Sustainable Food Citizen Week Programme

The programme for the Sustainable Food Citizen Week features activities of every kind: talks, lectures, debates, shows, documentary film series and plenty more. Find your own activity here

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  • Visit the Biomarket

    <p>We offer you the chance to discover all the secrets of this market, located in a sustainable, energy-efficient building and exclusively dedicated to the sale of bio produce.</p>

    <p>Mercabarna houses the first wholesale market for fresh ecological food in Spain, a firm commitment to furthering the commercialisation of this type of food and facilitating its distribution. The initiative is in response to one of the stated goals of the “Barcelona Eats Sustainably” strategy and the 2021 World Capital of Sustainable Food.</p>

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  • Anti-waste rècipes

    <p>Recipe store online with traditional recipes to help stop food waste.<br />
    Trying to get local cooking traditions back with aim of putting a stop to throwing away food.</p>

  • Temporary exhibition “Feeding Barcelona. City, supply and health”

    <p>Feeding the population has always been a concern for cities. It has been a decisive factor in their relationship with surrounding territories, in the centuries-long evolution of technologies for obtaining food produce and in the conditions under which men and women have been able to feed themselves and stay alive.<br />
    From the outset, one of the main tasks of the Consell de Cent, the Barcelona municipal institution created in 1249, was to guarantee food supplies and ensure food safety. Since then, the city's government has strived to guarantee good quality food supplies, because it has been directly responsible for them, provided support in doing so or has sought alternatives to the insufficient actions of other authorities. &nbsp;<br />
    The municipal government's intervention continues today, with Mercabarna, Barcelona and the Western Mediterranean's great food store, and the city's network of municipal markets. This long history of decisive municipal involvement in the food supply chain is historically unique to Barcelona, with no similar situation in most other European cities.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
    The exhibition is open from 15 October 2021 to 15 October 2022.</p>

Gastronomic heritage

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  • Food heritage and sustainability

    The round table seeks to respond to the following questions. What impact will gastronomic heritage have to face as a consequence of sustainable food? Sustainability “imposes” challenges on us every day. What strategies are being pursued to achieve this adaptation? Will innovation bring us new ways of including sustainable ingredients in our diet? And, have we got ways of maintaining a healthy diet despite the changes to come? How will this need to bring about a transition to a more sustainable diet be compatible with maintaining gastronomic heritage? These are just some of the questions which the speakers in this session will be addressing.

     

    16th October - 17.30 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Round table
  • The Vegetable Orchestra
    The Vegetable Orchestra

    A unique musical group, the Vegetable Orchestra, plays instruments made from fresh vegetables. The use of various vegetable instruments makes for a unique musical and aesthetic universe. The Vegetable Orchestra covers the most diverse musical styles, combining genres from electronic music to jazz. The newly created instruments determine the resulting sound. A Vegetable Orchestra concert appeals to all five senses.

    October 16th - 20.00 H
    Teatre del CCCB, Jardí dels Tarongers, Plaça del Rei, Parc de la Barceloneta
    Show
  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food

    At the improshow we play with knowledge about food, sustainability and the climate emergency. We’ll be improvising everyday situations connected with sustainable food and local organisations, through humour and based on audience suggestions.
    An innovative experience in which the audience will become the authors of stories that are surprising, exciting and fun.

     

    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

Waste vs Good use

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  • Taller de vaixelles comestibles
    Edible crockery workshop. How can we get children to eat fruit and vegetables in a fun, and light-hearted way?

    At the edible crockery workshop, children will create their own seasonal spoons, bowls and glasses using domestic technologies, with fruit and vegetables as their materials.
    The aim is to offer children and parents a fun, creative activity that involves healthy food.
    At the workshop, the children explore the shapes, textures, colours, aromas and tastes of the vegetables, learning concepts such as seasonal produce, location, ecology and properties of the fruit and vegetables. At the same time, the workshop fosters the introduction of these foodstuffs in their daily diets.

    October 16th - 10.00 H / 11.00 H / 12.00 h / 13.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Workshop
  • recuperem el valor dels aliments
    Culinary experience: recovering the value of food products

    A free, best-use meal to raise people's awareness about the value of food, preventing food waste and making the best use of food. 200 menus will be served, made using recovered food and a plenty of creativity! Parc de la Barceloneta will become an amplifier for the people and projects that work towards reducing food waste, making the most of food and achieving zero waste. The recovered food is the star of the show! The other ingredient: volunteers. The kitchen will be humming thanks to a team of volunteers who make it possible to recover surplus food, cook and serve the dishes. The selection, cleaning and preparation of all the recovered food is carried out in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. Everyone is welcome! On the same day, we will also be offering recovered food that hasn't been used by the kitchen, at an “adoption stall”, as a donation and act of joint responsibility towards the value of the product.

