The 9th Slow Food Festival will take place in Fiskars Village, 1 hr west of Helsinki, on the first weekend in October. Over 80 producers from Uusimaa and Varsinais-Suomi in southern Finland get together for the weekend to sell and market their products and services. There will also be a variety of workshops and tastings with producers and chefs. Part of the program is in English i.e a coffee tasting, a berry tasting with representatives from Slow Food Riga and a lecture by Johan K Dal from Slow Food Copenhagen (see below) .
All producers act according to the principles for Slow Food: all food should be GOOD, CLEAN and FAIR.
GOOD: highquality, delicious and healthy food
CLEAN: production that does not harm the environment
FAIR: accessible prices for consumers and fair conditions and pay for producers
Among the participants will be fishermen, bakers, meat producers, farmers and various food craftsmen. Many restaurants and cafés will as well be offering their delicacies to visitors.
The programmes for the festival will be published on the website within the 2nd week of September.
There is a lot to do for kids.
The Slow Food Festival 2018 will again take place in Fiskars Village: in the old Granary, in the Copper Smithy and at the Workshop Square. Tastings and workshops will be in Lukaali Conference Center nearby; the address there is Fiskarsintie.
The festival is open both Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. Entrance to the festival area is 1 €, and for parking we charge 2 € per car.
The ninth Slow Food festival is organized by Slow Food Västnyland.
Lecture in English
Saturday 6th of October, at 11:00-12:00 in the Assembly Hall in Fiskars.
How can Slow Food provide solutions to the challenges of the Global Food System?
The way we have organized our food system, from production to consumption, is highly effective in providing low cost and high energy solutions for consumers in the Western world. However, this comes at a cost: today, the way we produce and consume food can be linked directly to obesity, diabetes, climate change, pollution, exploitation of workers, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity and a number of other challenges.
- This development has been driven by lobbyism, questionable political decisions and multinational companies, says Johan K. Dal. We need to fix these problems and the system.
Johan K. Dal, who is the chairman of Slow Food Copenhagen, will visit the Slow Food Festival in Fiskars and a give a lecture on the Global Food System and the Slow Food organization. In Dal’s opinion we need to mobilize as people and as individuals in order to address the problem from a holistic perspective.
- This is why Slow Food might be able to provide solutions and guidance in the global South, but also in the Nordic countries, Dal continues.
Johan K. Dal was Project Manager for the first Terra Madre Nordic event that was arranged in April 2018 in Copenhagen. He has a master in Food Studies from the Aalborg University and has also studied at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. By day he works at the Hotel and Restaurant School in Copenhagen.
The lecture will be presented on Saturday 6th of October, at 11:00-12:00 in the Assembly Hall in Fiskars.
Also
Exclusive Coffeetasting in English Sunday Oct 7, 2018
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Slow Food is a global grassroots organization that envisions a world in which all people can access and enjoy food that is good for them, good for those who grow it, and good for the planet. Slow Food involves over a million activists, chefs, experts, youth, farmers, fishers, and academics in over 160 countries.
For more information, please contact:
Mikael Kokkonen
Mobile 045 6122503 / verksamhetsledare@slowfoodvastnyland.org
Chairperson Diana Lindholm
mobile. +358 500 776 156 / diana@backers.fi
PR&press Bitte Westerlund
mobile +358 40 524 7743 / bitte.westerlund@gmail.com
Programmes: Natalia Teikola
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