Every day, everyone has to eat. But how do you choose what to eat? What are our choices really? Can we dream together about how we all eat?

If you love eating, hate eating, or have an ‘it’s complicated’ relationship with eating, this is the show for you. Over the past year and a bit, the team has been asking people across Helsinki to share with us about their relationship with food as well as how they make choices around what they eat.

We’ve then layered together people’s stories (and put some of their words to music!), so in this tongue-in-cheek musical documentary performance, you’ll get a taste of different perspectives about what’s important to people, what they struggle with, and most importantly, a delicious spread of dreams around how we can collectively eat our way towards gentler worlds.

Note
As part of the performance, actors will be preparing with audiences a root vegetable soup (vegan, lactose-free and nuts free; the full list of ingredients is available at the venue).

The performance is about an hour, and then the space will be open for another hour for people to eat and chat. In addition to the soup, we will have dumpster dived bread, pastries and fruit, in collaboration with Aalto Foodsharing. The food will be cleaned before serving, but we cannot guarantee the absence of allergens.

Lastly, do note that the performance contains mentions of a difficult relationship with eating, an animal being slaughtered, as well as vegetarianism and veganism. If you are deeply uncomfortable at any point, please feel free to leave the space, and you can always re-enter when you’re ready.

Working group:
Direction and text/lyrics curation: Gua Khee Chong
Composition and lyrics support: Gyula Jussi Lukács
Dramaturgical and costume support: Natania Prezant
Music arrangement: Aleksi Laukkonen
Scenographer: Anna Satu Kaunisto
Lighting designer: Titus Torniainen
Assistant scenographer and Props designer: Yö Heinänen
Sound engineer: Mika Savolainen
Performers: Maja Burggraaff and Merita Salihi-Hildén
Musicians: Viltė Kišonaitė and Felix Hirsch
Production and publicity: Matilda Anttila
Poster design team: Yesol Lim
Video documentation: Vivian Wong