How Recipes Make Our Histories
Armenian Institute & FINDING LARGE MONUMENTS TO BE DESTROYED
25 Cheniston Gardens - London W8 6TG
A table full of ingredients. A room full of voices. Two different landscapes soaked in a past full of defiance and resistance. Two different women shaped by a world they did not want to inherit.
Armenians have their Dolmas. The Poles have their Gołąbki. This workshop sets out to explore the culinary, historical and cultural parallels between Poland and Armenia whilst hoping to build a community of migrant voices that understand that so often our past shapes the present and informs…what we store in our kitchen cupboards.
This creative workshop is held in collaboration with FINDING LARGE MONUMENTS TO BE DESTROYED, a theatre installation piece created by Polish director Nastazja Domaradzka and British Armenian writer Abi Zakarian. Produced by Claire Gilbert, this piece imagines the meeting between the two artists’ grandmothers, whose lives have been shaped by invasions, war and Western interference. The piece travels throughout the UK, and hopefully beyond, to create a community held together by shared history as well as future hopes.
Join us for an exciting creative workshop where you’ll be involved in helping Nastazja and Abi inform the shape of the theatre installation piece. Exercises and prompts will draw out your personal stories and memories to create individual pieces of art to explore and share.
If attending please bring with you:
· A favourite recipe (written, you don’t need to prepare it!)
· An old family photograph (print or digital)
Length: 2 hours
Delivered by: Nastazja Domaradzka & Abi Zakarian
Produced by Claire Gilbert
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