Sandor Ellix Katz (he/him/they) is a fermentation revivalist. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, he is the author of five books. Sandor's book The Art of Fermentation, which received a James Beard award and has been widely translated, was selected by the New York Times as one of "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years." Sandor's books, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts.

gal sherizly (they/them) aka fungal 9669 is a trans/disciplinary artist, writer and FEELed researcher. They bridge differences through deep listening and amplifying similarities. gal collages sensorial storytelling and weaves edible, audible, visual, written and spoken into rituals, performances, collective gatherings, installations and workshops. Similarly to music, food is another gateway for those that long to belong. gal writes recipes for preserving ancestral and more-than-human knowledge(s)—translating them into digestible, accessible and embodied manuals. They use wor(l)ds as ingredients for cooking a planetary change: healing bodies and cistems and trans/forming dietary lexicons and expanding linguistic, musical and cultural terrains.

Soñ Gweha (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist pursuing a PhD in Practice between Paris, Cameroon's Littoral region, and Vienna. Rooted in Cameroonian and Afro-diasporic heritage, Afrofeminist struggles, sci-fi and a wide tradition of black music, their work explores intimacy, love, joy, and vitality from a Black, Queer, and Afrofuturist perspective through utopian, erotic, and spiritual imaginaries through music, DJing under the name SOÑXSEED, poetry, performance, fruit and plant matter, and other mixed media. Soñ Gweha crafts immersive spaces that exist between worlds, reconfiguring past-present-future temporalities. Their creations invite reflection on collective and individual liberation, offering spaces where grief, comfort, and celebration intertwine in a continuous dance.

Stephen Vider (he/him) is Associate Professor of History and co-director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and curator of the exhibition “AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism” (Museum of the City of New York, 2017). His popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, Avidly, Time, and Slate, among other places.

Isaias Hernandez is an environmentalist, educator, and writer devoted to improving environmental literacy through content creation, storytelling, and public engagements. Isaias is more commonly known by his moniker, Queer Brown Vegan: the independent media platform he started to bring intersectional environmental education to all. His journey to deconstruct complex issues, while centering diversity and authenticity, has resonated with a worldwide audience.

He has produced and written his own climate-independent web series, Teaching Climate Together, which exists to bring environmental education to everyone by working with scientists, researchers, and community leaders. He is currently working on his first-ever debut book, Dear Environmentalist: Why Ecological Wealth Is Our Only Way Forward, set to be published in April 2027 with Hachette Book Group under the Timber Press imprint.

Isaias has been featured in several noteworthy publications, including the digital cover of VOGUE alongside Billie Eilish and seven other environmental activists, New York Times, The Guardian, and Business Insider. Isaias serves on the advisory board for Yale Climate Connections. As a public speaker, he’s presented for the New York Times, UC Berkeley, Yale, Harvard University, and more.

Every Mouth Needs Filling is a queer-led collaborative curatorial practice formed by Caitlin Fleming and Elisha Fall in 2023. Their work centres on commensurality as a method. They utilize shared meals, screenings, exhibitions, and conversations to activate queer histories and lived experiences. They formed in response to the loss of queer venues. Their work creates care-led spaces for gathering, making, and collective nourishment. They are rooted in South East London and committed to decentralised, intergenerational practice. The name from Hilton Als’ White Girls reflects their practice as married collaborators: “Every mouth needs filling with something wet or dry, or unfamiliar and savory, like love.” They aim to consider the tongue through research and commensality and explore intimacy through its varying facets.

Jacob Michael (he/him) is a curator and cook, interested in how cycles of transformation, destruction, growth, decay, and reuse can model alternative ways of living together amid ecological and cultural ruin. Drawing on methods of fermentation, foraging, preservation, and communal meals, his work treats acts of consumption as both sculptural and social forms. Through dinners, installations, and process-driven collaborations, his work positions the table as a site of trust, exchange, and speculative possibility.

Every Mouth Needs Filling is a queer-led collaborative curatorial practice formed by Caitlin Fleming and Elisha Fall in 2023. Their work centres on commensurality as a method. They utilize shared meals, screenings, exhibitions, and conversations to activate queer histories and lived experiences. They formed in response to the loss of queer venues. Their work creates care-led spaces for gathering, making, and collective nourishment. They are rooted in South East London and committed to decentralised, intergenerational practice. The name from Hilton Als’ White Girls reflects their practice as married collaborators: “Every mouth needs filling with something wet or dry, or unfamiliar and savory, like love.” They aim to consider the tongue through research and commensality and explore intimacy through its varying facets.

Safiya Robinson (also known as SisterWomanSaf) is a chef, interdisciplinary facilitator and culinary artist exploring food as a site of memory, culture, wellness, and care. Through workshops, participatory meals, research, and writing, she designs embodied experiences grounded in her philosophy of Intentional Nourishment: the practice of using food and shared ritual to cultivate dignity, pleasure, and meaningful connection. Inspired by her Black American, Jamaican, and British heritage, her culinary focus centres deeply considered vegan soul food through a distinctly London lens. She also hosts and produces The Intentional Nourishment Podcast, which expands this work through dialogue with other chefs, artists and thinkers.

