Gatherings
The Institute's work happens at tables, in fields, and in rooms where food is taken seriously as culture. Some gatherings are public. Most are small. All of them feed the archive.
UPCOMING
Food and the Archive · DIKAN Center x The Midunu Institute · Accra · [date]. A public conversation between Selassie Atadika and Paul Ninson on what it means to keep a people's knowledge: in photographs and in kitchens. [Registration or RSVP line as agreed with DIKAN]
THE TABLE
The Midunu Table gathers weekly in Accra from 2027: a rotating seasonal menu shaped by the Auntie in residence, cooked by the fellows, open by reservation. Seats are limited by design. Gatherings are announced first to the newsletter.
THE FORMATS
The Living Archive Dinner. In each city the Institute visits, one woman who carries culinary knowledge from home cooks alongside Selassie for a table of guests. She is named, honored, and recorded. The dinner is the archive being made.
The Mother's Table. A gathering where women of the diaspora each bring one dish and the story it carries. No stage. The knowledge in the room is the event.
The Gathering. From 2028, an annual convening in Accra on African culinary inheritance: keepers, cooks, scholars, and patrons at one table.
PAST
(Grows over time: one line and one photograph per entry.