About
the
Basic Activist Kitchen
A group of Utrecht-based activists, artists, an researchers initiated by Jeanne van Heeswijk
the Basic Activist Kitchen is run by a group of Utrecht-based activists, artists, and researchers with backgrounds in theatre, art, squatting, organizing, anthropology, history, and gender studies, in collaboration with food for good, asia komarova (Casco and the outsiders), M. G Lostia and Sofia Fonseca, Willem Geertman Art and Culture Collective, Revolutionaire Eenheid, Sayonara Stutgard, 3K, and others, Initiated by Jeanne van Heeswijk. Â
Throughout the course of Trainings for the Not-Yet, the Basic Activist Kitchen (the BAK) organizes daily cooking sessions and meals for trainings participants as well as for passers-by. Each week, different individuals and collectives are invited to collaborate and thus engage their respective practices and networks in the activity of communal cooking. What ingredients are used and where they originate; what is cooked, with and by whom; what is eaten together, when and why; and who is invited to the table and who is able or willing to join: these are political acts.
The Basic Activist Kitchen table is organized as a space for encounters both to debate these questions and to embody them through practice—to train in them, in fact—as a means of shaping-in-common the not-yet. With the urgencies of this time in mind, the BAK is an experiment in actualizing solidarity and mutual, multidirectional care, sharing responsibility for food, the planet, and for each other.
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Live online event
29 April 2020, 19.00-21.00
Practicing Tactical Solidarities: A Roundtable on Mutual Aid, Emergency, and Continuous Care
Public program
19 December 2019, 19.00-21.00
KSU X Basic Activist Kitchen: Rojava – Kurdish autonomous region
Public program
18 December 2019, 18.30-21.30