Hanal Pixan: Food For All Souls is a combined arts project culminating in an immersive dining experience inspired by Mexican Day of the Dead - specifically the ‘Hanal Pixan’ (pronounced: ‘han-al peesh-an’) traditions of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico - with a focus on the shared cultural heritage of corn maize farming, cultivation, and cuisine between Mexico and the UK.

We envisage our production to include: live cooking, shared meals, ritual actions, audience interaction, communal altar building, audiovisual soundscapes, video projections, to create an unforgettable multimedia, multisensory experience. Hanal Pixan will explore the themes of death and rebirth, ancestors, eating and consuming, ritual and ceremony, indegenous land resistance, and climate change - in relation and in remembrance of the shared deaths caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and Mexico.

DOORS CLOSE AT: 6:30pm

LOCATION: The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Deritend, Birmingham B12 0QH