Join us for the public program of The Price of Bloom!
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15 August, 17:00-21:00
BLOOD BERRIES: JUSTICE FOR THAI WORKERS IN THE FINNISH BERRY INDUSTRY
The activists of Verimarja present the latest developments of the human rights case opened by workers travelling from Thailand to pick berries for the Finnish industry. We gather a list of products to boycott and screen-print stickers to mark them in our local stores.
17:00 Exhibition opening
18:00 Presentation by @verimarja.fi
19:00 Screenprint stickers workshop with @groovink

19 August, 16:30-19:30
CULTIVATING IN THE CITY: KOMBUCHA FLAVORUING AND TABLE-TOP DISCUSSION
How can we change our relation to food production and consumption as city dwellers? We think through these questions with Dodo ry, an environmental NGO based in Pasila; researcher and artworker Joss Allen; and Juha Solantie who is growing and teaching about specialty fruit from his backyard in Pirkkola.
16:30 Welcome
17:00 Kombucha flavouring workshop with @dodo_org
18:00 Table-top discussion with @gardening_otherwise, Malm Nordlund (Dodo ry), and Juha Solantie (Paratiisin Hedelmät)

24 August, 17:00-20:00
ALTERNATIVES TO THE GLOBAL FOOD MARKET: COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
Ruby van der Wekken is a producing member of Oma Maa food cooperative. Community supported agriculture schemes foreground the need to help farms and farmers practising sustainable agriculture. They are tools of hope! An invitation to explore the potential for social and ecological systemic change through our engagement with agriculture and food, and building solidarity economies.

17:00 Presentation by Ruby van der Wekken @luomuosuuskunta_omamaa@ripess_inter
18:00 Cake by @edible___landscapes and kombucha tasting by Dodo ry

The Price of Bloom by @myriamgrass, 15.-24.8.2025, is part of SLOW — Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds — a series of exhibitionary workspaces for alternative connections between bodies, places, and economies. Curated by @micolcuratolo with @museumofimpossibleforms. Supported by @koneensaatio. Visual identity by @pauliinanykanen.