There is always a place for you at our table

23.09.2022

• The programme entitled “There’s always a place for you at our table” presented the cooking culture of contemporary settlers, immigrants who have come to Poland in the 21st century. The presentation was done through workshops, dialogue, narrative. The workshops were attended both by the people from Tri-City and by tourists.

We invited everyone who wanted to learn how to cook originally foreign, sometimes exotic dishes, but also, or perhaps mostly, those interested in the newcomers, who found it interesting to discuss cuisines, home, longing, the way they absorb Poland into their lives and their food.

Videos were produced during the cycle to document the events, as well as reportage photography projects published on the Facebook page of the Ethnography Department of the Gdańsk National Museum and on the Gdańsk National Museum’s website.

• Professional and curator supervision: Monika Kucia.

Monika Kucia – journalist, curator, producer, performer. She graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies at the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (1999). Curator of the “Lenten Psalms”/“New Epiphanies” Festival since 2014. Journalist, writes regularly for Przekrój quarterly magazine and Culture.pl portal. Author of “Cuisine PL”, a publication promoting the Polish food service industry for the duration of Poland’s Presidency in the EU in 2011. She has authored several culinary & artistic events, such as: “The Wake. Ritual of a Loss” at the National Ethnographic Museum (2016), “The Curse” at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2019), “All Inclusive” (2019) for the inauguration of Culturescapes Festival at Theater Basel, or “Polish Table: Mine, Yours, Ours” at the New York Museum of Food and Drink (2018). She organized cultural/culinary educational and social projects, in collaboration with such institutions as Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

• An open meeting after the workshop was available to everyone. There were micro-tastings of foods and beverages.
• Event partner: KUKBUK.PL.

• We promote the zero waste concept and pro-environmental attitudes. We appreciate traditions. We learn about the culture of the region and folk cultures of other countries. We want to educate through arts and crafts. We connect children, youth and adults with male and female artists, folk creators and museum people.
• We work together for a green, competitive Europe, supporting social inclusion.
• The programme entitled “There’s always a place for you at our table” took place within the project “The Shelter. Climate, Migrations, Heritage”, co-funded with the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the “Culture” Programme, Measure 2 “Improvement of art and culture accessibility”.