An educational fundraiser in support of Mashjar Juthor.
Join Miknaf Ha’aretz & The Kitchen Table to welcome and learn from Palestine-based urban farmer and food activist Morgan Cooper who will be sharing from her experiences of food and land justice struggles under military occupation.
We will be raising funds for Mashjar Juthor, for conservation, planting and caring for trees in occupied Palestine and educational work around Palestinian agricultural and culinary heritage in the face of land theft and cultural erasure.
As foodies, farmers & activists in the land and food justice movement in the UK, it feels imperitive to connect with and build solidarity with farmers and land-workers in occupied Palestine facing immense threats to their livelihoods and existence. We are so honoured to welcome Morgan and her family to Devon and to learn more how we can support Palestinian liberation and Palestinian food & farming heritage as it is being lost through decades of disposession from land and militarized control with what remains.
We warmly invite you to join us for these two very special events to learn and be together, uplifting Palestinian life through food culture and celebration of Palestine's rich agricultural & culinary heritage.
Monday 24th June, 6:30-8:30pm, The Mansion, Totnes (in the hall upstairs, next to library entrance)
Food Justice as Resistance in Palestine: A talk with Morgan Cooper
Cost: £10/£15/£20 (No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email hello@miknafhaaretz.co.uk for furthur support).
Wednesday 26th June, 6-10pm, Dartington Village Hall
Palestine Supper Club: An evening of feasting, solidarity and storytelling around Palestinian culinary heritage with renowned seasonal chefs Morgan Cooper & The Kitchen Table. This will be a sit down three course meal entwining traditional Palestinian food with local, seasonal British produce.
Cost: £25/£35/£45
Morgan Cooper is an urban farmer, lacto fermenter and designer (she is founder of Little Olea all natural products and Handmade Palestine). She left academia is 2010 to build an arboretum in Palestine with her husband with whom she ran Cafe La Vie in Ramallah for 12 years. She lives with her husband Saleh Totah, and two little kids, in his native Ramallah in the home his father built.
Miknaf Ha’aretz is a British-based Jewish cultural organising project run by Sara Moon and Samson Hart, on a mission to heal, repair and transform Jewish belonging to land. We seek to re-connect the Jewish community back to land and to tend the traumas that have resulted from multiple displacements, genocide and centuries of discriminatory laws preventing our community from accessing land. We insist on uplifting Jewish safety, belonging and re-connection to land, not through the nationalism of zionism but through a politics of solidarity and co-liberation.
The Kitchen Table is a South Devon based conscious caterer run by Sima Cutting, who loves all things sustainable, equal, local & delicious.