Shannon Higgins (she/her) is a creative, working where food and art come together, focusing on seasonal produce and how it changes throughout the year. She like experimenting with recipes that are fun and a little different, hoping to help people notice and enjoy the simple, natural flavors each season has to offer.

Ghost (he/him) and John (he/him) are two artist-researchers across performances, writings and visual arts, and a married couple. They make embodied works about queer migrant experiences, dreaming of futures with lush gardens, fluidity across membranes and liberations after the fall. In their past productions, they present fragmented memories of traumatic experiences related to displacement, relationships, social movement, and technological interaction. Their experimental theatre work “Two Plant Gaysians” is currently available for booking. They are two of the six co-founders of Hidden Keileon CIC.

Marf Summers (they/them) is an artist, architect and leatherworker whose work explores themes of trans dyke identity, domesticity and class. They work in mediums ranging from sandpaper to hard candy, creating object work that turns a subversive and eroticising eye on the everyday. Their work often employs butch camp sensibilities to open up playful dialogues with the often fraught terrain of the home. Marf’s work has been exhibited internationally and they are currently part of the Conditions Studio programme in Croydon, London.

rishita Maheshwari-Aplin (they/them) is a queer theorist, campaigner and grassroots organiser exploring the transhistorical cultures and political realities of the queer community. Their essay/manifesto, Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure (2025) reframes queer hedonism from a transient individualistic phenomenon to a collective and futuristic transformational energy. Previously Politics Editor at BRICKS Magazine, Prishita now campaigns with Greenpeace UK and sits on the Advisory Board of Split Banana. Their advocacy in pursuit of queer liberated futures, a Free Palestine and a dismantling of all oppressive structures is informed by their trans, migrant and multicultural identity.

For about a decade, Sophie Seita (she/they) has worked with language as a sensuous, sculptural, and sonic material, translated and moulded into live performances, performative objects, publications, sound pieces, drawings, and textiles. She teaches in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and recently held the Werner Düttmann Fellowship at Akademie der Künste (Berlin), and a research residency at Studio Voltaire. Often working collaboratively, she’s currently developing an artistic research project on ecoliteracy with Youngsook Choi, and a performance ritual for and with queer ancestors and water alongside Victoria Perrie, Jehan Roberson, Naomi Woo; and is nurturing the ongoing flourishing of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions.

Chris is a cook of Tamil Sri Lankan descent, with a love of connecting and forging community through food, performance and old skool Asian sass! He founded MOTHER Canteen in 2019; an extension of his own kitchen table, serving dishes that celebrate mainly food from Asian and African diaspora communties and celebrating as many festvities as best they can, with the aim to uplift minority communites, educate others and celebrate London's vast diversity.

Tej’s practice reflects on/through/and, hopefully, beyond his time practicing methods that were once unquestionably foregrounded by regarding his embodiment as easily disentangled from the expansive milieu of others, alive, dead and resisting this binaries. He feels his present endeavours mark a turn from this, toward a yearning for 'a place where the soul can rest', as spoken of by bell hooks (2009). He aspires to this through being in both an allotment and the gardens at OmVed Gardens: in these places, he grows food, walks; crafts structures, writes, and attempts to share all of this with others, in the hope the sharing brings to 'them' what it has for 'him'.
For now, he’d like to share that in the last few years, he took to tending to young fruit trees, bought 'bare-root' from supermarkets, and then, donning a hi-vis to appear ‘official’, has been planting these out on the housing estate where he lives. Seeing others notice and start tending for the trees, without prompt or signage indicating their presence, has nourished his story telling endeavours.

QUEERCIRCLE is a LGBTQ+ led charity working at the intersection of arts, health and social action. QUEERCIRCLE was founded to fill the gaps and advocate for systemic change where other arts, health and education institutions fail or actively perpetuate harm. This work requires us to be vigilant of, and challenge systems of oppression.

Based in the heart of London, Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.

House of Annetta is a space for learning about the ways in which ownership of land shapes our lives and the world around us. 25 Princelet Street was the home of beekeeper, artist, activist and publisher Annetta Pedretti from 1980-2018. We are committed to continuing her work at the house through building repair, self-organised education, and cybernetic projects.

OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London exploring food, ecology, and creativity for climate resilience. Through regenerative gardening, seed saving, and food advocacy, we support communities, enhance biodiversity, and promote ecological education through creative practice.

MOTHER is a vibrant community cafe serving up flavours from around the world alongside cake, coffee and good vibes to the Gospel Oak community and beyond.

A hidden gem, nestled next to The London School of Mosaics, our mission is to bring people together with food whilst celebrating different cuisines and cultures from across the globe.

Our menu changes daily, focusing on international home cooking with flavours ranging from East and South Asian to African and European. Everything is made fresh on the day and we take pride in the fact our food echos the diverse and multicultural environment that makes Gospel Oak and London what it is.

When we set up Mother in 2019, we wanted to create a space that acted as an extension to our kitchen table, creating a cosy environment to bring the local community together with food, arts events and community outreach projects.