There will be free pancakes, African drumming and a pancake flipping race during our Pancake Day event on Saturday 25th February 2012.

We will set up a marquee and give away pancakes then oversee competitors as they race around the bandstand (adult race 3pm, children’s race 3.15pm).

And Henri Gaobi will give two performances of African drumming with an acrobat and dancers from 2pm to 2.30pm, and 3.30pm to 4pm. He will also carry out a workshop so people can learn drumming.

The music is funded by the Big Lottery’s Awards for All scheme and the pancake making session will be funded by the Big Lottery’s Local Food Fund.

We would love to hear from volunteers who can help us set up and put away, and also people who can help us cook the pancakes (we’ll supply all the equipment and batter). Contact me at this address if you can help.

Brixton People's Kitchen

After last month's success Brixton People's Kitchen is coming back to Myatt's Fields Park to serve food to local people.
Food will be served up on a donations basis. If you have donated food, feel free to eat for free!

If you'd like to donate food on the day or help cooking, contact Fan 07810288879 or email brixtonfoodwaste@gmail.com and join us from 10AM.
Even if you don't like cooking, come early, we'll be playing games (Scrabble, Articulate, Jenga! but feel free to bring your own) from 12pm. Bring your friends and family! The more the merrier!

Myatt’s will play host to a Christmas feast from 1pm to 4pm on Sunday 18th December organised by Brixton People’s Kitchen. Everyone is welcome, and if you donate food the feast is free.

The organisers say:

“Sharing food with strangers is one of the nicest ways to spread happiness. And if the food is free, and has been saved from going to waste, it makes it even tastier!

Inspired and supported by the People’s Kitchen (Passing Clouds, Dalston, thepeopleskitchen.org), Brixton People’s Kitchen collects food surplus from local shops and markets, invites local people to cook together, and welcomes everyone to enjoy a delicious meal with each other.

We are starting out this month, so come down to Myatt’s, sample some tasty food, and add your ideas to the joyful stew we are cooking.

WAYS YOU CAN HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN:

1 Donate food: any surplus food from local houses, gardens, parks and businesses will be welcome. Any fruits, vegetables, salads and herbs, canned and dried foods, pulses and grains that you might have available will be welcome.

2 Cook: if you can chop, pick, stir, peel and wash, grate, serve or smile, you’re in!

3. Eat: join the communal table and make new friends. Food will be served up on a donations basis. Put what you can or will into the pot. If you have donated food, fee free to eat for free!

If you want to donate food or volunteer, get in touch: ring or text: 07810 2088879, email brixtonfoodwaste@gmail.com

  Following on from the Review and Photos of our first Sleepover in the Park we can now make available this video too.

Our first sleepover will be held in the park this weekend (24th and 25th September).

 

This will include two camp fires, unamplified music from 7pm to 9pm and a breakfast for the campers in the morning.

 

THE PARK WILL BE CLOSED TO EVERYONE BUT THE CAMPERS FROM 6PM ON SATURDAY TO 10AM ON SUNDAY MORNING

We’ll be offering a free vegetarian feast and free French African music on the bandstand during our celebration of this year’s harvest on 18th September 2011.

 

MUSIC

 

RUMBA DE LONDRES will perform popular Congolese Soukous dance rhythms and songs in Lingala and French (1-3pm) and at 3.30pm ORGANIC, a local band who started life in the Funky Monkey, Camberwell, will showcase their talents.

 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 

Everyone will be invited to sit down to a free vegetarian feast from 1pm which will include food grown by volunteers on local estates and in our greenhouse. The feast will be prepared by local cooks.

 

London Orchard Project will bring a large juicer and people will be able to take away (or drink) fresh juice made from locally-foraged fruit.

 

We’ll also have a jam making session - bBring along some fruit and a jar and take home jam at the end of the day. Children will be able to design a label for your jar.

 

Invisible Food will join us after a morning forage for wild food and will make elderberry chutney during the afternoon. Their walk starts at the Loughborough Centre, SW9 7PD at 10.30am.

 

We will have a bee keeping demonstration with honey from Myatt’s hives.

 

The music for the day has been funded by the National Lottery’s Awards for All programme, and the cooking activities are funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food fund. The day is organised by Myatt’s Fields Park Project in partnership with London Borough of Lambeth.

 

HOW CAN YOU HELP

 

·                    Volunteer during the day, helping to put up and take down marquees, working on a stall, general stewarding. Do as much or as little as you like (agreed in advance)

·                    Help in the café or on the cake stall

·                    Help our cooks in the morning as they prepare food for the feast from 11am

·                    Bake for our cake stall

·                    Bring along fruit gathered locally in your garden or anywhere around the park for making jam or juicing. Bring a jam jar and take home jam we’ve made during the afternoon.

 

Please contact me if you can help with any of the above.

We’ll be offering a free vegetarian feast and French African music on the bandstand during our celebration of this year’s harvest on 18th September 2011.

 

The feast will include food grown by volunteers on Patmos Area estate, Cowley estate, Calais Gate, Stannard Hall and Myatt’s Fields Park and cooked by local chefs.

 

We’ll launch the Incredible Edible Lambeth labelling scheme, so products grown and produced in Lambeth can be easily identified.

 

The music for the day has been funded by the National Lottery’s Awards for All programme, and the cooking activities are funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food fund.