H U N G E R
A collaboration with The Dean of Coventry Cathedral
Are you hungry and what are you hungry for?
The Coventry Peace TABLE took up a residency at Sir Basil Spence’s modernist Coventry Cathedral. The Table continued to serve as an object that stimulated and promoted gatherings, meetings and conversations in the setting of this iconic location.
On Thursday November 5th 2015, the TABLE once again played host to a specially designed meal event called ‘Hunger’, celebrating Coventry Peace Festival 2015 and six months in residency at the Cathedral.
‘Hunger’ is a gathering that brings people together from across the city to share in a series of themed conversations about what shapes and defines culture and the role that our eating styles, habits and preferences play within that. Alongside topical discussions inspired by Coventry’s proposed City of Culture 2021 bid and , street food representing different areas of the World and also areas of the city centre will be served.
“The Cathedral is a wildly different environment to the City Arcade. The act of hosting the first two meals in the arcade was an act of transformation and a question about how public spaces are used and can be inhabited in the future.
“Through the ‘Hunger’ event, the intention is to bring the city and its high street into the Cathedral and to encourage discussions about how people attending feel about the future of the city, how cultures are represented, inhabit and will inhabit the city going forward. The Cathedral is an ideal location as the centre-piece of the Modernist post-war redevelopment of Coventry and an icon of the zeal and optimism about the city’s future.
“‘Hunger’ is revisiting this conversation in light of the City of Culture 2021 bid announcements and asks about who and what ‘cultures’ might be represented within that., Speaking with caterers that usually feed different people, tastes, faiths and dietary requirements we asked ‘who feeds who?’ in the city. What we’ve ended up with is a reflection of these responses in food and topics, which will be offered up on the evening by City Arcadia networks and some of the artists we are working with” ”
A collaboration with The Dean of Coventry Cathedral
Are you hungry and what are you hungry for?
The Coventry Peace TABLE took up a residency at Sir Basil Spence’s modernist Coventry Cathedral. The Table continued to serve as an object that stimulated and promoted gatherings, meetings and conversations in the setting of this iconic location.
On Thursday November 5th 2015, the TABLE once again played host to a specially designed meal event called ‘Hunger’, celebrating Coventry Peace Festival 2015 and six months in residency at the Cathedral.
‘Hunger’ is a gathering that brings people together from across the city to share in a series of themed conversations about what shapes and defines culture and the role that our eating styles, habits and preferences play within that. Alongside topical discussions inspired by Coventry’s proposed City of Culture 2021 bid and , street food representing different areas of the World and also areas of the city centre will be served.
“The Cathedral is a wildly different environment to the City Arcade. The act of hosting the first two meals in the arcade was an act of transformation and a question about how public spaces are used and can be inhabited in the future.
“Through the ‘Hunger’ event, the intention is to bring the city and its high street into the Cathedral and to encourage discussions about how people attending feel about the future of the city, how cultures are represented, inhabit and will inhabit the city going forward. The Cathedral is an ideal location as the centre-piece of the Modernist post-war redevelopment of Coventry and an icon of the zeal and optimism about the city’s future.
“‘Hunger’ is revisiting this conversation in light of the City of Culture 2021 bid announcements and asks about who and what ‘cultures’ might be represented within that., Speaking with caterers that usually feed different people, tastes, faiths and dietary requirements we asked ‘who feeds who?’ in the city. What we’ve ended up with is a reflection of these responses in food and topics, which will be offered up on the evening by City Arcadia networks and some of the artists we are working with” ”