Terra Madre Day Celebrations Across Canada & Around the World
Terra Madre Day is December 10th, 2009 when we also celebrate Slow Food’s 20th anniversary. People will gather all around the world to celebrate locally produced food that is good, clean and fair.
You can read below a list of events scheduled in your country followed by some examples of planned worldwide celebrations according to each one of the seven pillars that guide the Terra Madre Day. The pillars stand for our values and wishes for the future, which we declare to be a right for all communities. For further info: Visit the Slow Food Terra Madre site
• Alberta Locavore Challenge at-home dinners
Convivium: Calgary
10 December 2009
CALGARY, Canada
Slow Food Calgary is celebrating local food by hosting at-home dinners using
local ingredients. Each dinner host will collect funds from guests; all
funds collected will go toward sending an Albertan Youth delegate to Torino
in 2010 to attend Terra Madre. Some of Alberta’s Terra Madre delegates will
host dinners, and others will attend dinners as guests to recount how Terra
Madre has influenced their business practises and personal lives.
Coordinator: Dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Contact: fanny@nucleus.com
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
private homes across Alberta, including Kayben Farms, Okotoks, where 2 SAIT
culinary students will spearhead dinner based on locally sourced foods
including elk short ribs, beets, potatoes, and turkey. Guests to include
SAIT students, local producers and Terra Madre delegates. We will share our
meal and our thoughts about Slow living, and pass the hat to support a youth
delegate to Torino in 2010.
• Introducing Our Kids to the World of Food
Convivium: Calgary
10 December 2009
CALGARY, Canada
Bring your kids to celebrate the wonderful world of food and the pleasures
of eating with family and friends. It is hard to introduce kids to new and
different foods but we have to keep on trying!
Coordinator: Madeline Duffin
Contact: madelineduffin952@hotmail.com
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
at home
1722-27 ave s.w.
T2T1G8 CALGARY
Alberta, Canada
• Feast on our Farm!
Convivium: Calgary
10 December 2009
CASTOR, Canada
We will prepare a feast from different food produced on our farm. We are
inviting twenty guests. We will then watch the DVD ‘Food Inc’., have
discussions and pass the hat to support a young person to attend Terra Madre
next year.
Coordinator: Kathleen Charpentier
Contact: grebe6@telus.net 403-882-3935
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
On our farm: two miles south of Castor
Box 521
T0C 0X0 CASTOR
Alberta, Canada
• A ‘Feis’ in North America’s First Slow City
Organization: Feis
10 December 2009
DUNCAN, Canada
A Terra Madre Day Feis in Cowichan Bay, (the First Cittaslow Member in North
America). In Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, Terra Madre Day will be
commemorated by Feis, a local organization founded to celebrate the natural
and cultural diversity of the Cowichan Valley. Feis is the Gaelic word for
festival, associated with communal gatherings, music, dancing, food, drink,
and conversation. On December 10th forty guests will celebrate the diversity
in our community with a reception at the art gallery of renowned local First
Nations artist, Arthur Vickers, listen to literary readings, and local music
at the Masthead Restaurant (a building built in 1863 as the Columbia Hotel)
overlooking the Bay and enjoy a selection of local foods (such as duck fresh
from a farm a mile up the road) and wines from the Cowichan Valley.
Coordinator: Gloria Lorenzen
Contact: glogray@shaw.ca
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
The Masthead Restaurant, Cowichan Bay
1705 Cowichan Bay Road
V0R1N1 DUNCAN
British Columbia, Canada
• Screening of The Islands Project by Chef Michael Stadtlander
Convivium: Edmonton
10 December 2009
EDMONTON, Canada
First screening of Chef Michael Stadtlander’s “The Islands Project” in
Edmonton. During the summer of 2006, chef Michael Stadtlander journeyed on
his biodiesel/solar powered kitchen bus, returning to the province that
nurtured and inspired his early days as a chef. He encountered artists,
farmers, oyster cultivators, environmentalists and loggers dedicated to
environmentally sustainable business practices and the bounty of their
islands.In plein-air dinners made with locally raised and foraged
ingredients he lavishes his local guests with the delectable creations of
his edible art. For the past 10 years Michael and his wife Nobuyo have
welcomed small groups of visitors to the farm to enjoy haute cuisine created
from ingredients produced on Eigensinn or neighbouring farms.
