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Join us for an online book launch, celebrating the end of The Gathering Table, a project led by artist and chef Kawther Luay with Deveron Projects. The event will bring together project collaborators including Kawther Luay, Fionn Duffy, Natalia Palombo and Colectivo Amasijo, to share performances, invitations and reflections connected to a new publication, giving a ‘taste’ of the project and what has been learned through it.

The Gathering Table set out to explore local materials and ingredients around Huntly through foraging, cooking, crafting and eating. Over the course of a year, it made connections and fostered collaborations across people, species and cultures (human and more-than-human), to explore politics of food and hospitality.

From practical workshops and regular foraging walks, to experimental meals that play with guests’ expectations, the collaborations nurtured by the Gathering Table unpicked traditional power dynamics between the artist and their audience, the chef and their ingredients, the forager and the plants they have come to know. In performing these multiple roles throughout the project, Kawther created the conditions for active collaboration and agency, enabling the audience to perform host, the ingredients to transform and the plants to tell their stories of how they came to be known (or hidden) here in Huntly. The project culminated in a story, devised in three acts, that played out across an extended period of three months. Each act took form as a meal, performed in the homes of the ‘characters’ in the story– the fields in which barley is grown, to the sheds where the goats are housed, and the riverbed where clay is formed.

A ticket for this event includes a copy of the new publication, The Gathering Table, designed by Tom Joyes with Deveron Projects. The publication tells the story of the Gathering Table, across the three acts. It introduces the characters, collaborators and their transformations, inviting you to get to know the ingredients, processes and conversations through the recipes and choreography of each event.

Running order:

6:00pm - 6:10pm – Welcome from Deveron Projects and introduction from Natalia Palombo

6:10pm – 6:20pm – Kawther Luay, butter invitation

6:20pm – 6:30pm – A Conversation between the Dream Maker and a Girl, Kawther Luay & Fionn Duffy

6:30pm – 7pm – Collectivo Amasijo presentation

7:00pm – 7:15pm – A conversation between a chef and a ceramicist, Kawther Luay & Fionn Duffy

7:15pm – 7:30pm – Open reflections and conversation

7:30pm – end

Tickets

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Tickets are available online via Eventbrite on a sliding scale, please be honest in selecting the ticket that is most appropriate for your means. All costs are inclusive of a publication and postage – please note that we cannot guarantee you will receive the publication before the event!

Please note the book is available in shops including Good Press and Newbridge Book Shop, selling at £10.

Price 1 – Free
Please choose this ticket if you are unemployed or underemployed, if you sometimes cannot meet your basic needs, qualify for government/voluntary assistance (e.g Food Banks), and/or have no or very little expendable income.

Price 2 - £6-£16
Please choose this ticket if you often achieve your basic needs, are employed and have some expendable income.

Price 3 - £10 – 20
Please choose this ticket if you comfortably achieve your basic needs, own your home or rent a higher-end property. If you have access to savings and/or have expendable income.

Last posting dates

Local – collection only up to event
National – 21 June
Europe / International – 14 June

Accessibility

This event takes place online via Zoom. Automated captioning will be available in English. 
There is a participatory element to this event, which requires basic ingredients and equipment. Information relating to these is included in the event information, and you are welcome (or not) to join in. 
There is no requirement for you to have your camera on and participants will not be visible in the event. If you have questions or requirements relating to access, please contact us on jenny@deveron-projects.com / 01466 794494.