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Cooking Workshops to Prepare for the End of the World #6: Tea
IDFA 2020

Cooking Workshops to Prepare for the End of the World #6: Tea

Kookworkshops ter voorbereiding op het einde van de wereld #6: Thee
Sien Vanmaele
Belgium
2020
30 min
World Premiere
Festival history

Theater maker Sien Vanmaele combines theater with cooking and food in sensory performances. In 2019 she started her Cooking Workshops to Prepare for the End of the World, with climate change as the main driver. In these performances she interweaves her interest in food, the systems that surround it, and its impact on the climate. The corona crisis has given her initiative an unexpected extra significance.

One aspect of food is central to each of the workshops. After previous editions on topics including fermentation and seaweed, for IDFA she is exploring the possibilities of tea as a potential lifeline for an impending apocalypse. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, but its cultivation poses challenges for both people and the environment.

During this virtual performance, you’ll go out in search of a tea ceremony for the future, starting from your own kitchen. Sien will lead you live in small groups through this sensually stimulating ritual. Can the tranquility of a tea ceremony help to ease our apocalyptic thoughts? Should we be looking for a more sustainable substitute for tea?

Credits
Created by
Cinematography
    Kobe Vangronsveld
    Kobe Vangronsveld
Editing
    Tim Tielemans
    Tim Tielemans
Sound
    Tim Tielemans
    Tim Tielemans
Co-production
    Kunstencentrum KAAP,
    Laika
    Kunstencentrum KAAP,
    Laika
Key collaborator
    Peter De Bie
    Peter De Bie