Coordinator: Mary Bailey
Contact: marybee@shaw.ca 780 431-1802
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
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T6E 2G1 EDMONTON
Alberta, Canada
• 10 décembre + 10 ingrédients = 20 ans de Slow Food
Convivium: Outaouais
10 Décembre 2009
GATINEAU, Canada
En ce jour de Terra Madre Day, le restaurant le Café du Musée offrira un
menu composé uniquement de produits régionaux qui n’auront pas voyagé sur
plus de 100km du Musée. Nous mettrons l’accent sur des produits tels que:
- le poulet de grain Aux Saveurs des Monts,
- les champignons le Coprin,
- le fromage de chèvre Floralpe,
- la truite Cedar creek,
- le sanglier par Toutatis,
- l’agneau de la Ferme des Vennes
- ainsi que de légumes pour la garniture en provenance de notre région.
Coordinateur: Georges Laurier
Contacts: georges.laurier@compass-canada.com 819-776-7073
Où se déroulera votre événement Terra Madre Day:
Café du Musée, Musée canadien des civilisations
100 rue Laurier
J8X 4H2 GATINEAU
Québec, Canada
• Nova Scotia Multiple-Restaurant Locally Sourced Dinners
Convivium: Nova Scotia
10 December 2009
HALIFAX, WOLFVILLE, ETC., Canada
Slow Food chefs from around Nova Scotia will prepare a reasonably priced
locally sourced dinner and make it available on December 10th to all
customers. This will be promoted through ALL restaurant patron email lists,
to Slow Food convivium members and the general public. The dinner will
include appetizer, main a and dessert from Nova Scotia products, with Nova
Scotia wines available too. Visit www.slowfoodns.blogspot.com for details
Coordinator: Michael Howell
Contact: mail@slowfoodns.ca 1 902 542 0588
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Various Restaurants in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
HALIFAX, WOLFVILLE, ETC.
Nova Scotia, Canada
• Holiday Eco-Schmooze
Convivium: Hamilton
10 December 2009
HAMILTON, Canada
Slow Food Hamilton along with Green Drinks Hamilton will celebrate the
holiday season, local food and drink, and the people who provide it.
Organized merriment will include carol-singing, appetizers and showing of
the film ‘A Farm for the Future’ @ 7pm. Participation fee $5 or pay what
you can afford.
Coordinator: Karen Burson
Contact: kcburs@yahoo.com 905-523-7270
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Tapestry Bistro
27 Dundurn Street North
L8R 3C9 HAMILTON
Ontario, Canada
• Simple and Slow at Home
Organization: Caledonia Organic Farm
10 December 2009
HARRIS, Canada
Our family will celebrate Terra Madre Day with a simple ‘Slow’ style meal at
home on the farm. New to the menu will be raw food choices – tasty foods
that maintain their nutritional integrity without cooking. Though humble, we
will celebrate the evening by honouring the bounty of earth and homespun
Celtic music later.
Coordinator: Pamela Irving
Contact: livingcomms@telus.net
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Caledonia Organic Farm
PO Box 244
S0L 1K0 HARRIS
SK, Canada
• A Slow Taste of Titan Cafe
Convivium: London, Ontario
10 December 2009
LONDON, Canada
As a teacher candidate from The Faculty of Education at the University of
Western Ontario I have been placed at Regina Mundi for practicum (practice
teaching). My Associate Teacher, Corine Bacon, is a supporter of
sustainability and of course education. She teaches grades 10, 11 and 12 and
runs a small restaurant in the school for the staff (The Titan Cafe). Since
my practicum falls during the anniversary of Slow Food I thought the
students would benefit from classes on the Slow Food movement and culminate
with the students cooking a local, seasonal and, where possible, organic
meal to be shared by the staff and students themselves. They could gather
around the table and discuss what they learned and how Slow Food and its
philosophy is so important to safety of our food system and our world.
