Power of Food Festival Closing Event

The closing event will mark the end of the Power of Food Festival and celebrate everyone involved, with activities designed to nourish our food movement – restoring our energies for the season ahead. 

There will be

🎥 Video footage and photos from the last 10 days - celebrating everyone involved in the festival

🧵 ️Crafting for a giant patchwork quilt. The quilt represents how people in the borough are collaborating, connecting and joining together around food. It will be a physical manifestation of the community, cultural diversity, food, activism, wisdom and skills that exists in Tower Hamlets.  

🫖 Nourishing activities – including making bath salt bundles with Sunny Jar Eco Hub, herbal teas with Hackney Herbal and candle making with Bushwood Bees.

☕ Carrom Board playing and chai tea from Swadhinata Trust

🍽️ A shared meal from 6pm – enjoying falafel boxes provided by Sunny’s Olive Tree

Come anytime between 4.30-6.30pm! However you’ve been involved in the festival, we’d love to welcome you. Friends and family-members welcome.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Power of Food Festival will take place in Tower Hamlets between the 18th – 28th September, with events and activities that celebrate food cultures, community and all the incredible work happening towards a fairer, more sustainable food system.

The festival will be delivered with funding from the Just Food and Climate Transition Programme, with groups and organisations coming together across the borough. There will be inspiring, thought-provoking and delicious events, including community meals, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings, walking tours and more.

ACCESS INFORMATION FOR RICH MIX

• Step-free access via a ramp at the main entrance on Bethnal Green Road
• Lifts provide access to all gallery, performance, and cinema spaces 
• Wheelchair bays are available in all three of our cinema screens Accessible toilets are located on the Ground, 1st, 2nd (next to Screen 2), and 4th floors 
• Our Box Office, Stage, and Studio spaces are equipped with hearing loops. Most hearing aids can connect by switching to the ‘T’ position Infrared hearing systems are available in The Studio and in cinema screens. Headsets can be provided on request. 
• A portable FM radio system with neck loops and headsets can be provided on request We accept CEA cards, which allow disabled guests to bring a carer free of charge.