Our collective have been gathering and reenacting ancestral recipes since 2017, using art to amplify voices and stories that have been silenced, and to re-member the worlds of meanings that have been erased. We believe that ancestral recipes can open a space for learning diverse types of Earth knowledges, which contribute to heal our relation to food, to land, and to the lives of others.

We would like to share the booklet with people who are in the same search to re-member who we are with living Earth.

Thu 9th Mar 19:00-21:00 at San Serriffe Amsterdam Sat 11th Mar 15:00-17:00 at Casco, Utrecht.

In the launch events, there will be a conversation and a short video about the recipes reenacted in this booklet. No registration needed. Just come, let’s have a conversation and share some drinks

Read more info on the website of San Serriffe

Read more info on the website of Casco

Towards a Post-Extractive Culture' is a gathering of artists, activists, earth-defenders, cultural workers, indigenous knowledge keepers, radical researchers, community organisers, and storytellers for a world of many worlds.

The journey begins with a three-day gathering exploring new approaches and alternatives that will help us escape the extractivist ‘trap’ of the modern, colonial, heteropatriarchal, capitalist paradigm.

Read more info on the website of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

How do we get from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene? From burdensome to enriching, from short-term thinking to long-term thinking, from Me to We, from ego to eco? What new words, new images and new working methods can help us with this? And how do we do this in such a way that we make untapped opportunities visible and create hope and courage?

Five artists working in this field have been invited to guide the students in their research. These are: Yuchen Li & Aldo Ramos, Teresa Borasino, Helmut Dick, Leon van Opstal and Theun Karelse. Because artists are ideally placed to shift our perspective, because they are our most important storytellers, they may be able to help us make the transition to the Symbiocene, to a world in which humans and nature reinforce each other - again.

Read more info on the website of Breitner Academy

We were invited to give a workshop at the Unknown Sessiosns at teh Theatre Rotterdam. It was a one-day program with lectures, talks and workshops linked to the Welcome to Our Guesthouse experimental artist in residence program of dance, science, bodies and fundi by Productie Huis. We conducted a small workshop to "thinking-feeling with a living Earth" through the most common element - WATER.

Read more info on the website of Theatre Rotterdam

How do we think beyond our own intellectual boundaries? How do we expand it into thinking-being-feeling, not as an individual, but as an Earth Being in constant relations? How to reconnect to the idea of territory starting with our bodies?

Weaving Realities Collective proposes a workshop, using art performance as a tool, to listen to ancestral stories of cacao and to re-member the memory of the body, the memory of history, the memory of culture, allowing our body to be shaped and reshaped by ourselves, the others, the smells, the sound, the touch, the vibration, the invisible forces, the imaginary landscapes and the matters of the Earth.

Read more info on OtherWise website

This is a public performance. We invite the residents in Amsterdam to make the Pozol drink with us, to re-member the memories of corn and cacao by listening to the voices from Abya Yala, a living territory. Pozol is an ancient drink from Mayan culture, which is usually prepared for long travels, but also as an offering to the rain, the lake, and the river.

With this recipe, we invite you on a journey from owning the earth as an object to owing our lives to a living territory, where knowledge is about listening to the silence of the others, and reciprocity as a way to live in relationality with Earth.

This performance reflects on our bodily relations with the Earth and the exploring of the metaphysics of the food. Inspired by the ancestral agriculture in Mesoamerica where corn, beans and squash grow in enrichment with each other, as the famous ‘three sisters' - the milpa, we invite our participants to rethink our relations with other beings on Earth. How can we re-member our bodies as part of a living territory, outside of an anthropocentric or individualist viewpoint into a collective relationality?

Read more info on A Tale of A Tub website

This performance reflects on our bodily relations with the Earth and the exploring of the metaphysics of the food. Inspired by the ancestral agriculture in Mesoamerica where corn, beans and squash grow in enrichment with each other, as the famous ‘three sisters' - the milpa, we invite our participants to rethink our relations with other beings on Earth. How can we re-member our bodies as part of a living territory, outside of an anthropocentric or individualist viewpoint into a collective relationality?

Read more info on NieuwLand website

This performance focuses on the introduction and welcoming of members into a community. Inspired by the Hetzmeek ritual of the cycle of life, death and rebirth held by Mayan communities, this performance is an invitation to learn from ancestral knowledges, to delink from the narrative of the contemporary that consumes life as a commodity. What are the tools that can help us reflect on different areas in our lives? What tools are needed along the important walk of re-membering ourselves as Earth beings?

After the performance, there will be a short lecture The Secret of El Dorado: Agro-Ecology, the Tradition of the Future by Wiedjai Dihal from the Spagen neighborhood, followed by a conversation with Weaving Realities and Suumil.

Read more info on A Tale of A Tub website

This performance focuses on the introduction and welcoming of members into a community. Inspired by the Hetzmeek ritual of the cycle of life, death and rebirth held by Mayan communities, this performance is an invitation to learn from ancestral knowledges, to delink from the narrative of the contemporary that consumes life as a commodity. What are the tools that can help us reflect on different areas in our lives? What tools are needed along the important walk of re-membering ourselves as Earth beings?

Read more info on the website of CBK Zuidoost

We invite you to make the Pozol drink with us, to re-member the memories of corn and cacao by listening to the voices from Abya Yala, a living territory. Pozol is an ancient drink from Mayan culture, which is usually prepared for long travels, but also as an offering to the rain, the lake, and the river.

With this recipe, we invite you on a journey from owning the earth as an object to owing our lives to a living territory, where knowledge is about listening to the silence of the others, and reciprocity as a way to live in relationality with Earth.

Register on the website of Casco Art Institute