Fizz Feest - learn about and celebrate fermented+preserved foods

in honor of harvest season, fizz feest is a one-day mini festival to enjoy and learn about fermented and preserved foods. entry is free, we have workshops, a prize raffle fundraiser, and will enjoy a small meal together at the end. 

1300h-1600h on saturday, october 25th at nieuwland, near muiderpoort train station in dapperbuurt, amsterdam 

SCHEDULE

1300- 

preserving memory … pickling the archive…

with Krijpfruit Collective

Archives are often portrayed and understood as stuffy old rooms, or hyper-efficient libraries: while this might be the case for some, it’s definitely not for all, or most. As artists and activists we see that the reality of the archive is oftentimes different: that of a living creature, taking the form of a box of collective memorabilia living under your bed, or the tangle of roughly written code behind a self-made website. While the archive rebels against our attempts at domestication, its contents won’t stagnate or rot. On the contrary, they will bubble and gurgle and spill out of their jar, while changing its texture and becoming rich with flavour in the process.

During this workshop, we will use preservation as a starting point to reflect on memory and the strategies we use to preserve it. Flavours and scents are often able to reach far deeper in memory than visual cues, and preservation allows us to be transported across time and place – in a different time, where apricots are in season, or in a different place, where the heat from the sun can dry tomatoes. You will be invited in taking part in a group conversation about this topic while tasting many delicious preserved food!

About us: The knijpfruit collective is two friends who are mainly obsessed with the fruit snack baby food but also activists within the queer community and practicing artists with different backgrounds. Ari is a self-taught illustrator, working in the NGO-world focusing on homelessness and harm reduction. Leyla is an artistic researcher working with performance art and creative methods to engage mostly young audiences in the art world.

1400

choose your own adventure: water bath canning or make your own vegan kimchi or vegan fish sauce 

1500

roll the dice to make new and wild pickle/ferment combos 

using a technique developed by anbo shefa, we will use dungeons and dragon dice to "choose" which ingredients and techniques to combine into a pickle/ferment. some will be gnar, some will be tasty, let's find out! 

1530 

prize raffle fundraiser and small meal to close out the day! 

for 5 euros you can support some great causes AND win a prize. you can choose where your donation goes. do you want to fight ICE in the States? support antifascists closer to home? win some delicious gochugaru, pickling spices, kesbeke pickle candy, and more!