In this programme you will find practical ways for moving towards a diet that includes habits which improve quality of life for ourselves and the people around us.
You learn how this affects our decisions, how we choose what we buy and where we buy it, all in a cheerful, fun and creative way.
We discover how to improve our surroundings and our inner selves, in order to feel full of life.
Our food choices have an impact on the environment; we review various diets (carnivorous, omnivorous and vegetarian) and finally focus on the plant-based diet.
Sustainable Food Citizen Week
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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
- October 18th - 18.00 HBetevé broadcastingTelevised cooking workshop
- October 19th - 18.00 HBetevé broadcastingTelevised cooking workshop
How can you adapt sustainable food to healthy living?
Batch cooking consists in cooking for the whole family and investing a little time so you can make nutritious everyday meals, at home and for your lunch box.
BREAKFAST: habits as simple as a good glass of water, with sea water and lemon. Breakfasts such as shakes or smoothies, which you can warm up in winter. You will discover recipes such as rice pudding and pear, quality-bread sandwiches and an omelette made from organic eggs.
LUNCH: important notions on how to structure a dish with different groups of foods. A dish is not the same for a teenager as a middle-aged person. You can cook the same for all the family but put in what each person needs. You should always add vegetables in season, wholemeal carbohydrates, some raw vegetables, sprouted and fermented foods, etc. You will discover recipes such as baked pumpkin with curry; lentils cooked with adobo, sprouted ... and seeds; chickpeas with prawns; wholemeal rice with mushrooms; and lettuce head salad with carrot, olives and chopped chives. Wholemeal pasta with courgettes, mushrooms, squid with carrot and beetroot.
EVENING MEAL: an evening meal or supper should be light and eaten as early as possible. You will discover recipes such as pumpkin, sweet potato and oatmeal soup; vegetable pudding with carrot and broccoli; fish soup with noodles, and grilled fish in a sauce.
- October 20th - 18.00 HBetevé broadcastingTelevised cooking workshop
Getting children away from processed food as much as possible.
At home, we can organise menus very quickly, using fresh and seasonal local produce.
Not forgetting breakfasts and snacks and their natural desire for sweet food; we offer some great solutions.
Waste vs Good use
- October 16th - 10.00 H / 11.00 H / 12.00 h / 13.00 HParc de la BarcelonetaWorkshop
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. - October 16 - 14.00 HParc de la BarcelonetaCulinary 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.
- October 17th - 20.00 HPlaça ReialShow
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
- October 16th - 10.00 HJardí dels TarongersWorkshop
What needs to be taken into account when creating and managing your own seed bank at home or in an allotment. How to carry out the natural selection of seeds, how to conserve them and manage them.
Creating a seed bank is an initiative that reinforces food sovereignty. Recovering seeds is an act of empowerment, in order to stop depending on agro-industrial lobbies.
A seed bank helps to recover traditional seeds and increase the biodiversity which is being lost year after year. This is an educational activity to highlight the great work being done by farmers and how this contributes to a healthy, sustainable diet in our homes. - October 16 at 14:30hJardí dels TarongersCulinary experience
A guided meal to discover how cooking based on local produce and edible wild plants is good, fun and also essential. We explain the story behind each of these dishes, how they were made, the characteristics of their ingredients, how the species used were traditionally employed, and their potential in the kitchen (and the countryside) today.
The wild plants are the stars of each dish. We begin by explaining the plants hidden in the wild-plant salad with pine syrup, followed by a tasting session of savoury coca cakes using vegetables of traditional agricultural varieties (pumpkins, spinach, onions, etc.), wild plants (purslane, white goosefoot, sow thistles, etc.) and locally-produced cheese. We will end with a tasting session of sweet coca cakes (carob brownie with wood calamint, almond cake with satureja and apple crumble with lemon verbena), accompanied by a home-made ratafia wine or elder and blackberry syrup for the younger participants.
The meal is suitable for vegetarians.
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.
- October 17th - 17.00 HParc de la BarcelonetaShow
Transhumance is the seasonal migration of herds in search of pasture land wherever it may be depending on the time of year: pasture land in the mountains in summer and on the plain in winter.
