Real Bread Campaign announces The Uprising event

Real Bread is on the rise but what does the future hold? Organised by the Real Bread Campaign and SOAS Food Studies Centre, this all-day event (10am-5pm) will be the largest UK Real Bread gathering since 2009.

Real Bread: The Uprising invites domestic, community, therapeutic and professional bakers and all non-baking dough nuts to hear from leading Real Bread bakers; meet and chat with fellow breadheads; and share ideas, information and lunch.

Themes

The main topics being chewed over during the day will be:

• Therapeutic and social baking: Bread making and mental health, baking social enterprise, community and companionship, parallels with other therapeutic manual crafts.
• The business of baking: Starting, running and scaling up a microbakery, Community Supported Bakery or other small, local Real Bread enterprise.
• Seed to sandwich: Ancient and heritage grains, traditional milling, homebaking, Real Bread’s place in different cultures from around the world.
• Sourdough: What is it, how do I start baking it, how do I improve?

Experts

The keynote speaker is Andrew Whitley, author of the books Bread Matters and Do Sourdough; and cofounder of the Real Bread Campaign.  The panel Q&A sessions will be chaired by Kath Dalmeny, coordinator of the food and farming charity Sustain.

Other experts so far confirmed to lead conversation groups include:

Tom Baker (Loaf), Francesca Barker (The Barker Baker), Aidan Chapman (Bread Ahead and River Cottage), Gerry Danby (Artisan Food Law), Maria Deveraux (Growing Health), Jessica Doyle (Homebaked Anfield), Andrew Forbes (The Brockwell Bake Association), Fergus Jackson (Brick House), Jane Mason (Virtuous Bread / Bread Angels), Julia Ponsonby (Schumacher College), Carole Roberts (Love Bread CIC), Max Tobias (Dusty Knuckle Bakery), plus companions from Ruskin Mill Trust, School of Artisan Food and Leeds Bread Coop.

Further details, including ticket information (£9-25) are available here.

For more information about the event or the Real Bread Campaign, including how to join the supporter network, visit: realbreadcampaign.org

For more information about the SOAS Food Studies Centre, visit soas.ac.uk/foodstudies

ENDS

For more information about the Real Bread Campaign, please contact Chris Young:
chris [at] sustainweb.org
realbreadcampaign.org       twitter.com/realbread     facebook.com/realbreadcampaign

NOTES

Real Bread: The Uprising

12 September 2015
10am-5pm,
Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG

A limited number of tickets will be available until 31 May 2015 or they run out, whichever is sooner.

£9    Early bird ticket (SOAS student and staff discount)
£10    Early bird ticket (Real Bread Campaign supporter discount)
£20    Early bird ticket (everyone else)

Thereafter:

£14    SOAS student and staff discount
£15    Real Bread Campaign supporter discount
£25    Everyone else

Cancellations are subject to a £10 fee. Tickets £10 and under or cancelled after 1 September are non-refundable.

The Real Bread Campaign is part of the food and farming charity Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.  Starting from a universally accessible definition of Real Bread as: made without any artificial additives, its mission is to find and share ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet.

The SOAS Food Studies Centre is dedicated to the study of the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of food, historically and in the contemporary moment, from production, to exchange, to preparation, to consumption. The Centre’s primary purposes are to promote research and teaching in the field of food studies and to facilitate links between SOAS and other individuals and institutions with an academic interest in food studies. While the centre draws upon the regional expertise of its many members in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, it also engages in its teaching and research activities with other regions, as well as with issues of global dimension. The Centre is chaired by Professor Harry G. West, Professor of Anthropology. The Deputy Chair is Dr. Jakob Klein, Lecturer in Social Anthropology.