Slices & Spices – On Food and Community

• The event takes place on the forecourt of the museum. The ground is uneven. 
• The forecourt is accessible without steps. Wheelchairs can be borrowed free of charge from the checkroom.
• There are raised wooden platforms 25 cm high on the long sides of the forecourt. There are seats and planters on these. One of the platforms is accessible via a ramp.
• There is no tactile floor guidance system on the forecourt.
• There is seating with and without backrests.
• The event is held in German spoken language. There is no translation into Easy Language and German Sign Language.
• Speeches are amplified via loudspeakers. There is no hearing amplification in the form of neckloops.
• Drinking water will be provided free of charge. Other drinks are available for an additional charge. The bar counter is not wheelchair accessible.
• Access to the museum is possible via a power-assisted door, about 15 m to the right of the main entrance at the glass front.
• Toilets and an accessible WC are located in the museum foyer next to the checkroom. These are marked with pictograms and Braille lettering. The door to the accessible toilet opens via a touch button.
• Two awareness staff will be on site during the event. They can be recognized by a button with the initials “BG”. There is also an information table.

Information on directions can be found here: https://berlinischegalerie.de/besuch/service

TDD Bon Appétit was founded in 2007 as a supper club by artist Gülsüm Güler and educator İnci Güler. The team hosts gatherings and culinary interventions in temporarily used spaces, transforming their atmosphere through their practice of “site-specific cooking”. In 2022, TDD published Flavours & Friends, a book documenting their community-based culinary practice for large groups with more than 100 recipes.

Fallon Tiffany Cabral explores how race and racism are negotiated within Black families and Families of Colour in Germany. She is particularly interested in peculiar and often hidden (post)colonial traces in diasporic family life. In 2023, together with Meryem Choukri, she co-edited “Biting Back. Essen, Diaspora, Widerstand” – a playful collection of essays that connects food with poetics of resistance, lived experiences, and feminist social analysis.

Maryam Gardisi is the managing director of IPSO (International Psychosocial Organisation). As a trained economist and cultural scientist, she has spent around 20 years working on a wide range of projects supporting disadvantaged people. Her focus lies on the inclusion of refugees in social systems and in particular on their mental health and psychosocial care.