And so are our shepherds, they lead the flock where the public is gathered to enjoy the street theatre. Shepherds, goats and our dog are the main characters. But maybe you will also end up being a protagonist. Do you know how to milk? And how do you do as a wolf?
Ecological footprint
- October 16th - 18.00 HPlaça ReialTalk
Discussion on unsustainable fishing and its impact. What are the consequences of not fishing in our seas? We’ll be meeting up to discuss the impact that international fishing agreements are having and the advantages to local fishing. We will also find out how West Africa's coastal populations are facing over-exploitation of their maritime resources and what local-fish initiatives we have in Barcelona.
- October 17th - 11.00 H (Plaça del Rei) and October 23th - 10.00 H (Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, next to the Disseny HUB BarcelonaPlaça del Rei, Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, next to the Disseny HUB BarcelonaWorkshop
After receiving a brief introduction on climate change and its connection with our food system, everyone attending will be able to calculate the environmental footprint their food generates.
- October 17th - 12.00 HPlaça del ReiWorkshop
A workshop on low energy consumption cooking, to provide ideas and tips for cooking while using as little energy as possible. Tackling the problem in a practical way, we encourage reflection on better food-use cooking and healthy, sustainable food. The workshop aims to provide participants with viable tools for furthering their commitment to reducing the environmental impact of their food, opting for simple, but transformative, solutions. The workshop's objective, through various demonstrations as well as practical and theoretical advice, is to apply this in everyday life. It also fosters the culture of better food use and a complete, balanced diet. The workshop includes an explanation from an expert and the live preparation of various recipes.
Food and social rights
- October 15th - 20.00 HPlaça ReialRadio programme
The best radio team will carry out a live program that you cannot miss. Next Friday, October 15, on the occasion of Sustainable Food Week, they will interview different people with a lot to say in the world of food, with transforming projects of the current food system and focused on change. There will also be live music by rapper Anier. See you on October 15 at 8:00 p.m. in the Plaza Real in Barcelona. (In case of being left without an invitation, do not hesitate to come and occupy the chair that some soulless person has left free). Carne Cruda is an independent and alternative program financed by its listeners, which deals with current affairs and social interest, which promotes cooperation and the fact of freely sharing culture.
- October 17th - 14.30 HJardí dels TarongersCulinary experience
Through the preparation of typical Senegalese dishes, we explain the situation of that country's fishing industry, and emphasise the need to create other models of responsible consumerism in regard to the environment and people.
The menu will be:
- 2 wraps (vegetables or chicken)
- Rice
- Juice(Bissap o Ginger)
- 2 begnesWe 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.
- October 17th - 18.00 HJardí dels TarongersTalk
Presentation of the Alimenta project, which aims to build a new support model based on a public-social partnership: cooperation and networking between Barcelona City Council, social entities, and the food business network in the city.
Proximity
- 14-24 October, all daySustainable Food Week Social Media, Screens of the muncipal marketsExhibition
In order to spark an interest in local and seasonal cuisine among the younger generations, an activity designed for kids was carried out, which consisted of creating a piece of artwork about the origins of food.
Through a fun and creative activity, based on the collage technique, boys and girls from the Barcelona Metropolitan Area created a set of landscapes from the ingredients used to make different recipes. A collective imaginary, which introduced young children, in a playful, experimental and creative way, to the knowledge about our gastronomic culture, and at the same time, taught them the value of a healthy and sustainable diet.
The art work can be seen on the Sustainable Food Week social media and also on the different screens set up at the different municipal markets.
- Idea and concept: curation team for the Sustainable Food Citizen Week.
- With the collaboration of Marta de los Pájaros and Fundesplai.
- October 14th - 19.30 HPlaça de Sant JaumeShow
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
- October 16th from 13.00 to 14.00 HPlaça ReialShow
Agroecology and family circus show.
“The land is full of plastic and GMOs and agrochemicals are threatening us. Luckily, we have an endangered species called Pagès… ”
More week
- October 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23th and 24th from 12.30 to 14.00 HMasia Can Calopa de DaltVisit / 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).
- October 16th from 9.00 to 18.00 H / October 17th from 9.00 to 14.00 HInstitute of Catalan Studies, Sala Prat de la RibaRound 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. - October 16th, 17th, 23th and 24th from 10.30 to 19.00 HLa 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.