Coordinator: Kent Van Dyk
Contact: kvdchef@yahoo.ca 1-519-495-3609
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Regina Mundi Catholic College
5250 Wellington Road S
N6E 3X8 LONDON
Ontario, Canada
• Mortlach Local Growers Day
Organization: Hollyhock Market Natural Foods
9 December 2009
MORTLACH, Canada
Hollyhock Market Natural Foods is sponsoring our first annual Terra Madre
Day event on December 9 at the Mortlach Community Hall. We will enjoy an
afternoon of culinary adventure with a couple of our favorite chefs, some
awesome local ingredients and the company of friends. The movie Food, Inc.
will be available for showing and discussion, and we anticipate that some of
our local suppliers will be on hand to answer questions about their farms
and gardens. We will also be dicussing our upcoming veggie garden club, as
we’ve had lots of interest from people who’ve never grown their own food
before but want to start.
Coordinator: Lois and Clayton Jack
Contact: hollyhockmarket@sasktel.net 306-355-2201
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Mortlach Community Hall
Rose St
S0H 3E0 MORTLACH
Saskatchewan, Canada
• Okanagan Locavore Challenge
10 December 2009
NARAMATA, Canada
Discover Naramata will mark the occasion by promoting the Okanagan Locavore
Challenge! The idea is simple: We ask that people in our community – yes you
- host a dinner on December 10th built from locally grown and raised foods.
Aside from the local food proviso and, we hope, a convivial spirit, these
dinners may adopt whatever character or form the organizers and guests
desire – big, small, formal, casual, potluck, multi-course, one big pot. Let
creativity reign!
Coordinator: Discover Naramata
Contact: slow@discovernaramata.com
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Community Residences
V0H 1N0 NARAMATA
BC, Canada
• Projet écoalimentaire “bon, propre et juste”
Convivium: Vallée de la Batiscan, Mauricie Québec
Organisation: Héritage Vallée de la Batiscan
4 Décembre 2009
SAINT-ADELPHE, Canada
POur Terra Madre day, nous rèalisons une activité pédagogique ouverte au
grand public, mettant en jeu les étudiants en Techniques de diététiques du
Cegep de Trois-Rivières.
Une trentaine d’étudiants prépareront différents stands d’information dans
le cadre de leur cours en communication et alimentation. Les étudiants
commenteront, expliqueront, et développeront des arguments sur la
consommation éclairée et sur le choix des aliments locaux, à l’aide d’outils
promotionnels de l’agriculture locale, prônant le développement de marché de
proximité dans le cadre de leur cours.
Cette activité grand public est inscrite dans le cadre du projet
écoalimentaire intitulé “Bon, propre et juste” initié par Héritage Vallée de
la Batiscan, organe de gestion du convivium Slow Food Vallée de la Batiscan,
en collaboration avec les professeurs du Département de techniques de
diététiques du CEGEP de Trois-Rivières, et l’Association québécoise pour la
promotion de l’éducation relative à l’environnement.
À la fin de leur formation de 3 ans, 200 élèves seront la première cohorte à
avoir reçu une formation écocitoyenne, impliquant 10 professeurs et un
comité de mise en oeuvre formé de 10 agriculteurs, transformateurs et
citoyens impliqués dans le développement rural.
Cette “communauté apprenante” bénéfice déjà de nouvelles compétences,
qu’elles sera fière de présenter au public ce jour là.
Coordinateur: Johane Germain
Contacts: jogermain@globetrotter.net (418) 322-5631
Où se déroulera votre événement Terra Madre Day:
Trois-Rivières
1097, route 352
G0X 2G0 SAINT-ADELPHE
Mauricie Québec, Canada
• Local Dinner and Film Screening
Convivium: Pelham
10 December 2009
ST CATHARINES, Canada
Slow Food Pelham will celebrate Terra Madre Day with a dinner based on the
local products of the Naigara region and the screening of “Hijacked Future”.
