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Dutch Pot in Diaspora
Dutch Pot in Diaspora is a multidisciplinary art series that explores how food carries memory, identity, and cultural inheritance across generations and geographies. Rooted in Afro-Carribean diasporic experiences, the “dutch pot” becomes both a literal vessel and a symbolic container for stories of migration, survival, and care. Through collage, ceramics, poetry, and community-based workshops, this series traces recipes of remembering ancestral lineage and migration, rituals in the kitchen, and broader systems of access, displacement, and resilience. By blending research, lived experience, and collective storytelling, Dutch Pot in Diaspora honours the ways culture is preserved, reimagined, and passed on by offering food as a site of connection, healing, and future-building.
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Dutch Pot in Diaspora:An Anthology of Food Sovereignty, Cultural Memory & Black Creativity is an anthology of visual art and poetry that explores the rich connections between cultural heritage and Black food sovereignty. From passed-down recipes and kitchen rituals to the politics of what’s grown, preserved, and shared—this book invites readers to reflect on how food nourishes not just our bodies, but our identities, relationships, and dreams. Think Chicken Soup for the Soul, but with soul food references, a creative twist, and a dash of seasoning from the Caribbean diaspora. This published anthology was the culminating project of a Pot of Poetry workshop and Layering & Liming collage workshop for Scarborough-based youth to receive guidance on artistic expression and submitting to the open call. 14 Black youth were featured. At its core, this project is a love letter to Scarborough and was made possible through the support of Guild Festival Theatre’s Youth Engagement Scarborough Initiative.