Please note: this event will be held in person at The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse and is open to BPOC only.
This is a creative and political space for anyone wanting to contribute to the global food sovereignty movement. You might be a BPOC landworker, grower, community organiser, artist, zine-maker, cultural worker, or simply just interested.
Together we’ll reflect on the legacy of food sovereignty organising and co-create demands to feed into Nyéléni 2025, the next global forum in Sri Lanka, where food producers, Indigenous peoples, landworkers and communities come together to define just and sustainable food systems.
The session will be led by Dee Woods — food actionist, Afroecologist, and earth wisdom keeper. Dee works across human rights, food sovereignty, agroecology, policy, and community organising, and is deeply involved in movements for just and sustainable food systems.
Expect:
🎶 ambient music
🍲 good food
🕯 ritual and generative somatics
💬 trauma-informed check-ins
✍🏽 zine making and protest art
We’ll explore:
🌾 the radical roots of food justice
🌾 the vision of A People’s Food Policy for transformational change in the UK
🌾 collective demands for global food sovereignty
This is a space to connect, create, and contribute to building food sovereignty from the ground up. You don’t have to have any prior knowledge, just come as you are.
CW: Violence including structural and state, trauma of enslavement and its legacies in the context of intersectionality, reparations, climate and racial justice.
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About the facilitator:
Food action~ist /Afroecologist\earth wisdom keeper, Dee Woods is an award winning food system leader. A passionate knowledge broker, ideator, pollinator and weaver who advocates for good food for all and a just food system. Her work meets at the nexus of human rights, food sovereignty, agroecology, community, policy, decolonial research, reparations, culture, climate and social justice.
Dee wears many headwraps including being a director and the food justice policy coordinator of the Landworkers Alliance, a member of the LION collective and co-founder of the African and Caribbean Heritage Food Network and Granville Community Kitchen.
Access information for this event:
There will be 20 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, attendees will participate in: whole group discussions / hands on activities / eating / drinking / music
This event will take place in The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse. For full access information visit The Hidden Gardens’ website: thehiddengardens.org.uk/explore/visit.
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