HINTERLANDS WALES

STORM KITCHEN TALKS

21.10.20 (lockdown)

Curated by Melissa Appleton, Owen Griffiths, Stevie MacKinnon-Smith and Peak Cymru.

Ahoi! What Grows Here? is a project about food, land, community resources and imagination on the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal. Season 2 of this project consisted of 3 weekly conversations around climate, colonialism, food, land, deep time and radical futures on the Monmouthshire & Brecon canal.

These conversations explored themes such as hidden narratives, the waterway’s connections to trade and empire, poverty and policy, food justice, geological time, restorative justice and radical futures. Alongside this, Storm Kitchen, a narrowboat repurposed as a roving larder, market stall and conversation space travelled from Brecon to Pontypool, guided by Owen and artist Ella Gibbs.

Rosie contributed as guest responder to the third and final talk in the Storm Kitchen series. The talk proposed tools for a collective reimagining of the future of this waterway and its interconnected landscapes. Speakers discussed geological time, being a good ancestor, telling stories at the margins, restorative justice and the potential for radical futures in everyday landscapes. Speakers include Roman Krznaric, Matthew Gough and Muneera Pilgrim.