The Theatre Centre has an exciting March Community Meal programmed for you! Lisa Myers, Kelly Lui, Ama Amponsah and Cindy Pham will offer a delicious vegetarian meal along with a screening and conversation.

Cooking-as-Inquiry is a collaboration between food scholars, artists, and food advocates: Ama Amponsah, Kelly Lui, Lisa Myers, and Cindy Pham. This lunch will present food’s capacity to connect people with places, history, and a sense of belonging while thinking through issues of diaspora and displacement.

Kelly Lui will screen her sensitive portrayal of the kitchen as a place of labour, emotional care, and love in her video My Mother’s Kitchen. Cindy Pham’s documentary Grandma’s Recipes reveals the filmmaker building her knowledge of cooking, family history, and identity. Through storytelling, Ama Amponsah will convey memories of her Grandmother preparing food in Ghana. Lisa Myers will make food that recalls cooking with her Grandmother. Inspired by the idea of cooking-as-inquiry this lunch menu values learning by cooking with the cooks around us, and the generations that came before.

*Please note: The March Community Meal will start at 12:30pm with screenings and storytelling throughout the meal.

List of Works:
Screening of Grandma’s Recipes by Cindy Pham
Screening of My Mother’s Kitchen by Kelly Lui
Food Story by Ama Amponsah
Cooking from Memory by Lisa Myers

Vegetarian Menu will include:
– Vegetarian wontons served with chillies
– Roasted Mushrooms and squash
– Rice
– Salad

Dessert:
Blueberries with maple syrup and skaan (frybread)

Food is first-come, first-served, so make sure to arrive on time to avoid disappointment!