The Kitchen School with Mescladís | Activity
We invite you to meet mixed upa project that’s much more than just a restaurant: a community model in which good food is the excuse to cook up ways of living together. Mescladís works for social justice and the right to migrate decently, with the aim of turning the hospitality industry into a place for education, inclusive employment and sustainability.
This session takes a special interest in what Mescladís has to say and has learned from the struggle to win the space for the Pou de la Figuera neighborhood community center. Together with Martin Habiaguefounder and director of Mescladís, we’ll find out at first hand about its history of resistance. Habiague will be telling us about the mobilization of local residents, backed by 9,000 signatures, that made it possible to recover the premises in Pou de la Figuera. This experience of struggle became a political learning processas it involved community struggle in alliance with institutional bodies and showed that food can be a major socio-cultural tool for transforming an area.
Habiague will explain the interesting history of Mecladís, which has managed to find a place for itself in the Free Theater and the Bostik Shipamong other arts sold. He will also be discussing the different programs that connect the school and pupils of Mecladís with the arts schedules and programs of the Teatre Lliure; for example, Flavor and Art, which generates a creative, critical reading with culinary propositions that bring together the performing arts and the palate.
We’ll finish off with a collective hack of a recipe from the museum restaurant menu. We’ll approach it from a transformational point of view to imagine how a menu can at the same time be an act of resistance, a cultural form of expression and a driver of social justice. How can we connect the artistic content and expression in the museum with the dish that we have cooked and its culinary environment?
Come along and cook up ideas together, and have an afternoon snack involving a proposal for the present that has yet to arrive.
The MACBA Kitchen is a learning space led by artist Marina Monsonís.
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Marina Monsonís is a visual artist who works with hybrid and heterogeneous processes of social transformation rooted in territories, in collective, community and pedagogical projects that relate marine sciences, place-based design, gastronomy, graffiti, radical geography, ethnography and critical, oral and gestural memory. She works on projects that connect the kitchen with political, critical, social and transgenerational aspects to create debates and transmit knowledge about the complexities and conflicts that inhabit km 0. She is interested in the coexistence of radical spaces where people become constellated in research, techniques, local and global knowledge, old and emerging, maintaining a generous and enriching ecosystem, where joy, exchange and harmony dominate the table. She has directed The Kitchen at MACBA since it began in November 2018.
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