Events
Woke Foods’ Summer Plant-Based Cooking Class
Riverbank State Park Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Dr, NY, United StatesWe invite you to discover a world of delicious plant-based foods! Explore your kitchen skills through our hands-on plant-based cooking class. Our cooking class this month will be in partnership with The Horticulture Society and focused on summer recipes using seasonal and local ingredients! Our class will be taught by Chef Ysanet Batista. The class…
Resistance Kitchen – Eating and Shopping on a Budget
Kelly Street Garden 924 Kelly Street, Bronx, NY, United StatesResistance Kitchen is a space for people who are organizing for equity, hope, and transformation in Washington Heights and the South Bronx, communities affected by food apartheid, to nourish themselves. Who is taking care of our Black and Brown community organizers? Who is feeding the movement? Resistance Kitchen is made of up of chefs of color who see cooking as a loving practice, food as medicine and also a place of trauma, and the kitchen as a practice ground to heal and connect with our body and each other.
Plant-Based Cooking Class: High Protein Meals
Riverbank State Park Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Dr, NY, United StatesCome learn with Woke Foods how to do effective meal prep plant-based dishes for the week at home as well as how to include important macro and micro nutrients in your plant based diet! A Woke Foods chef and a nutritionist will guide you through recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and/or snacks focused on flavors…
Resistance Kitchen: Preserving Summer Food for Fall and Winter with Raina Robinson
Kelly Street Garden 924 Kelly Street, Bronx, NY, United StatesResistance Kitchen is a space for people who are organizing for equity, hope, and transformation in Washington Heights and the South Bronx, communities affected by food apartheid, to nourish themselves. Who is taking care of our Black and Brown community organizers? Who is feeding the movement? Resistance Kitchen is made of up of chefs of color who see cooking as a loving practice, food as medicine and also a place of trauma, and the kitchen as a practice ground to heal and connect with our body and each other.
Food and Gentrification Workshop
Bank Note Building 1231 Lafayette Avenue, Bronx, NY, United StatesWhat is the relationship between food and gentrification?How does gentrification impact our relationship with and access to food in our communities? How do rising property values, policy, and people in power alter our foodscapes? What is our work in the face of these changes?Join us for a conversation with urban farmer and food justice activist, Karen Washington, community organizer with Take Back the Bronx, Sidney Negron, founder of Green Worker Cooperatives, Omar Freilla, and co-founder of Woke Foods, Ysanet Batista. Moderated by Woke Foods & Land Education Coordinator, Frances Perez-Rodriguez.Hosted by Woke Foods Food and Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Resistance Kitchen – Knife Skills and Equipping Your Kitchen
Knife Skills and Equipping Your Kitchen with Chef Gabriela Alvarez FREE WORKSHOP! Resistance Kitchen is a space for people who are organizing for equity, hope, and transformation in Washington Heights and the South Bronx. RevFit Harlem, 1637 Park Avenue New York, NY 10029 Sign up here
#SoYouWannaGrowFood IG Live [3 Part Series]
Instagram & Facebook LiveWoke Foods worker-owners, Ysanet and Frances, are excited to be going live on Instagram for a three-part series dedicated to the simple, yet powerful, action of starting seeds at home with the intention of growing food and medicine. Join us Monday 4/20, Wednesday 4/22, & Friday 4/24 from 3:00p to 4:00p ET. Monday, 4.20.20 -…
Catching Up with Woke Foods
Instagram & Facebook LiveTune into Instagram and Facebook Live to learn all the things Woke Foods has been doing, learning, and offering these past two years since COVID 19 Pandemic started
La Politica en Nuestra Comida // The Politics in Our Foods
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Centering the voices of community organizers and land stewards in the Dominican Republic and its Diaspora, join us for a panel discussion on the impact of government policy and systems of oppression on our access to food. Together we’ll build a shared understanding of what’s led to our dependency on a failed…