    We hereby inform you that we cannot guarantee that the meals served during this event are free of substances that may cause some type of allergy or food intolerance.

    October 16 - 14.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Culinary experience
  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food

    At the improshow we play with knowledge about food, sustainability and the climate emergency. We’ll be improvising everyday situations connected with sustainable food and local organisations, through humour and based on audience suggestions.
    An innovative experience in which the audience will become the authors of stories that are surprising, exciting and fun.

     

    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show

Urban rurality and biodiversity

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  • Creació i gestió d’un banc de llavors
    Creation and management of a seed bank. Everyone can have their own seed bank

    What needs to be taken into account when creating and managing your own seed bank at home or in an allotment. How to carry out the natural selection of seeds, how to conserve them and manage them.  
    Creating a seed bank is an initiative that reinforces food sovereignty. Recovering seeds is an act of empowerment, in order to stop depending on agro-industrial lobbies.
    A seed bank helps to recover traditional seeds and increase the biodiversity which is being lost year after year. This is an educational activity to highlight the great work being done by farmers and how this contributes to a healthy, sustainable diet in our homes.

     

     

    October 16th - 10.00 H
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Workshop
  • Dinar silvestre amb viatge gastronòmic
    Culinary experience: wild lunch and culinary journey

    A guided meal to discover how cooking based on local produce and edible wild plants is good, fun and also essential. We explain the story behind each of these dishes, how they were made, the characteristics of their ingredients, how the species used were traditionally employed, and their potential in the kitchen (and the countryside) today.

    The wild plants are the stars of each dish. We begin by explaining the plants hidden in the wild-plant salad with pine syrup, followed by a tasting session of savoury coca cakes using vegetables of traditional agricultural varieties (pumpkins, spinach, onions, etc.), wild plants (purslane, white goosefoot, sow thistles, etc.) and locally-produced cheese. We will end with a tasting session of sweet coca cakes (carob brownie with wood calamint, almond cake with satureja and apple crumble with lemon verbena), accompanied by a home-made ratafia wine or elder and blackberry syrup for the younger participants.

    The meal is suitable for vegetarians.

    We hereby inform you that we cannot guarantee that the meals served during this event are free of substances that may cause some type of allergy or food intolerance.

    October 16 at 14:30h
    Jardí dels Tarongers
    Culinary experience
  • Transhumance

    Transhumance is the seasonal migration of herds in search of pasture land wherever it may be depending on the time of year: pasture land in the mountains in summer and on the plain in winter.

    And so are our shepherds, they lead the flock where the public is gathered to enjoy the street theatre. Shepherds, goats and our dog are the main characters. But maybe you will also end up being a protagonist. Do you know how to milk? And how do you do as a wolf?

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    October 17th - 17.00 H
    Parc de la Barceloneta
    Show

Ecological footprint

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  • Food low in CO2-eq emissions. The life cycle of food and its carbon footprint

    Talk looking at all the most common stages of the life cycle of our food. From the farm to the table, we’ll be pondering the carbon footprint of agriculture, packaging, logistics, cooking, organic waste etc. The overall goal is to provide information for deciding on food which has a lower impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. The session will also stress the contradictions in environmental communication for consumers.  

    October 17th - 13.00 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk
  • Dialogue between Vandana Shiva and Esther Vivas

    What are the impacts of our food system on our planet? How does this affect the peasantry, our territory and the communities of the global south? What role does the food industry play? What can we do as consumers? What is the role and situation of women, who have traditionally fed the world? On all these issues, we offer you an exciting dialogue with Vandana Shiva (Indian climate activist, graduate in physics, philosopher, ecologist, feminist and author of more than twenty books and 300 articles in the world's most prestigious scientific journals) and Esther Vivas ( activist, researcher in social movements and agricultural and food policies, degree in journalism and diploma in higher studies in sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona).

