Events - Talks & Lectures

Orchard Symposium

09 Dec 2011

11am – 4pm
The Space

Registration from 10.30am
Free, booking essential

A day-long event, presenting how food is bought and sold in cities, and how that affects our use of public space. The symposium will investigate different models of urban food production and look at how different artists have chosen to investigate the function of various urban spaces; from allotments to marketplaces. The Keynote speaker will be Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City, which follows food’s journey from land to city, through market and supermarket, kitchen and table, waste-dump and back again, to show how food affects all our lives, and impacts on the planet.

The event will form two discussion panels including additional speakers from like minded art projects in the public realm as well as key organisations in the community local to Sneinton Market itself, including Sneinton Alchemy, Sowing Sneinton and Sneinton Market Traders.

Additional speakers will include acclaimed artists Nina Pope – from artist duo Somewhere who will discuss What will the Harvest be? - a community garden project in Abbey Gardens, East London; artist and curator Clare Patey responsible for organising Feast on the Bridge; and John Newling, who will speak about his forthcoming publication, The Lemon Tree & Me and his Preston Market Mysteries.

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