In the summer of 2023, Michelin starred chef Seppe Nobels, Nico Dockx and our dear friend Charuwan Pauwels decided to put our energies together to create InstroomArt: a social, culinary and artistic project initiated with the aim of training newcomers and refugees from different parts of the world for a career in hospitality, and hereby promoting diversity, sustainability, and inclusion. These trainees bring their culinary traditions and techniques as well as their memories resulting in unique dishes and related stories that are an ode to their origins. This (nomadic) project is not just a restaurant, but also an academy in which we bring an immersive experience in an artistic and culinary context, with a great social heart where art, food and education work together towards a sustainable future. Migration is a creative situation. We have to cook it up fresh each time! To let ourselves be touched. It is felt. Migration is normal. Migration is necessary. During the forthcoming Antwerp Art Weekend 2025, InstroomArt is “a guest” at PLUS-ONE Projects where we facilitate integration through a welcoming space of dialogue, and culinary and artistic experiences. We will give our chef Sandip Patel (political refugee from Gujarat, India) the floor to serve his ‘Royal Panipuri’ (an Indian street food) recipe to the visitors. He asked us to create together with him a ‘welcoming’ space at PLUS-ONE Projects during that long weekend at the end of May.

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