Women in Exile // Spiced Memories

Women inExile e.V. is a self-organised initiative founded in Brandenburg in 2002 by refugee women to fight for their rights. Organising as a refugee women’s groupin response to discrimination experienced both as refugees and as women, theyhave been campaigning for over 20 years against inhumane living conditions inrefugee camps and for freedom of movement and equal rights for all.

This eventtakes this political context as a starting point and focuses on “spicedmemories” gathered in a newly developed cookbook created in the framework of anexhibition by Women in Exile e.V. in cooperation with the FHXB Friedrichshain-KreuzbergMuseum.

Together,we will reflect on food as a carrier of knowledge and lived experience — and onthe power of sharing culinary knowledge as a practice of care and resistance.How are stories of flight, survival, and collective organising transmittedthrough taste, recipes, and ritual? What forms of memory and solidarity emergethrough cooking and sharing
food? All of this will take place in the spirit of a Küfa (Küche für alle), acollective, donation based meal prepared and shared together.