Sunday Table

When traditions fade, what do we hold on to? How do we adapt when loss becomes part of our daily lives? Sunday Table is an intimate performance-lunch by Rachelle Traboulsi that dives into the themes of memory and loss.

Growing up in Lebanon, Sunday family lunches were moments of connection, sharing stories, and passed-down recipes. Over the years, these gatherings disappeared, through migration, political instability, and the passing of loved ones. Now, living far from home, Rachelle seeks to rebuild these moments of care, to grieve what is lost, while inviting audiences to gather around a new table.

Through food, movement, and personal stories, Sunday Table reflects on how traditions evolve: what do we keep, what do we let go of, and how do we create rituals that sustain us in new environments? In a time of climate crisis, when change, disruption, and loss are certain, the work resonates with the necessity of transformation, and the role of community in shaping adaptability.

Audiences are invited to witness and to take part, sharing a table as they imagine how to organise for the future. Sunday Table is a collective act of remembering and reimagining, honouring what was, while shaping what comes next.

Rachelle Traboulsi is an artist and community builder who creates spaces of connection and shared experience. Originally from Lebanon and based in the Netherlands since 2016, she worked for over a decade in the social development and humanitarian sector with organisations such as World Vision, the United Nations, and Free Press Unlimited. In recent years, she decided to focus on performance arts, creating her own theatre work that explores how we process memory and loss in order to move forward, using food as a medium to cultivate understanding, curiosity, and moments of togetherness.