5 March 2026, 18:00 - 21:00
Open Kitchen TakeOver: Consider a Tomato
VOKU, filmscreening & FreeShop
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
in collaboration with the AgroEcology Network and Marina Sulima
18:00 – 20:00
VOKU & FreeShop
19:00 – 21:00
screening of Consider a Tomato by Marina Sulima
followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and guests
We together cook a delicious and accessible plant-based meal; organize program and hold a space for the extended network of community kitchens, food activists, friends, comrades, creatives and Basecamp inhabitants to gather, share, learn, un-learn and enjoy a meal together. Each week tastes like a different #Kitchen Takeover#.
This week we invite artist and film-maker Marina Sulima and the Agroecology Network to discuss, share and reflect upon resilient food communities rooted in agroecology and food sovereignty. We will screen Marina Sulima’s documentary Consider a Tomato about Moldovan migrant labour in the greenhouse tomato sector in the Westlands, Netherlands. After the screening, a conversation will unfold around Migration and Labor in Farming systems. With food and discussion, this is a moment for the Agroecology movement to learn and bring together people who are interested in the topics of labour and migration in the Netherlands.
Marina Sulima’s documentary called Consider a Tomato is about Moldovan migrant labour in the greenhouse tomato sector in the Westlands, Netherlands. Consider cutting a tomato open, consider the worlds contained within. Consider a recipe for pickled tomatoes in a world full of LED-light grown, rock-wool sown tomatoes. Consider following tomatoes from closed-off Dutch greenhouses to Moldova, home to the filmmaker and many greenhouse workers, who leave their own tomato patches to work behind glass walls. Consider your guide to be a manuscript full of family recipes and countless ways of fermenting tomatoes.
#nowaste#vegan#Agroecology#unlearninghospitality#Fermentation#Food Sovereignty
Open To Public- Donation Based* (Suggested 10-15 euro)
About the artist:
Marina Sulima is an artist born in Moldova, working and living in Groningen. She graduated in 2020 from Minerva Academy in Groningen with Parcelpaedia, a short film about Italy Syndrome: a depression specific to Eastern European women who work as caregivers in Italy. The film received a Wildcard from Netherlands Filmfonds, which allowed her to make another hybrid film: Consider a Tomato.
[id: a colorful drawing of a glass jar in a field. behind we see glass houses. inside the jar a tomato floats and people appear, holding and tending to plants]
