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Princeton YMCA
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Breadmaking for the family!
Friday, February 24, 2012Bread making Event
Where: Group Exercise Room
When: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Fee: Suggested $10 donation per adult to benefit the Bread Houses Network.
Children FREE.
What to bring: Please feel free to bring along your favorite kitchen untensil/object!
Pre-Registration is required!
What is one thing that ALL PEOPLE LOVE?
What is one thing that ALL PEOPLE CAN MAKE?
What is one PLACE THAT CAN BRING ALL PEOPLE TOGETHER?
A TABLE, A FIRED OVEN, and HOT BREAD!
Bread not bought, but made, and made with many others as a collective art!
The Bread Houses Network’s mission to inspire people and communities to discover and develop their creative potential and cooperate across gender, age, ethnic, and religious background through collective bread-making and accompanying art forms and sustainable agriculture.
Princeton University anthropologist Nadezhda Savova, founder and president of the Bread Houses Network, www.breadhousesnetwork.org, invites families with children and any other age group to come together around tables laid with candles, flour and in the ambiance of world music and share Nadezhda's stories and photographs about interesting breads from different cultures.
We will all make bread together from scratch, learning about its different elements as symbols in various cultures and as metaphors for human relationships. While baking the bread, we will travel the world through images Nadezhda will show from her research on bread and other foods and arts across five continents, and we will finally all break hot bread together as the greatest universal symbol of friendship and peace, related to the historic city of Bethlehem, whose name intriguingly means "Bread House." It is after this name that the Bread Houses Network was named with the hope to create hearths of peace through cultural centers around the world, and indeed it already has inspired community educational programs on inter-cultural dialogue and nutrition in 12 countries on 5 continents.
Nadezhda will also present the current initiative to develop a regular Princeton-based Bread House Program through a Mobile Bread House on a retrofitted school bus featuring a traditional wood-fired oven and a green roof!
Please come join us as we make, bake, and break breads of the world together!
