Sustainable Food Citizen Week

 

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

Waste vs Good use

Urban rurality and biodiversity

Ecological footprint

Proximity

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Gastronomic heritage

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  • Imatge pregó coral
    Inauguration of Sustainable Food Citizen Week. Changing the world by eating
    October 14th - 19.30 H
    Plaça de Sant Jaume
    Show

    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

     

     

  • Exposició temporal “Alimentar Barcelona. Ciutat, proveïment i salut”
    Temporary exhibition “Feeding Barcelona. City, supply and health”
    October 15th - 24th
    Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA), Saló del Tinell
    Exhibition

    Feeding the population has always been a concern for cities. It has been a decisive factor in their relationship with surrounding territories, in the centuries-long evolution of technologies for obtaining food produce and in the conditions under which men and women have been able to feed themselves and stay alive.
    From the outset, one of the main tasks of the Consell de Cent, the Barcelona municipal institution created in 1249, was to guarantee food supplies and ensure food safety. Since then, the city's government has strived to guarantee good quality food supplies, because it has been directly responsible for them, provided support in doing so or has sought alternatives to the insufficient actions of other authorities.  
    The municipal government's intervention continues today, with Mercabarna, Barcelona and the Western Mediterranean's great food store, and the city's network of municipal markets. This long history of decisive municipal involvement in the food supply chain is historically unique to Barcelona, with no similar situation in most other European cities.   
    The exhibition is open from 15 October 2021 to 15 October 2022.

  • Vanesa Muela “de Raíz”. Traditional music
    October 16th - 13.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Show

    Vanesa Muela is a singer and multi-instrumentalist who is directly influenced by tradition, the roots and purity of music from other times. In every concert, she is able to showcase the soul of traditional songs that she learnt directly from elderly people. She transmits the magic, energy and feeling of popular music like no other; the ancestral wisdom that she is able to share with the audience i a fun, amenable and interesting way. Vanesa will take you on a journey through the melodies of jotas, fandangos, siguidillas, ligeros, agarraos, charradas and corridos, to the sound of tambourines, petxinas, spoons, guitars, sieves, etc.

Waste vs Good use

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  • Taller de vaixelles comestibles
    Edible crockery workshop. How can we get children to eat fruit and vegetables in a fun, and light-hearted way?
    October 16th - 10.00 H / 11.00 H / 12.00 h / 13.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Workshop

    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.

  • recuperem el valor dels aliments
    Culinary experience: recovering the value of food products
    October 16 - 14.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Culinary 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.

  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

    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

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  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

    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.

     

  • Guided tours for discovering edible plants: Ciutat Vella
    October 18th - 17.30 H
    Parc de la Ciutadella - Passeig de Pujades amb Passeig Lluís Companys
    Visit / Tour

    A walk for discovering the many wild plants we have close to home that we were unfamiliar with and the varied possible uses of which we could never have imagined. We’ll learn how to identify them, we’ll smell and taste them and discover the uses each of the species has inside and outside the kitchen.

  • Guided tours for discovering edible plants: Horta-Guinardó
    October 19th - 17.30 H
    Jardins Pla i Armengol
    Visit / Tour

    A walk for discovering the many wild plants we have close to home that we were unfamiliar with and the varied possible uses of which we could never have imagined. We’ll learn how to identify them, we’ll smell and taste them and discover the uses each of the species has inside and outside the kitchen.

Ecological footprint

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  • Kiss the Ground (a documentary by Josh Tickell, 2020).
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Screening

    Recovering the earth’s natural capacity to store carbon and sustain life could be one of the most effective ways to combat climate change.
    Therefore, it is necessary to recompose all the stages of this complex framework, a task that many people are promoting through different initiatives around the world. This documentary shows us that the answers to environmental problems lie in nature, literally beneath our feet.

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  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food
    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

    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.

     

  • Food for change (a documentary by Benoît Bringer, 2019)
    October 18th - 22.00 H (variable frequency programming betevé)
    Betevé broadcasting
    Documentary film season

    Our plate is our most powerful tool to fight global warming and protect the planet. Our diet currently plays a very significant role in the dangers that threaten our planet. But there is hope. Investigative journalist Benoît Bringer travels the world looking for men and women who are producing a new food model, one that is respectful of both humanity and nature. This documentary gives us hope and shows us how each of us can be an agent of change and develop recipes for an economically viable food transition.