Coordinator: Renée Girard
Contact: prima_renee@hotmail.com 905 892 8022
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Pan Cafe
120 St Paul St
L0S 1M0 ST CATHARINES
Ontario, Canada
• Dinner and a Movie
Convivium: Perth County
10 December 2009
STRATFORD, Canada
Dinner at Screaming Avocado Cafe prepared by Students of the school’s
Culinary Arts program (headed up by teacher and Slow Food member chef Paul
Finkelstein), followed by screening of “Food, Inc.”, a documentary by
filmmaker Robert Kenner that lifts the veil on America’s food industry,
exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the
American consumer with the consent of their government’s regulatory
agencies, USDA and FDA.
Coordinator: Laurie Knechtel
Contact: info@slowfoodperthcounty.ca
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Screaming Avocado Cafe, NorthWestern Secondary School
428 Forman Avenue
N5A 6R7 STRATFORD
Ontario, Canada
• Berries Gone Wild
Convivium: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Organization: Cape Breton Farmers’ Market
12 December 2009
SYDNEY, Canada
At our Saturday farmers’ market we will promote and celebrate blueberries
and cranberries that are native to our island of Cape Breton. Several of our
vendors will prepare dishes that incorporate the berries including muffins,
loaves, pancakes, relishes and sauces. We will distribute recipes for
distribution to those of our customers who wish to follow them in their own
kitchens, using our locally-produced wild berries. Our indoor market will be
decorated in the colors of blue and red, under the heading “Berries Gone
Wild”!
Coordinator: Sharon Mac Donald
Contact: sharrick@ns.sympatico.ca 902.564.2080
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Cape Breton Farmers’ Market
340 Keltic Drive (PO Box 153, Stn. A)
B1P 6H1 SYDNEY
Nova Scotia, Canada
• Terra Madre Day at the ROM
Convivium: Toronto
10 December 2009
TORONTO, Canada
We have two restaurants in our museum. Food Studio, the cafe for all museum
patrons will serve an All-Ontario lunch, with one or two producers in the
cafe to chat with guests and sample their foods. In c5, our fine dining
restaurant, we are having a Green Gastronomy event, with a kosher chef
(connections with our Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit). We are very excited to
incorporate Slow Food messages of local, small scale production into our
regular offerings in the museum.
Coordinator: Joshna Maharaj
Contact: joshna.maharaj@compass-canada.com 416-419-5250
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park
M5S 2C6 TORONTO
Ontario, Canada
• Slow Food Toronto: Celebrating Local Food
Convivium: Toronto
10 December 2009
TORONTO, Canada
The Slow Food Toronto convivium will celebrate Ontario’s local food
community with delicious sustainable offerings held at FoodShare on Terra
Madre Day. Travel through the various stations, sampling delicious local
products and have the opportunity to connect with the people who produce,
raise, grow and cook it all!
For more information
Slow Food Toronto: http://toronto.slowfood.ca/
FoodShare: www.foodshare.net
From 6-9pm. Participation fee $10 at the door, no cost for kids under 12.
Coordinator: Paul DeCampo
Contact: paul@toronto.slowfood.ca 416 657-1569
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
FoodShare Toronto
90 Croatia St
M6H 1K9 TORONTO
ON, Canada
• Dîner gustatif
Convivium: Abitibi-Témiscamingue
10 Décembre 2009
VAL-D’OR, Canada
Il s’agit d’un dîner ou des producteurs et leurs produits seront mis en
évidence en les présentant de façon différente.
