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Cocina Colaboratorio: Mesa Migrante (Los Angeles)

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DATE: September 26, 2026 TIME: 11 AM – 2 PM

LOCATION: Feminist Center for Creative Work

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Cocina Colaboratorio: Mesa Migrante (Mexico City), February 6, 2026. Presented by Active Cultures and LagoAlgo. Photos by Rubén Garay.

Mesa Migrante is a participatory space by Cocina Colaboratorio that understands the table and cooking as practices of situating oneself in the world.

In a global context marked by forced migration, hardened borders, the expansion of monoculture, and slow disasters that quietly transform bodies, landscapes, and food systems, the project activates a migratory table as a mobile, participatory kitchen moving between Santo Domingo Tomaltepec (Oaxaca), Mexico City, and Los Angeles.

Through the intertwined gestures of naming, cooking, and remediating, workshop participants are invited to share food, memories, and absences: invoking ingredients that are no longer available; living yet undocumented (“un-inherited”) recipes; transformed territories; and the forms of resistance that emerge alongside these shifts.

Recipes and reflections generated during the exchange—culinary, symbolic, and affective—are documented, giving rise to a collective, migratory cookbook that evolves with each activation across cities and borders.

Mesa Migrante is a commission of Active Cultures, first presented with LagoAlgo in Mexico City in February 2026. In September 2026, its Los Angeles chapter will be presented as part of FOOD: A Convening, a two-day conference examining food as medium, system, archive, and territory.

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About the Artist

Cocina Colaboratorio
Cocina Colaboratorio is an ongoing mobile and on-site collective that brings farmers, scientists, creatives and cooks together around the kitchen table to connect, exchange knowledge and prototype new trans-disciplinary solutions to farming; a test ground for ideas that conciliate land restoration, conservation, food production and better livelihood in farming communities....
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About the Feminist Center for Creative Work

Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles nurtures feminist and queer creative practices through ever-evolving collaborations, modeling, and resourcing the conditions for liberatory futures to take root and grow.

Credits

FOOD: A Convening is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, with the generous support of Sarah and Joel McHale, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, Betsy Greenberg and Steve NyBlom, and Joaquín Vargas M. In-kind support is provided by the Kimpton Everly Hotel, RG|MX, and William Grant & Sons.

Active Cultures is sustained through the generous support of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the Vera R. Campbell Foundation; the Getty Foundation; Evans Hankey and Brooke Lane; the Jerry and Terri Kohl Family Foundation; the Maurice Marciano Family Foundation; the Offield Family Foundation; Teiger Foundation; James Cohan Gallery; C O U S I N S; Who Wants To Be A Millionaire/ABC; Active Cultures’ Board of Directors; the Members Circle Annual Fund; Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA); and the Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA) Coalition.