    This activity is part of the Betevé documentary film series that includes the films Fermentación espontánea, Taste the waste, Food for change and Il mare piange.

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Proximity

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  • Horta
    Horta (vegetable garden)
    October 16th - 12.30 H and 17.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Show

    Horta is a show that recuperates values rooted in the earth and the most genuine ancestral customs, bringing them up to date and adapting them to the interests and knowledge of younger children. An itinerant journey through various transformed theatrical spaces in Horta, where the senses and the children are the protagonists: touching the earth, listening to and singing songs, discovering stories and old objects and smelling herbs.

    Joana and Esther, the two stars of this story, have everything ready: this is the time to wake the earth up and start the cycle, as they were shown by their granddad Vicent and their grandma Maria.
    An experience that combines the power of oral narration with the magic and poetry of theatrical and performance resources. Through our senses, we discover what Horta is, with tenderness and emotion, but above all, with humour, entertainment and education.

    The countryside is part of our tradition and our future and... Who knows, the children in the audience today may become the great agronomists of the future!

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  • Local fish, fishermen from Barcelona. How to consume local fish in a sustainable and responsible way
    October 17th - 11.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Talk

    Talk presenting local fish consumption projects such as La Platgeta, which will provide the keys to consuming fish in a healthy, fair, sustainable and responsible way.

  • Experiència gastronòmica: menú degustació amb aliments ecològics i de temporada i proximitat
    Culinary experience: a tasting menu with ecological, local and seasonal food
    October 17th - 14.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Culinary experience

    Would you like to taste a menu put together by healthy, sustainable groups? Let yourself be seduced by their culinary proposals. Come, taste, and become part of the change.

    When designing the menu, we took the following into account:

    • The Mediterranean diet as the basis for the project: seasonal vegetables, legumes and fish.
    • The food offered to us by the producers of local, seasonal ecological produce.
    • The dishes have been designed with culinary combinations, in order to enjoy the territory's food, produced using healthy culinary techniques.

    The menu is cooked by eighteen chefs who belong to the network; we are from Catalonia, Valencia, Aragon, Madrid, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and Galicia.
    We serve the menu accompanied by the producers who supplied the vegetables, legumes, oil, wine and fish. We will also be accompanied by a manager of short-circuit marketing, a nutritionist and an educator; we would like you to meet all of the people who make the change of model possible in our groups, a strategic sector for furthering this change in the food model.

    Menu

    • Cream of sweet potato with hen-of-the-wood mushrooms
    • Raw vegetable salad with pomegranate and orange vinaigrette
    • Chickpea hamburger with spinach and young garlic sauce
    • Beetroot pie with carob sauce

    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.

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  • Fem crema de garrofa, la xocolata de la Mediterrània
    Making carob cream, the Mediterranean “chocolate”
    October 20th from 18.00 to 20.00 H
    Aula Ambiental Bosc Turull
    Workshop

    We’ll take a stroll in the Bosc Turull forest to take a look at the carob trees and find out more about them. And we’ll be collecting a handful of the fruit itself to make carob “chocolate”, a healthy, seasonal alternative to cacao that’s locally sourced.
    The activity will begin at the Bosc Turull Environmental Classroom, and end at the Can Carol Neighbourhood Centre.

  • The recipe that changes the world
    October 20th - 18.30 H
    Espai Consum Responsable
    Workshop

    By means of a simulated cooking competition, the participants in this activity discover the environmental impact of everything we eat. Food products can generate many impacts, depending on where they come from, how they are made and how they are packaged. Within the framework of Barcelona, World Capital of Sustainable Food, the workshop will be placing emphasis on the waste produced in kitchens and how to food shop consciously. Participants will be encouraged to create the most sustainable recipe possible. Together, they will propose and seek responsible consumption alternatives in people’s diets.

    The general public and families (children aged 10 and over).

  • Paisatges alimentaris del Poble-sec
    Food landscapes Poble-sec
    October 20th from 19.00 to 21.00 H
    Centre Cívic El Sortidor
    Visit / Tour

    Find out about Barcelona’s distinctive shops that first opened their doors many years ago (shops selling jars of cooked vegetables, specialising in salt cod, or vermouth, etc.), the conflict between different retail models and the changes brought about by the opening of shops selling products from other culinary cultures.