[imc-scotland-discussion] Broth Mix – free café and platform for exchange

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Broth Mix – free café and platform for exchange

Tuesday 16th October to Sunday 21st October
Intermedia Gallery
CCA, top floor, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow, G2 3JD


In October, with your help, the gallery space will be turned into a 
free cafe and platform for sharing of food, ideas, seeds and produce, 
run by artists and backed by the resources of community food 
initiatives, gardeners and allotment communities.

Soup and bread is a universal dish, simple and sustaining; sharing in 
eating, a universal activity. Made from locally sourced, fresh and 
seasonal vegetables, artists will cook soup (and more besides!) and 
bake bread in the gallery. The working kitchen will be fully open to 
the dining facilities – cooking as a kind of performance.

The vegetable ingredients will be gathered through gardeners’ 
donations. The meals will be initiated and formed by what’s brought to 
the kitchen from the garden and the recipes from the ideas of the 
artists cooking and visitors to the gallery.

Coinciding with Document 5 <http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk>, the 
bustling international human rights film festival, the space will 
become a busy meeting space, a framework for discussion, a catalyst for 
dialogue, blurring the distinctions between growers, artists, film 
makers and audience. Wider than this, we intend for the gallery as a 
public space to bring people together and become a creative hub with an 
openness to research and exploration founded on camaraderie with good 
quality food as its base. This kind of social space is just as 
important to emerging artists as it is to those looking to view things 
afresh.

People will have the opportunity to exchange produce and seeds, share 
information about growing food and on community food projects. We will 
enable this to happen through inviting groups and individuals to talk, 
the screening of videos, and the display of information & ideas...

For many people, artists included, green issues are a growing concern, 
but the reality still is that too many of us have little money for good 
food – whereas locally sourced, fresh, organic vegetables utilising 
local expertise and knowledge could be plentiful, only requiring a 
catalyst, one that hopefully will ripple outwards.

We need you to get involved by: coming along, bringing your ideas, 
offering your knowledge to share with others, pledging to bring along 
your excess produce, lending equipment and materials, cooking a 
wholesome meal or baking fresh bread. If you think you might be able to 
help out, or if you would simply like to know more, please contact us 
at: brothmix at hotmail.com

Broth Mix is a collective, initiated by Alex Wilde & Leigh French