Harrow Food Justice Event–   We brought together 35 young people who participated in a 1 day event with workshops exploring food justice. We ran creative workshop’s looking at food through our own experiences as well as injustice around the world. We engaged people in debates and discussions which looked at how colonisation abroad has had an impact on food systems.

Vox box filming day in Harrow– We publicly interviewed 9 different members of the public from harrow to find out different people’s 0pinions on our food system.

Get fit with NOMAD

Over the last 5 years Asha who is one of our co-founder herself lost 10 stone in weight, which has been part of a long journey of building on her own confidence, understanding nutrition and rebuilding her knowledge around food. Her passion for fitness and health grew which changed her life whilst having a huge influence on the community of young women around her she used NOMAD as a platform to support other young women in the community understanding and challenging our community’s relationships with our food system. 

Nomad was a platform where she used health and fitness training people together to build on self-esteem and confidence but it also became a space we challenging the issues we faced as young women and men in society together. We also would find spaces where we would teach people about nutrition and how to make healthy alternative meals cheap whilst looking at the relationship we all have with food in a positive way.

This project engaged young people from all over London exploring food through fun and challenging the chicken and chips culture we are exposed to by making affordable smoothies and cooking weekly healthy meals together. This space was conscious of the process engaging young people in the social issues we faced in our community such as poverty and crime which was related to our food system.

It also raised awareness about where we brought our foods such as the impact was we started to go to local fruit markets rather than supermarkets which was cheaper and supporting local smaller business.

Filming and workshop in harrow– Interactive workshop looking at food, discrimination, money and the environment in small groups where people could have a deeper discussion about their own journeys and what food justice means to us as an individuals and a community.

Here is short film of our findings of the phase 1 of the project.

In December Javier from Solidarity Hull, Asha, Hinda, Fatma and Tom from Coventry University presented an interactive theatre performance at City Food Symposium 2016 and a Performance and Audience at City University  around issues exploring identity, culture, gentrification, food trends and the injustice of fair trade in Colombia.  The aim of this was to get a reaction from the audience to have a better understanding and awareness of the issues directly affecting the people they are researching and writing about in their communities.

NOMAD PRODUCTIONS

Nomad Production is our film making and photography training programme. Were young people can learn new skills about film making and photography. Working in small groups, young people will work on each other’s personal projects to learn how to conduct research, shoot and edit a short documentary or fiction film on a theme chosen by them. During this process they will master the basic skills required to work in the television industry, both technical and social.

The course includes the following:-

Visual storytelling: research, planning, storyboarding, scriptwriting,

Technical: How to use a digital SLR for photography and shooting film, composition, framing, exposure, sound recording.

Industry skills: Premiere Pro – learning how to use industry standard editing software. 

Social: time-keeping, cooperation, developing and supporting each other’s ideas. Young people will learn the process of making a film from start to finish and this will provide an opportunity to practise all the skills required for developing their own creative ideas into a visual format. Here are some of the films that were made in the course: