Sudanese Culinary Arts and Literature

Part of Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, this event at The Black-E explores the meaning of home through food, art and storytelling, in collaboration with London-based publisher Almas Art Foundation.

Centred on the work of British-Sudanese food archivist Omer Al Tijani, the event brings together recipes, oral histories, and cultural narratives that preserve Sudan’s heritage.The Sudanese Kitchen began as a long-term documentation project and website led by Omer Al Tijani, and developed into a landmark cookbook and cultural archive that collects over 100 recipes, contextual essays, and personal and field photographs to present Sudan’s culinary diversity.Doors – 1pm / Food from 1pm / Talk from 2pmAge suitability – 14+ For guardians of any under 18s, please be aware of the content warning below.Content warning – the discussion may bring up references to war, genocide, displacement, death, destruction of property, starvation, and sexual assault, as well as starvation and SA as weapons of war.

These will only be mentioned if asked about.