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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

How to use local plant based ingredients – including fruit, vegetables, and flowers – as a basis for creative cooking and as an art form itself? Can plants, fruits, and vegetables replace the traditional flower vase arrangement in a more sustainable and contemporary way? How does the sustainable flower arrangement of the future look like?

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CAMILLA GJERDE & CECILIA MAGNUSSON

“We don’t want any crap in our wine!” Natural wine producer Francesca Padovani is clear. And so are many other natural growers around the world.

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KULTURHAVN FESTIVAL

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Archive Page for the past event during KULTURHAVN with author Lesley-Ann Brown (Blackgirl on Mars) on August 28, 2021. Moderator for the event was curator Malou Solfjeld.

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PARYS GARDENER

“I’m massively inspired by the strength and the legacies of my grandparents, particularly my grandmothers who were part of the Windrush generation. The more I learn about their lives, the more I become inspired to work hard. I’m also extremely proud of my heritage and I find the theories surrounding cultural identity fascinating.

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CARRIE MAE WEEMS

“The Kitchen Table Series depicts the battle around the family . . .

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ILSE GIJSBERTS

“I work from a place of freedom, because everything is possible in my surreal paper world.” Ilse Gijsberts (the Netherlands) is the second artist to present her work at The Caribbean Housewife. Her surrealist collages tell intriguing stories about dreams and universal human emotions, such as fear, frustration, love, and hope.

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JEANNETTE EHLERS

“Based on my own Danish West Indian background, I examine and process themes related to the transatlantic slave trade that, despite the predominant collective repression, still play an important part in our society. My work is a personal taking history to task and a protest against the suppression of and often ignorant attitude towards these problems that I meet in this part of the world.” Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark) is the first artist at The Caribbean Housewife.

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