Coming up in April at Slung Low and other venues:
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More Than A Mouthful
Saturday 21 April
2pm, Slung Low's HUB
More Than A Mouthful is Commoners Choir’s menu of ideas based on the
importance and magic of growing and preparing food. In the time it takes
them to sing a setful of songs, resident chef Josh Sutton will
prepare and cook a meal using ingredients gathered from The Sharehouse in
Pudsey (the UK’s first waste food supermarket). Hopefully there’ll be
more than a mouthful for everyone in the audience to have some at the
end! There’ll be an exhibition of menus culled from Royal Banquets (roast
swan a speciality) and entry is free with a tin or packet to donate to
the local foodbank.
It’s an idea that the Choir have been chewing on for some time. From
first milk to last supper, food provides daily sustenance. The lucky ones
among us might enjoy up to three meals a day, maybe more if we count that
late night snack before bedtime or those cheeky elevenses every once in a
while. But for others, it may well be a different story.
Over one million people are dependent on food charity in Britain today.
It’s a figure that no government is keen to publicise. A shocking but not
surprising statistic in a world where an industrialised food system and
agricultural policies give rise to unscalable mountain ranges of food
waste. Enter The Real Junk Food Project, and others like it, that not
only highlight the insanity of food waste, but make some of that waste
available to those that might otherwise go without.
But as well as providing nourishment to the body, food can nourish the
soul. Feasts beget communities. Gathering together to eat has always been
a vital part of society and culture, and what resonates across
communities the world over is this simple and basic act of compassion:
that we make sure that all around the fire are fed; that there should be
enough to go around. Eating, like singing in a choir, is an act of
empathy, communality and sharing.
Commoners Choir invite you to join us
for a concert of four-part harmony singing and live cooking, and
hopefully more than a mouthful’s worth of ideas, food and singalong
choruses.
More Than A Mouthful will cover the four compass points of Leeds over two
weekends in April. The series of events has been supported by Leeds
Inspired.
Entry to this performance is free with a can or packet to
be donated to a local food bank.
On street parking is available at the venue.
We look forward to welcoming you to The HUB soon.
Slung Low
67-71 BATH
ROAD LEEDS LS11 9UA
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