FOOD: A Convening brings together artists, cooks, farmers, writers, and organizers working at the intersection of food, art, and ecologies.

Across two days, the convening moves through performance, presentation, workshop, and shared meals, shaped by four distinct themes: food as medium, system, archive, and territory. 

Together, we examine food as artistic medium and site of critical research, as ecological system and economic infrastructure, as archive of embodied memory and cultural preservation, and as territory: the ground on which land return and the transmission of plant knowledge are being actively reclaimed and restored.

September 25, 2026 at the Philosophical Research Society

The first day includes panel discussions, presentations, a workshop, and a breakout session, with beverages by senses coffee project and lunch prepared by chef Gerardo Gonzalez.

September 26, 2026 at the Feminist Center for Creative Work

The second day features an artist project by the transdisciplinary collective Cocina Colaboratorio. Mesa Migrante activates a migratory table as a mobile, participatory kitchen moving between Tomaltepec (Oaxaca), Mexico City, and Los Angeles. The convening concludes with FOOD: A Party, closing out two days of conversation, food, and art.

FEATURING

EVA AGUILA

SITA KURATOMI BHAUMIK, Peoples Kitchen Collective

HEIDI ROSS

ADOBO-FISH-SAUCE

AARON TUPAC, Exploring the Mycoverse

JACK FORINASH, Blue Sky Center

NADIA BARHOUM, Thurayya

MARTIN DRALUCK, Black Pot Supper Club

GINNY HWANG, SSI YA GI

JEAN TRINH

VINCENT MEDINA & LOUIS TREVINO, mak-warép Ohlone Land Conservancy

COCINA COLABORATORIO

MIKEY MUENCH, senses coffee project

GERARDO GONZALEZ, Salmon Creek Farm

YASMINE OSTENDORF-RODRÍGUEZ

GREEN ART LAB ALLIANCE (GALA)

LIVING EARTH

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FOOD: A Convening is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, with the generous support of Sarah and Joel McHale, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, Betsy Greenberg and Steve NyBlom, and Joaquín Vargas M. In-kind support is provided by the Kimpton Everly Hotel, RG|MX, and William Grant & Sons.