U of G students tell local food stories through new audio project | 24CA News
A novel audio challenge will give listeners an opportunity to study Guelph’s historical past on meals and meals insecurity.
Future Food Visions launches on Saturday on the Guelph Farmers’ Market, as 9 tales will likely be instructed by way of a brand new audio expertise created by theatre college students from the University of Guelph.
The initiative is a collaboration between the college and Our Food Future. Other collaborators embrace CFRU, the Guelph Community Health Centre and the Food System Resiliency Table.
Kimberley McLeod, challenge co-ordinator and affiliate professor within the School of English and Theatre Studies, stated the audio expertise helps you see the tales in a brand new mild.
“It’s immersive but also intimate. It’s because you get to sit with yourself and who you are and what your personal relationship is to the space around you while you listen to audio that tells you about the experience of others,” McLeod stated.
The college students have developed the tales and she or he stated it’s been actually empowering for them to have the ability to write and carry out their very own work.
“They were involved in all stages of the piece. They did all the research as part of this course and then they wrote their own scripts, and we worked with professional playwrights to clean up the scripts and get them to be as strong as they could be,” she stated.
The tales are a approach to spotlight the work put in by native meals organizations, neighborhood teams and cultural communities to assist individuals reply to meals entry and inequality.
McLeod added that the scholars recorded the tales at CFRU.
She stated she is a giant fan of audio experiences being finished specifically locations, and these tales will be heard all around the metropolis, together with downtown and at neighborhood gardens.
McLeod encourages individuals to attempt to take heed to completely different tales.
“There’s one that you can actually experience in your own home, in your own kitchen, that’s quite playful and satirical and it’s playing with a lot of the advice we get about to how cook better,” she stated.
On Saturday, the occasion will likely be supplied as a one-day-only expertise from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The audio may even be obtainable to stream on the challenge’s web site and on the Driftscape app, the place it’s free to obtain.
McLeod stated you may share your ideas afterwards on social media or by way of e mail.
“We invite you at the end of each experience to go to our website. And on the website, there is a question, or a little prompt, and you can respond to that prompt in any way you want,” she stated.
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