Food is Storytelling

Food is storytelling! It fuels us, brings us together and tells us about places and people.

Join us for a workshop at Tyne Derwent Way at Dunston Staiths to explore What are your foods of Gateshead's present?

Share your own stories, taste food from Staiths Cafe, and hear from Dingy Butterflies about Bensham Bites, which brings together various food, nature and art focused projects into one network. Bensham Bites explores community food growing, waste, preserving and distribution with the aim of improving local knowledge and skills and supporting health and wellbeing in the wider Gateshead area.

This is one of three 'Food is Storytelling' workshops. Part of a joint project by the Tyne Derwent Way and The World is Storytelling, funded by Gateshead Food Partnership: www.gatesheadfoodpartnership.co.uk

The workshops are here to provide the space to celebrate Gateshead's food, its people, and the stories behind it all.

The other workshops will be:

• 13 July 1-3pm at St Mary's Heritage Centre
• 27 July 1-3pm at Gibside, National Trust

You are very welcome to attend as many of the workshops as you wish.

What should I expect?

The workshop will be facilitated by Ronni of 'The World is Storytelling' and will look like the following.

• Introduction
• Food Meditation - with delicious food from Staiths Cafe
• Guest Food presentation from Ben Jones of Dingy Butterflies
• Sharing our own food stories
• Recording of 'recipes' - remembering our time together by compiling a list of recipes, menus of the foods of Gateshead's present.
• What should I prepare?

No need to prepare anything, although if you'd like to share a special food memory, recipe, or story of Gateshead's past, we'd love you to share it.

Location

Tyne Derwent Way at Dunston Staiths - the comunity space on Staithes Road, Dunston, Gateshead NE11 9DR (https://w3w.co/jokes.spoil.waving).

Dunston Staiths is where past meets present along the Tyne Derwent Way, a perfect space for conversation about the foods of Gateshead's present.

Accessibility

We'd really love to make these workshops accessible to all, so we will pay travel expenses for those coming on public transport - just bring your ticket along for us to see and we'll give you cash on the day.

The space has a small step at the entrance - let us know if this will be a problem.

There is parking nearby, although we'd really encourage you to walk, wheel, or take public transport where possible as a way to care for our environment. There's bike-parking on site.

If you have any questions or would like to let us know any more access needs, just get in touch with Lucy: lucy.zwolinska@nationaltrust.org.uk