Coordinateur: Norman Laflamme
Contacts: norman.laflamme@dec-ced.gc.ca 1.819.825.5260
Où se déroulera votre événement Terra Madre Day:
Avantage Bar Terrasse
576, 3 rue
J9P 1S5 VAL-D’OR
Québec, Canada
• Terra Madre Day Celebration
Convivium: Slow Food Vancouver
10 December 2009
VANCOUVER, Canada
Slow Food Vancouver and Farm Folk/City Folk are organizing a Terra Madre Day
event to showcase producers and cooks by pairing local farmers with local
chefs to offer up some of amazing food products British Columbia has to
offer.
We plan to showcase the work of academics, students, and youth by inviting
people engaged in food education to join us. We are also asking
representatives of Terra Madre food communities in our region to briefly
share their answer to the question: “What does it mean to reconnect with
local food, and why is it important?”
Red Fife Wheat, the only Canadian Slow Food Presidia project, is being
showcased at the event with the assistance of producers, bakers and the
Heritage Grains Foundation. We want to have the products in the Ark include
a sensory experience. There is no charge for Slow Food members to attend if
they are participating in the AGM, and we thank the Italian Cultural Centre
for sponsoring our event.
Slow Food Vancouver has an Adopt-A-Farmer Campaign to raise funds to send
local youth farmers to Terra Madre 2010. Our objectives are to introduce the
nomination criteria for the Adopt-A-Farmer campaign and to present all
elements of Terra Madre: producers from various food communities (including
those who have attended Terra Madre in 2004, 2006 and 2008); cooks,
academics, youth, music, the Ark of Taste and the Presidia. Net proceeds
from the event will go to the fund sending our local youth farmers to Terra
Madre 2010.
Coordinator: Joanne MacKinnon
Contact: Joanne@slowfoodvancouver.com 778 9983471
Location of Terra Madre Day event:
Italian Cultural Centre
3075 Slocan Street
V5V 1J3 VANCOUVER
BC, Canada
Terra Madre Day – The seven pillars
Examples from all around the world
The very first worldwide Terra Madre Day is to be held on December 10, 2009
to celebrate locally produced food that is good, clean and fair: food that
tastes good and is produced without harming the environment and taking
social justice issues into consideration.
December 10 is Slow Food’s 20th anniversary, two decades after the signing
of the Slow Food Manifesto in Paris in 1989 that started the international
association. Slow Food has chosen to celebrate its first 20 years with Terra
Madre Day in recognition of these communities’ remarkable achievements and
their crucial role for the future of food.
Terra Madre Day will be one of the largest collective celebrations of food
diversity ever achieved on a global scale, celebrated in endless ways in all
corners of the world, from small gatherings to large events. Terra Madre Day
is guided by seven pillars that reflect our values and hopes for the future
and which we demand as a right for all communities. Here are some examples
of planned celebrations according to each pillar:
Access to good, clean and fair food Slow Food in the Canteen
France – Slow Food Bayonne has been working with local primary schools to
improve their canteens for years now, and will reflect on and share their
results on Terra Madre Day. A total of 4,000 pupils are now served meals by
a local social enterprise, which hires the unemployed and disabled and uses
produce sourced from within a 30-km radius. Once a week a completely organic
meal is served and the children are responding very well to the new taste of
their cafeteria. Terra Madre Day will provide an exciting opportunity and a
landmark moment for the project. Parents, students, the local mayor and
officials will come together to renew their commitment to the project which
celebrates all that Slow Food stands for: good, clean and fair food and
Taste Education.
The Bayonne project is also part of the Slow Food European Canteen Network.
• Agricultural and food biodiversity
Endangered Foods and Local Dishes
Uganda – The Central Convivium in Mukono will contribute to protecting local
biodiversity at their Terra Madre Day event, “Endangered Foods and Local
Dishes.” A large number of the fruits and vegetables once frequently eaten
in the past are no longer commonly available in Uganda, and so the convivium
has asked members from various parts of the country to track down some of
these varieties and reintroduce them to the public on Terra Madre Day. The
day will also include a seed collection to help prevent these foods from
becoming extinct. The event will wind up with a closing party and a tasting
of juices and fruits from across the country.