    17th October 13.30 h
    Plaça del Rei
    Talk
  • Conflictes socioambientals del sistema alimentari a Catalunya
    Socio-environmental conflicts surrounding the food system in Catalonia

    The current industrial agri-food system generates a series of environmental conflicts that are manifested through struggles and mobilisations in response to the impact this system has on the environment and society. These conflicts are mainly associated with the defence of environmental conditions or equal access and distribution of natural resources, often occurring in production and transit areas, and ultimately affecting the regions and communities where they happen. They often reveal conflicting interests, different development paradigms, and aspects related to involvement in decision-making.

    The aim of this roundtable is to address some of the main current socio-environmental conflicts in Catalonia, arising from the food system, and to understand the causes and impacts both in Catalonia and the Global South, in order to make them visible, encourage dialogue and provide possible solutions or alternatives.

    October 17th - 17.30 H
    Plaça del Rei
    Round table

Proximity

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  • Improshow de l’alimentació sostenible
    Improshow on sustainable food

    At the improshow we play with knowledge about food, sustainability and the climate emergency. We’ll be improvising everyday situations connected with sustainable food and local organisations, through humour and based on audience suggestions.
    An innovative experience in which the audience will become the authors of stories that are surprising, exciting and fun.

     

    October 17th - 20.00 H
    Plaça Reial
    Show
  • Visita guiada a la Llotja de Mar de Barcelona
    Guided tour of the Confraria de Pescadors de Barcelona. How do fish get from the sea to our table?

    The fish market is a specific part of the Barcelona fishing port where the fish that have been caught during the day are auctioned off for sale. On the occasion of Sustainable Food Week, the market opens its doors so that we can learn about the fleet of the Fishermen’s Guild of la Barceloneta, the various fishing methods used and the environmental impact they have. During the visit, we will talk about the types of fishing and the methods used to catch different species, while learning what a day at the market is like, what species are sold at auction, and what measures are being taken to address the new challenges that are putting marine ecosystems at risk.

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    October 19 at 7:30 h / October 20, 21 and 22 at 16:00 h
    Fishermen's Guild of Barcelona
    Visit / Tour
  • Vestigis i futurs de l’agricultura a Barcelona: la Ponderosa, el Rec Comtal i la Casa de l’Aigua
    Remnants and futures of agriculture in Barcelona: La Ponderosa, El Rec Comtal and La Casa de l’Aigua

    Are there any allotment estates left in Barcelona? How does Barcelona feed itself? How vulnerable are we, without having land available for producing the food we eat? Discover La Ponderosa, the city’s last allotment estate, the Rec Comtal and water heritage, and fall in love with local produce and sustainable food.

    October 23th from 10.00 to 13.00 H
    Casa de l'Aigua de la Trinitat Nova
    Visit / Tour

More week

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  • Visita a Can Calopa amb tast de vins periurbans
    Visit to Can Calopa with a tasting of periurban wines

    This activity is an adapted version of the classic visit ‘The Winery and the Vineyard’ offered at Can Calopa de Dalt. In this case, the activity offers a special tasting of wines from periurban projects managed by L’Olivera: Vinyes de Barcelona (from the Finca de Can Calopa de Dalt, in Collserola) and Arraona Blanc i Negre (from the estate at Can Gambús, in the Sabadell Agricultural Park).

     

    October 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23th and 24th from 12.30 to 14.00 H
    Masia Can Calopa de Dalt
    Visit / Tour
  • AtmosTerra sessions: ploughing the sky, recarbonising the sun

    A forum for agriculture, livestock farming, science and the academic world, as well as consumers, where people can meet, debate and establish a framework for cooperation which favours a transition towards resilient, healthy, fair and diversified food systems.
    A place where people can work on how to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequestrate carbon in food systems in order to counter and adapt to climate change.

     

     

     

    October 16th from 9.00 to 18.00 H / October 17th from 9.00 to 14.00 H
    Institute of Catalan Studies, Sala Prat de la Riba
    Round table
  • Exhibition of organisations at the La Rambla kiosks

    Are you aware of the entities and other organisations that promote and work to make sustainable, fair and healthy food more accessible in Barcelona? Do you know who promotes this in your neighbourhood and what initiatives they organise? Do you need help putting it into practice? Would you like to get involved?

    Come along to the kiosks on La Rambla and find out for yourself! Check the grid to see the times for each organisation. We will be near Mercat de la Boqueria.

     

    October 16th, 17th, 23th and 24th from 10.30 to 19.00 H
    La Rambla Kiosk (near Mercat de la Boqueria)
    Exhibition