Shared Plates a Working Title

On the 21st October we launched a vote the name for our festival. In our group of over 50 community members in The Carousel we provided three options.

Plates & Places, Food and Art Festival (24 votes)
Mix Fest, Food and Art Festival (0 votes)
Global Kitchen, Food and Art Festival (20 votes)

After we saw an obvious winner we realised we had a project that we had started but never developed.
We had the idea of bringing it back to life.

Shared Plates
This was a pop up kitchen that siblings Benjamin (Festival Director) and Zena Kay (Artist in Residence) began in 2020.
They only actually ended up cooking a big bucket of dhal, paneer and Aloo Gobi for a party in a field in Dorset for Ben’s 30th!

After developing this idea we put the name out to the community at The Carousel and this was the feedback:

Warm, human, and describes a positive activity.
Community, generosity, and conversation.

Inclusive & Inviting “Shared” conveys openness, togetherness, and participation. This is core to our mission of bringing communities together.

Food-Driven but Flexible “Plates” is culinary but also metaphorical. A plate as a canvas, as something both made and served. Plates as a colloquial term for Vinyl Records.

Perfect for Food and Art Works literally for meals and symbolically for creativity. People sharing ideas, cultures, and art.

Short & Memorable Two words, easy to say, warm tone, adaptable for social and visual branding.