13 March 2021
Food is Culture Festival’s Second Event, The colors of clothing in a sublime harmony dance with bread delicious recipes At the Al Jasra Handicrafts Center
In its second event, the Food is Culture festival presented, on 13 March 2021, an evening bridging the worlds of food and the arts together in one space at the Al Jasra Handicrafts Centre. The creative encounter featured baker Layal Dana and collage artist and fashion designer Amal Rafie, who both worked on a multi-dimensional creative experience, held in the presence of Ms. Farah Matar, Director of Culture and Arts Department at the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, and a limited number of pioneers of the cultural movement in Bahrain.
The show recalled a timeless three different phases representing the past, the present and the future, whereby artist Amal Rafie displayed, in each phase, her collages and original clothing designs. As for the Dana Layal, she presented a showcase of bread reflecting the Dilmun seals for the past, loaves of bread depicting issues of the modern man, and finally a representation of the future with an overflowing box of bread with grotesque facial expressions.
Dana Layal is a professional who uses her sourdough starter as source of inspiration to build a connection with where our food is coming from and to develop a more sustainable and local way of food consumption. Amal Rafie strives to unleash her inner spirit, and love of freedom while still using elements of Bahraini creative heritage and ancestry through her work. Some of her notable techniques include patchwork using heavily printed fabrics, a technique that is also translated into her digital collage work with the mix of different elements that all tie down cohesively.
Worth to mention that Food is Culture festival will carry on its multiple amazing events until next April, in conformity with the precautionary and preventive measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) approved by the Bahrain Ministry of Health, which means that all the aforementioned events require pre-registration. To attend any of the aforementioned events, please visit www.cultue.gov.bh for information on registration.
For more information on the festival and its activities, please visit the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities’ website www.culture.gov.bh or follow the Culture Authority’s accounts on the social media @culturebah
