A Reflection on Nourishment, Ritual & Letting Go
14 August 2025 | 17:00–19:00 @ Krater, Ljubljana
What does it mean to eat – and feed others – in the final season of life? How do flavors, rituals, and shared meals help us prepare for farewells? And how can food help us embrace the connection between nourishment and the cycles of life and death?
Reading & Reflection
An intimate reading session on food, mortality, and memory. Stories will weave together cultural traditions, personal recollections, and the role of taste in shaping our final chapters.
Tea & Cocktail Time
Savor a tea service alongside crafted cocktails — a meeting of shared reflection and lively toasts.
Open Invitation
Bring a story, poem, or recipe from your family table. It may be something that connects to farewells, inheritances, or the foods you hope will outlive you. We will try to share them, sip together, and consider how food carries us — even beyond the last meal.
The workshop is part of this years PIFresidency: Flavours of Transformations
Mentor
Fransisca Tan is an Austrian food experience designer, blending her expertise in cognitive sciences, communication, gastronomy, and IT. With a deep-rooted passion for exploring and creating transformative human experiences, Fransisca uses the multisensory power of food as her canvas. As an artist, creative producer, and international project manager, she aspires to bring together people from all walks of life and to highlight the value of community, collaboration, and compassion. She creates somatic experiences such as ice cream interventions, sensory grounding, and food meditations. Her second nature as a facilitator is reflected in her strong belief in a community arts approach and in creating opportunities to find inspiration through engaging with art using all our senses.
Fransisca TanHow to apply
You don’t need any prior knowledge to participate, just a desire to actively participate, learn and share! Participation in the workshop is free of charge, please register at delavnice@projekt-atol.si. The workshop will be held in English.
Production
Production: Projekt Atol Institute in collaboration with Trajna/ Krater.
Financial support: The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture.
PIFresidencies are part of Rewilding Cultures project and co-funded by the European Union.
