The next workshop in our four part, in person series exploring Filipino foodways where food, culture, and history come together as a source of nourishment, pride, and healing is Tinola Time with Chef & Farmer, Joy Aurora!

Rooted in an anti racist and decolonial framework, and funded by the Future Arts Network @futureartsnet & made possible in part by the Government of Canada, this series invites participants to cook together, share stories, and rediscover how traditional dishes carry ancestral knowledge and community values.

Tinola Time is an in-person cooking demonstration and shared learning space where participants gather around a beloved Filipino ginger broth to explore food, memory, and connection. Together, we’ll prepare vegetables, learn about the dish’s pre-colonial roots and nourishing ingredients, and talk through the ways culinary practices shift across homelands and migration.

Through hands-on prep and guided storytelling, the workshop invites people from different walks of life to reflect on who cooked for them, how recipes travel, and how meals can carry care, history, and community.

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Joy Aurora (they/them) is an Ilocano trans nonbinary chef and farmer currently living on stolen and unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ land. Having grown up in the farmlands in Pangasinan, they are deeply passionate about community, food justice, and Indigenous plants. Since graduating culinary school, they developed a drive to push boundaries of what working in the food industry could look like. Pursuing their drive to be grounded and rooted in the land to better understand food, they ventured into farming to expand their relationships with local organizations and farms as of 2020. With their experience as a chef and farmer, they have a desire to bridge the disconnection of food knowledge within the systems currently in place. They strive to continue to honour and learn from the land, to remain curious and playful, to share knowledge with their peers and the next generation, and to cultivate community care.

Registration is REQUIRED. Spots are limited. The link to register will be released via our newsletter on Friday, February 20th at 12 PM PST. Sign up for our newsletter here. Registration is now open!

All ages welcome. Any children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Please provide dietary considerations during registration. One form per participant for dietary needs-tracking purposes.

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