• Small-scale food production Glimpses of Terra Madre
India – To celebrate small-scale food production around the world, the
people of Varanasi will share and relive the coming together of food
communities at Terra Madre 2008 with a photo exhibition that tells the story
of the five-day world meeting. This biennial event launched the Terra Madre
network back in 2004, and brings together farmers and food producers from
150 countries, connecting them with cooks, educators and young people to
discuss how to collaboratively improve the food system. Visitors to the
exhibition entitled “Glimpses of Terra Madre 2008” will see many cultures,
lifestyles and lands through the faces and expressions of small-scale
farmers, fisherfolk and artisans from all around the world – together a
united force for a better food future. The exhibition will also display
images of the food culture of rural and urban people in India
• Food sovereignty
Down with Fast Food in Dhaka
Bangladesh – The right to knowledge and freedom to decide what to grow, how
food is processed and what makes up our daily diet will be defended in
Bangladesh as an expected 500 people rally and collect signatures against
toxic and fast food. This campaign for the protection of slow and
traditional food demands a halt to the proliferation of fast-food chains
throughout Asia, as they threaten traditional diets, small-scale production
and biodiversity. Exercising their rights for culturally appropriate and
healthy food options, the group will meet in front of the National Museum of
Bangladesh, collecting signatures from local people and raising awareness
about the unhealthy options offered by global industrialized food providers.
• Language, culture and traditional knowledge Tribute to Mother Earth,
Provider of All Life
Mexico – In the village of Cerro Armadillo, Terra Madre Day celebrations
will be centered around traditional and religious rituals, starting with a
thanksgiving and prayer for good harvests for corn, beans, coffee, vanilla
and other local crops. Producers and their families will arrive at the Cerro
Armadillo church early on December 10, bringing different regional products
with them. Small parcels of seeds will be placed at the four cardinal points
of the altar as an offering to Mother Earth. These will be blessed and
presented by a young girl wearing a traditional, hand-woven Chinanteca
dress. After the ceremony, an elder from the village will offer food
prepared with over 40 locally grown ingredients. Corn will be used in many
dishes, with white, black and yellow corn tortillas as well as tamales and
fermented drinks. The producers’ families will all attend, joined by
inhabitants from Tuxtepec and other towns from further away who are keen to
be part of this unique indigenous experience. Vanilla from the Chinantla
Presidium will also be offered to the visitors and the event will conclude
with the ritual burying of a small amount of each product, to give thanks to
the earth for the life she is giving us.
• Environmentally responsible food production Long Table Against GMOs
Germany – Producers and co-producers from the Ulm region will unite in their
resistance to genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) with a long-table meal.
Organized by the Alliance for a GMO-free Region (around) Ulm, the event will
highlight the need for us to recognize that our food choices are strongly
linked to the health of the environment, and draw attention to the harm
caused by GMO crops and foods. Inspired by the advice of Slow Food
International Vice-President Vandana Shiva to “eat lentils, rice and
vegetables” the meal will be centered on these foods, all provided by local
farmers. The food offered will be an example of a perfectly healthy and
balanced meal, and the event will highlight the need to eat less meat in
order to move towards true sustainability.
• Fair and sustainable trade Along the Farmers’ Road
Chile – Fair and sustainable trade starts by building support for local
producers in our area, and to encourage this the Frontera del Sur Convivium
has organized a full-day excursion to visit farmers in the nearby region.
Everyone concerned about the continuing production of good, healthy, local
food is invited to join in a walk that will take them to visit the men and
women who work in the fields and produce artisanal food, including producers
from the Blue Egg Presidium. There will be time to talk with them, to
understand how they produce their specialties and to buy food directly from
them. The aim of this Terra Madre Day event is to emphasize to the local
community how short food supply chains are one of the key elements of
sustainable agriculture, allowing us to reach a fair financial outcome for
producers and consumers alike.
View the map on the Terra Madre Day website to find events going on around
the world.
For further info on Slow Food: www.slowfood.com
For further info on Terra Madre: www.terramadre.org
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