Amy Lawrence
SHARING PLATTER
Collaborative food and eating club SHARING PLATTER is a collection of gentle and experimental creative gatherings, curated for women and non-binary people of colour, centring relationships to food, identity and pleasure.
This nourishing learning and sharing space will encourage you to eat as messy or as slow as you like, and connect with new people. Expect multifaceted, alternative cooking classes, intimate presentations by artist, activists and food experts, gut workshops and slow conversations on the wider landscape that bring together food, creativity and knowledge.
Through the lens of ancestral food and eating practices that are vulnerable to political, economic and ideological pressures, SHARING PLATTER’s interventions combine the experimental with creative and tasty expressions of resistance and celebrations of identity. An ode to the ancestors encouraging connection and storytelling through food.
Of course you’ll also leave with a goodie bag including lashings of leftovers.
Programme
The full programme for the day will be announced in October 2024. Register your interest in joining us here.
About
SHARING PLATTER is a collaborative, curatorial food and eating project founded by Artist and Producer, Amy Lawrence. Amy’s creative projects across curation, visual arts, dance and performance channel her curiosity around storytelling as a surreal, archival process of shared experience within different kinds of ‘gathering’ in public spaces.
Access
- Leeds Kirkgate Market is wheelchair accessible.
- If you have any questions about access at this event, please contact yasmin@compassliveart.org.uk.
Language
‘People of Colour’ (also known as POC) is a self-identifying term. SHARING PLATTER is currently using this term and is a POC only space. We acknowledge the limitations of acronyms and terminology. We understand that not all racialised people will use this term in relation to their identity. We use POC/people of colour to include people who identify as structurally racialised including Black, Asian, Mixed-race, Multiple heritage, East, South-East Asian, West Asian, African, African-Caribbean, Caribbean, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or First Nations, and these diasporas. We use this term to identify that SHARING PLATTER is a closed space, with the aim to address and overcome systemic barriers that people face directly or indirectly based on their racial or national identities, race or perceived racial identities and/ or the colour of their skin.
This space is only for those who identify as People of Colour and women, trans women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, two-spirited, agender, intersex and gender fluid people.
Amy Lawrence and collaborators, Black Eating Club, 2022. Photo: Sophie Okonkwo, Sable Studio
