Food Junctions: a cross-cultural festival packed with flavour

Food Junctions is a new student-run festival that crosses cultures, countries and communities to celebrate the fabric of food in all its forms. Food Junctions is designed to promote healthy living and local food production, as well as to encourage visitors to explore the world of food politics, culture and research. It forms part of the Reveal festival in Kings Cross and the Camley Street Natural Park's 25th Anniversary Festival. Running over two weekends from 24 April to 2 May, Food Junctions will feature more than 200 contributors from the academic community and beyond. The festival is jam-packed with a smorgasbord of free events including talks, hands-on workshops, demonstrations, tasting sessions, art and architecture installations, performance, film and much more. The audio soundscape below (6 mins 49) provides a taste of the experiences to come and features urban beekeeper Brian McCallum, wine tasting expert Professor Kathleen Burk (UCL History), Curator Mark Carnell (UCL Grant Museum) on why we aren?t eating our cats, and poetry extracts from Tim Wells and Simon Barraclough from Poet in the City. A series of food-related films is also available to watch on UCL's YouTube channel at the link above.