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Kitchen Talks: informal gartherings of Art and Food

What to Expect

Fresh Stalls is launching a new series of community events at the Food Lab in Lola Lokaal 432 to explore the connections between food, culture, health, and sustainability. The aim is to create informal, welcoming gatherings where cooking and eating together become a starting point for conversation.

❋ Meal preparation

For each event, selected guest chefs—artists and cultural practitioners—will invite participants to prepare a dish together. The shared meal will open up dialogue around their work, experiences, and the social or cultural themes they wish to bring into the neighbourhood.

❋ Conviviality

These are not formal art events, but convivial social occasions designed to connect IJburg residents, Lola Lokaal co-workers, and the wider community through food and storytelling.

❋ When

From late January to late June, we will host one gathering per month for small groups of up to 25 people.

❋ The Food Lab

The Food Lab is a shared kitchen and community space for collective, conscious cooking and neighborhood gatherings. It offers a place where people can meet, learn, and enjoy preparing healthy food together, using equipment that is open and accessible to all.

Kitchen Talks

Warak Dawali with Yazan Khalili

Join us for an evening of cooking, conversation, and community at Lola Lokaal. In this session, artist and cultural practitioner Yazan Khalili will guide us in preparing Warak Dawali—traditional stuffed vine leaves—while sharing stories and reflections connected to food, land, and everyday life in Palestine.

Yazan Khalili is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses memory, displacement, and colonial infrastructures. Through film, writing, and collaborative projects, he investigates how images shape political realities. He is a co-initiator of several independent cultural platforms in Palestine.

Date

Februrary 14th 2026

Timings

12.00 - 17.00

Tickets available

25/25

Choose your ticket

Food Fee

Food Fee + Artist Fee + Space Fee

Food Fee + Artist Fee

Donation

Write Kitchen Talks 1 in the payment description

Local 20, First Floor, Erich Salomonstraat 432, 1087 JA Amsterdam

Location

Kitchen Talks

Perde PIlav with Abdulkerim Pusat

Join us at Lola Lokaal for an evening of collective cooking and conversation. In this session, artist and cultural practitioner Abdulkerim Pusat will guide us in preparing Perde Pilav, a traditional celebratory dish from the Kurdish and Anatolian culinary tradition.

Abdulkerim Pusat is a refugee sociologist from Kurdistan and a Hestia junior researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He wrote about culture, society, ethics, music, and other topics for various magazines, websites, and newspapers.