Recipes For Connection

Nourishing neighbourhood knowledge through story, food, and care (Activating September 2026)

Want to be part of Recipes for Connection?

Recipes for Connection is a free community event where neighbours are invited to share recipes, stories, traditions, and small acts of care with one another.

We’re looking for neighbours and local partners to help bring the activation to life in September 2026: whether that’s sharing a recipe or story, doing a recipe demonstration, connecting us with neighbours, partnering as a community/cultural/food organization, offering in-kind support, or helping the recipe cards find their way back into the neighbourhood.

At a time when many people are feeling isolated, burnt out, or disconnected, Recipes for Connection is about slowing down, meeting neighbours, and creating space for the kinds of human knowledge and care that technology cannot replace. With inspiration from mycelium networks, the underground fungal systems that help forests share nutrients and stay connected, the project explores how people also support each other through stories, knowledge, food, rituals, and care.

Participants’ recipe cards will become part of a growing public wall installation that visitors can browse throughout the day. Large inflatable mushroom sculptures created by Vancouver Design Nerds will help create a playful and welcoming gathering space. The event will also include a few simple recipe demonstrations and tastings shared by neighbours and/or local food businesses, with printed recipe cards available for people to take home.

After the events, selected recipes and stories will be compiled and turned into small printed zines and neighbourhood takeaways to share through little libraries and community spaces.

We’d love to hear from YOU!

Day-Of Activations

Public Recipe Wall

A growing public display of neighbourhood-generated recipes and stories.

Recipe Card Making Tables

Station where anyone can pause and create their own recipe card through storytelling, collage, drawing, and writing.

Recipes can go beyone food, into different themes such as recipes for times of celebration, heartbreak, loneliness, connection, heritage, rest, comfort etc.

Live Recipe Demonstrations

Simple recipe demonstrations shared by neighbours or local food businesses, with take-home recipe cards and allergen information available. Exact format TBD

*Speaker series, there is also room for public sharing and storytelling without the demonstration component.

Turning Recipes for Connection into Neighbourhood Takeaways

After the activations, recipes will be compiled into small printed zines and shared through the neighborhood little libraries and community spaces.

We hope to create simple “Take one in case of…” recipe boxes featuring Recipes for comfort, celebration, or care”.

Think you might like to be involved? We’d love to hear from YOU!

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