TableTalk

TableTalk

2023

Table Talk

FeastFest Table Talk is a forum bringing together artists and companies who work with communities to share experiences and ideas – in a local venue dedicated to culture. We’ll have guest speakers and lots of opportunities for others to contribute questions and thoughts in a welcoming environment.

Show Info.

Venue:

Online 

Date & Time Slot:

TBC

Running Time:

TBC

Recommended Age:

TBC

Hub

Hub

2023

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Not sure what to see in FeastFest? Want to meet the FeastFest team and find out more about what we do? Throughout the festival, our Hub is at Social Convention, a venue for events, cocktails, coffee and meeting up.  We’ll be there from 10am-3pm on Wednesdays. Come say hi!
Social Convention, 2 Caxton St N, London E16 1XJ

Modern Times:
The Albert Cinema Experience

Modern Times:
The Albert Cinema Experience

By Performance Infinity

Feast Fest

Creative Team:

Directed by Xinxi Du

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Enjoy a screening of a classic Charlie Chaplin movie enhanced by live performers and discover the experience of going to the cinema in Newham in the early 20th Century…

In 1912, Sweetingham’s Cinema opened on Silvertown’s Albert Road. Later known as the Albert Cinema, it was a popular location for locals to see the latest films until it closed in 1938. Not far away, in Canning Town, in 1931 two of the 20th century’s most iconic figures met – Mahatma Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin. Their historic meeting was one of the inspirations for Chaplin’s classic film Modern Times.

Modern Times: The Albert Cinema Experience draws inspiration from Silvertown’s forgotten cinema and the Chaplin Gandhi meeting in a film screening with a twist. Presented by FeastFest’s producers Performance Infinity, Modern Times: The Albert Cinema Experience returns after a sell out debut in Newham Heritage Month 2023.

Show Info.

Venue:

Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre

Albert Road London E16 2JB

Date & Time Slot:

Tue, 28 Nov 2023
18:30 – 20:30 GMT

Running Time:

120 mins

Recommended Age:

PG

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Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge

Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge

By Bradán

Feast Days

Creative Team:

Directed by Kate Bauer.
Written and performed by James Ireland

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Join James Ireland as they cook a vegan version of smoked salmon, using the ingredients to have a conversation about food history and human impact on the environment.

This isn’t the first ecological catastrophe we’ve created. 10,000 years ago, human societies across the world changed from hunter-gathering to agricultural lifestyles. We’d hunted our food off the face of the earth. James says we’re making another catastrophe now.

Join us for a look at our current practices of food consumption, one element of unsustainable modern life. Without changing our behaviour and our diets in the past, we wouldn’t be here — so what can we learn from that now? This work centres on a plant-based (vegan) recipe, but that’s just one part of the conversation.

Please note this show contains optional food consumption. Key allergens: gluten, soy, garlic, citrus (lemon). Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival where it was the winner of the Axis Green Arts Award.

“Simple and thought provoking.” No More Work Horse

Our indoor theatre shows have limited capacity and we therefore ask you to book tickets in advance.

Free tickets for The Factory on 9 September are available here 
For Applecart Arts on 10 September here 
(Subject to a £1 booking fee)

Show Info.

Venue:

The Factory (9 Sep)
Applecart Arts (10 Sep)

Date & Time Slot:

9 Sep: 17:00
10 Sep: 16:30

Running Time:

35 minutes

Recommended Age:

10+

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Photos – © Feast Fest

Janet

Janet

By Helen Ainsworth and John Mowat

Feast Days

Cast and Creative Team Credits:


Created by Helen Ainsworth and John Mowat
Directed by John Mowat

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Janet tells the story of the residents in a block of flats and was inspired by living on the Maiden Lane Estate, Kings Cross. It focuses on the story of a young woman – “Janet” who is represented by a lump of uncooked bread dough.

Join us for an emotional, high-­energy, poetically performed tragi-­comedy, celebrating the life of Janet, an ordinary woman who dreams for something else beyond the inevitable and conventional.

Janet is a show for anyone who has tried to defy destiny or go against the grain in everyday life; for those who love to play with their food and especially for those who enjoy a well baked loaf of bread! A very human story told by objects with a dark comic edge – a mix of Monty Python and Emmerdale, plus a pinch of B-Movie Horror.

The production is influenced by Scottish author Ali Smith’s book Artful and also a short story – “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and uses unusual puppetry techniques to tell the story.

Show Info.

Venue:

TBC

Date & Time Slot:

TBC

Running Time:

60 minutes

Recommended Age:

14+

Gallery.

Photos – © Feast Fest

Janet

Janet

By Helen Ainsworth and John Mowat

Feast Days

Cast and Creative Team Credits:

Created by Helen Ainsworth and John Mowat
Directed by John Mowat

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Janet tells the story of the residents in a block of flats and was inspired by living on the Maiden Lane Estate, Kings Cross. It focuses on the story of a young woman – “Janet” who is represented by a lump of uncooked bread dough.

