The Future Food Salon explores AND CELEBRATEs what we will be eating in the future.
The Future Food Salon creates a space for collaborative, improvised happenings hosted by multi-media artist Aruna Antonella Handa with members of the Future Food Salon Group and local partners. Bringing together artists, scientists, inventors, makers, farmers, chefs and surprises, the Salon welcomes everyone who is curious about what we might be eating in the future, and interested in protecting the planet’s ability to provide sustenance for its inhabitants.
There was a new sense of urgency with the recent publications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report urging us to cap global warming at 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures (Global Warming of 1.5°C) in October, 2018, and that sense was sharpened in February 2022 with the new release, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
According to the watchdog #showyourbudgets, Canada is out of time to meet targets to limit increases to 1.5°C. Writing in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News, Wolf Depner, puts it this way:
Canada has run out of runway to land its plane on the 1.5 C goal and it would take a sharp, almost vertical drop to land on the 1.8 C goal, – an unlikely prospect.
Interested in co-hosting or joining a Future Food Salon? Please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
FUTURE FOOD SALONS PAST
Toronto: Centre for Social Innovation (Annex) (2011)
Toronto: Gallery 345 (2013)
New York City: Starrett Lehigh Building (2013)
Austin: Brazos Hall (2014)
Montreal: Insectarium / Botanical Gardens (2014)
New York City: The Explorers Club (2015)
Related Future Food Salon Events
Toronto: Victory Café Bugs & Beer (2013),
CSI Annex: Taste Lab: Bugs (2013)
Montreal: Botanical Gardens Big Bang Bug Banquet (2014)
New York: The Explorers Club Banquet of Bugs (2015)
Take off with us?
Journey from the future back in time to the Anthropocene aboard the time travel cruise ship and interact with some of the planet’s inhabitants at the brink of earth’s ecological disaster.
VOYAGE TO THE ANTHROPOCENE:
FUTURE FOOD SALON 3
The Future Food Salon anticipates the official announcement of the new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Humankind has now become the greatest geological force on Planet Earth. Though the signs can be read as markers of despair, the Salon encourages a vision of opportunity, of hope, of challenge to inspire us to break free of our dependence on destructive materials and invent ways to showcase the very best of humankind in the Anthropocene.
The kingdom of fungi, including mushrooms, yeasts, moulds and smuts, is the featured ingredient with algae playing a supporting role. Fungi, being the planet’s experts in waste management, can lead the way to remediation. We need to pay attention.
Voyage to Anthropocene will depart as soon as the pandemic permits us to be together, masks off, so we can taste and talk and engage with minimal risk. This salon series is a multi-sensory immersive theatrical experience in five acts.