When was the last time you shared fruit with someone? 

Across cultures, peeling, cutting, and sharing fruit is a sign of time taken, a way of saying ‘I care’: a simple yet intimate gesture that facilitates connection. It’s almost as if by peeling the layers, one is offering and revealing a part of themselves. 

This workshop invites participants to gather together and reflect on everyday fruit rituals: how picking, eating and sharing fruit allows for the home to be carried, reconstructed, and preserved. 

The evening will begin with a guided reflection to activate memories of food and home through a range of interactive creative prompts. This reflective session will give way to food play, and we will build our own edible fruit sculptures. Towards the end, we will gather around to eat and talk about our creations. You are welcome to bring along any specific fruit you’d like, but plenty will be on offer to choose from.

Unpeel is an invitation to step back, gather around and immerse yourself within the flavours, fragrances and textures of home.

Ananya Jain is a curator and creative practitioner based between London and Delhi. As a facilitator she explores everyday acts of care and resistance, with a particular interest in community building through food and textiles. She is the founder of SHOR (@shorseries) a collaborative-community platform bringing people together through immersive, and multisensorial art and culture events and experiences. 

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