Join us for an emotional, high-­energy, poetically performed tragi-­comedy, celebrating the life of Janet, an ordinary woman who dreams for something else beyond the inevitable and conventional.

Janet is a show for anyone who has tried to defy destiny or go against the grain in everyday life; for those who love to play with their food and especially for those who enjoy a well baked loaf of bread! A very human story told by objects with a dark comic edge – a mix of Monty Python and Emmerdale, plus a pinch of B-Movie Horror.

The production is influenced by Scottish author Ali Smith’s book Artful and also a short story – “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and uses unusual puppetry techniques to tell the story.

Our indoor theatre shows have limited capacity and we therefore ask you to book tickets in advance.
Free tickets for 9 September at The Factory are available here
For 10 September at Applecart Arts here 
(Subject to a £1 booking fee)

Show Info.

Venue:

The Factory (9 Sep)
Applecart Arts (10 Sep)

Date & Time Slot:

9 Sep: 18:15
10 Sep 17:30

Running Time:

60 minutes

Recommended Age:

14+

Gallery.

Photos – © Feast Fest

May Contain Food

May Contain Food

Luca Silvestrini's Protein

Feast Fest

Creative Team:

Luca Silvestrini’s Protein

Luca Silvestrini’s Protein

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Luca Silvestrini’s Protein are one of the UK’s leading dance theatre companies. Their live show May Contain Food has toured the UK for several years. In this filmed version, made at The Place in 2016, audiences are invited to watch the show while preparing a menu at home of some of the tasty bites prepared.

Filmed at The Place in 2016 and finally available online, May Contain Food is Protein’s popular and witty piece of dance and music theatre created by Luca Silvestrini and Orlando Gough, featuring an exquisite cast of four vocalists and four dancers singing for their supper.

Sit back, follow the performers and relish the food, just like the dining audience in the recording, as you explore your relationship with eating for a very unique ‘night in.’

Some courses feature simple ingredients such as a cherry tomato and a ball of rice, whilst adventurous audiences seeking a full sensory experience can have a go at Gough’s own recipe of aromatic sticky ginger pudding to bake during the viewing and consume at the end.

Show Info.

Venue:

Online 

Date & Time Slot:

Watch at home at your convenience

Running Time:

90 minutes

Recommended Age:

10+

Gallery.

Photos – © Feast Fest

Do What Ya Mother Told Ya!

Do What Ya Mother Told Ya!

By Just More Productions

Feast Days

Creative Team:

Created and performed by Fatina and Blaze Tarsha

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International touring contemporary circus artist Blaze and touring circus chef/clown Fatina are a mother and daughter duo. Join them on a joyous journey of a plate spinning, food juggling and fire blazing!

Once all the lemons have been juggled, the plates spun, and the flaming pans put out, it’s time for the grand finale, where the clumsy assistant finally gets a taste of the cake. Suddenly Tiny T is no longer clumsy!

Do What Ya Mother Told Ya! is a feast of food fusion and storytelling across geography and generations.

Just More is a physical theatre & circus company, using food history and circus to educate and entertain, vibrant and friendly performances, bringing culture and communities together. A genuine mother/daughter collaboration, the company have a close relationship having toured together in Nofitstate Circus since 2005.

Show Info.

Venue:

Thames Barrier Park

Date & Time Slot:

9 Sep: Performances between 11:00 and 17:00 (timetable available on the day)

Running Time:

25 mins

Recommended Age:

4+

“The uncontrollable laughter of the kids said it all!”

Audience member at Llandudono

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Migran-te

Migran-te

By Pepa Duarte and Charly Monreal

Feast Days

Creative Team:

Created by Pepa Duarte & Charly Monreal
Performed by Pepa Duarte and Ramon Ayres
Produced by Xacara Culture
Movement director Shane Dempsey
Designer Carolina Rieckhof
Sound designer & composer Tom Sochas
Graphic designer Alexandro Valcarcel

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 Migrant-te is an outdoor performance created by Latinx artists Pepa Duarte and Charly Monreal. The show explores the act of ‘having tea’ in Latin America, bringing this intimate ritual from the privacy of family homes to the public space through sound and movement.

Created by a diverse team of migrant creatives MIGRAN-TE is designed to take ownership of the streets, foregrounding the stories of those often unheard. Performed live by two actors, the piece is accompanied by a soundscape created by composer and musician Tom Sochas that gathers experiences collected in research with seven Latinx households in the UK about their journey to the UK. Through their voices, the piece aims to carry the audience to various Latin American homes.

Pepa Duarte is a Peruvian actor, writer and theatre maker based in London whose work often explores themes of identity, migration, feminism and belonging. Charly Monreal is a London-based Chilean physical performer and theatre maker interested in movement, soundscape, and its possibilities in the space.

 

Show Info.

Venue:

TBC

Date & Time Slot:

TBC

Running Time:

TBC

Recommended Age:

All ages

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