Cooking From A Migrant Memory

This event will activate PAKGHOR, a project by Britto Arts Trust where the ecological and social space invites different communities in Riyadh to volunteer in cooking and engage in meaningful interactions with Biennale visitors.

Filipinos love to eat and cook together; cooking as a migrant is a poetic performance involving nostalgia and memory. Recipes passed from parents and grandparents become family history archives, symbolizing remembrance, comfort, and adaptation to a foreign land.

Ang Pagluluto sa Linamnam ng Alaala (Cooking from a Migrant Memory) is a storytelling cooking research project tracing Filipino migrant histories through cooking and food.

Who is this for: all ages

What you will gain: Combining cooking, poetry, and storytelling, Sa Tahanan Collective recreates recipes from Filipino curators and artists from the diaspora. These Filipino dishes connect them to their Filipinoness, narrating stories of longing, desire, and displacement. They are reflective of intergenerational migratory journeys, recipes changing based on geographical food resources.

Attendees will feast together in a Filipino-style salo-salo. The recipes are available in a cookbook produced for the Biennale, with limited copies available at the event.

The Menu of the day will be:

Monggo Guisado - A recipe by James Clar

Spamsilog - A recipe Stephanie Comilang

Please note that this is a first-come, first-served activation as the food will be available until it runs out.

Contributors: James Clar, Stephanie Comilang, Alexis Convento, Renan Laru-an, Jou Pabalate, Ayman Tamano