Jacky Puzey

Shade Home 2010

October – December 2010
A project about shared food, culture and community…..dressing for dinner and sharing recipes across cultures.

By Jacky Puzey with Baljinder Bhopal, China Blue Fish, Ruth Jacobs, Liz Lambert, Leiza McLeod, Amanda Owens, Chandra Prasad, Hilary Ramsden, Folake Shoga, Heather Summers

with thanks to Adam Slade at Bath Spa University for screenprinting

Shade is a performance project about shared culture and food. Shade uses dress, decorated dinner tables, performance and food to create social events of arts, dinner and entertainment in specific sites. This year, having successfully gained funding, we are extending our series of feasts and events. Shade Home 2010 will start at St Nicholas Markets at the beginning of October, to create a magical evening dinner event in the Glass Arcade, with a tour of other sites in the Markets.We will then progress to four homes across Bristol, working with our Hosts to create a new space of shared food and culture in their neighbourhood.

Shade starts from the idea of dressing to pass, dressing for dinner, the business suit as a global passport to new networks of influence and trade. Shade events are hosted by performers wearing suits already embroidered with their allegiances and their visas. Guests are invited through public call out to dine with us, to be part of a new space of shared food and culture, to contribute recipes if they wish, to be entertained, and to join a conversation about food, dress and shared cultures.

‘it was amazing seeing it all unfold in my house…’ Jan Winter, Host for Shade Home 2009

‘it sounds like an intercultural Come Dine with Me…I’d love a zoot suit’   Maff, BCFm Radio, interview June 2 2010 1.15pm
‘We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, with such wonderful performance, stories, food, conversation and company.’  Paul H, guest at Shade Home 2009

If you would like to find out more, please contact Jacky Puzey through this website, or visit us on our Market stall on June 6 and June 9, where Shade artists are having a stall to promote the series of dinners and meet potential guests and hosts. You will be able to see images from the first Shade Home trial event, a couple of the Shade suits, have an optional cup of chai! and talk to us more about being a guest or host for a Shade Home dinner event in October or November. You can also download the handouts below for more information.

stall times: Sunday June 6 at the Slow Food Market, Corn St, outside St Nicholas Markets: 10am-3pm

Wednesday 9 June at the Farmers Market, Corn St, outside St Nicholas Markets: 930-230pm

Download Shade Home News Release

Download Shade Host and Guest Handout

Shade Home 2010 has been supported by St Nicholas Markets and Circomedia, and funded by