World Food Day: Savoring Stories
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024 6pm - 8pm
Location
Mechanics' Institute
57 Post St
Details
Join Henry Hsu in conversation with Viola Buitoni, Maria Finn, Soleil Ho, Tu David Phu, and Linda Shiue for World Food Day as they delve into the profound connections between food, culture, justice, and healing. Panelists discuss how food writing advances food justice, sustainability, and equitable access to nutrition, and how narratives can drive change. They’ll also uncover the therapeutic aspects of food, considering how storytelling fosters healing and well-being. This event offers insight into the meaning that food adds to our lives, and the impact it has on our identities, societies, and health. Reception at 6:00PM, discussion at 6:30PM. $7.18 for MI members / $17.85 for nonmembers
Book sales for this event coordinated by Book Passage.
From 6:00 to 6:30 pm, immerse yourself in a participatory reception. Share your thoughts on our public discussion board. Find "lines of inspiration" by delving into our food writers' cookbooks and their influences at our book exploration table - a curated selection of related books provided for perusing and borrowing by the Mechanics’ Institute Library. The panel discussion begins at 6:30 pm, followed by a Q&A and cookbook signing.
This event is part of the Litquake 2024 Festival. Litquake’s diverse live programs are created with the aim of inspiring critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bringing people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuating a sense of literary community, as well as a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. We believe in literature as a public good, so we work to produce events that are accessible to all.