations at the La Rambla kiosks
    October 16th, 17th, 23th and 24th from 10.30 to 19.00 H
    La Rambla Kiosk (near Mercat de la Boqueria)
    Exhibition

    Are you aware of the entities and other organisations that promote and work to make sustainable, fair and healthy food more accessible in Barcelona? Do you know who promotes this in your neighbourhood and what initiatives they organise? Do you need help putting it into practice? Would you like to get involved?

    Come along to the kiosks on La Rambla and find out for yourself! Check the grid to see the times for each organisation. We will be near Mercat de la Boqueria.