NOURISH: Dumpling Gathering
Thu Oct 10 2024
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
On Thursday, October 10, join us at The Power Plant for NOURISH: Dumpling Gathering at the intersection of art, food, and community!
Together with DESIGNwith Lab, we’ll gather for an informative lecture exploring how thoughtful design practice can foster deeper connections within our communities, followed by a soulful meal to cultivate togetherness through the lens of a humble yet profound culinary creation: the dumpling.
We’ll start the evening with a presentation by Industrial Design Professor and founder of DESIGNwith Ranee Lee. As professor Lee explores the concepts of caring design practice and third spaces, a guest chef will prepare homemade vegan dumplings utilizing NOURISH, an innovative social wellness mobile kitchen designed by the lab.
Participants will be invited to enjoy the meal and, later, proceed for a private viewing of Lap-See Lam’s Floating Sea Palace, an exhibition inspired by a three-storey dragon-shaped Chinese ship restaurant called Sea Palace that sailed from Shanghai to Europe in the early 1990s. We'll explore Lam’s immersive video installation that draws on traditional storytelling forms of Cantonese opera and shadow play puppetry, reflecting on how memory and tradition shift through time and migration.
All proceeds from this event will go towards supporting free community initiatives at The Power Plant and DESIGNwith Lab. DONATE HERE.
Lap-See Lam, still from Floating Sea Palace, 2024. Courtesy the artist; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin/Stockholm/Mexico City; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Vega Foundation; Studio Voltaire, London; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto.