Missed out on tickets for this event?
You can catch Kon Karapanagiotidis in these festival sessions:
22. Feeding Marginalised Communities
30. Comfort Eating – How food can be a salve for mental health
Kon Karapanagiotidis, alongside his mum Sia, has created a beautiful cookbook full of Greek, vegetarian and vegan recipes. Philoxenia, meaning ‘to welcome a stranger’ is the name of the new cookbook and a perfect sentiment with which to begin a discussion.
Come and sit side by side with local community and share lunch at The Old Church on the Hill, made by Kon, Sia and members of the Karen and Afghan communities who call Bendigo home. Lunch will be a shared feast. As diners break bread, City of Greater Bendigo Cr, Dr Jennifer Alden will chat to Kon and Sia about their lives, their loves and memories around the kitchen table. Dessert will be baklava provided by local Hazara Afghan woman Shukria.
$10 from the sale of each ticket will be equally divided and donated to both the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) and The Old Church on the Hill Women in Microbusiness program.
PLEASE NOTE: This lunch event is a set menu shared vegetarian feast, individual and specific dietary requirements cannot be catered for.
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