Join celebrity chef Andi Oliver at Squash Liverpool’s Autumn Equinox Weekender

This Autumn Equinox, when day and night find their perfect balance, award-winning arts and food organisation Squash Liverpool invites you to join a weekend of community, creativity, and connection on and around Windsor Street.

Andi Oliver, celebrity chef, broadcaster, writer, and patron of Squash Liverpool, is returning to the city to celebrate the Autumn Equinox at the L8 community hub.

Alongside Andi, you’re invited to celebrate with artists, gardeners, cooks, and neighbours, as you find your balance during this magical time of year.

Included in the weekend is:

• The fun-packed annual Harvest Auction Fundraiser where home-grown fruit, veg, jams & chutneys of gardeners from across the city is up for grabs to help raise funds for Squash’s ‘Soup-it-Forward’ campaign & Habibti Liverpool who support Al Sabeen Children’s Hospital in Yemen
• ‘Digesting Politics’; on the eve of the Labour Party Conference, come for a free bowl of soup and a chat about the politics of food 
• A ritual walk along from the local spring to the oldest oak in Princess Park
• Seed-saving with Toxteth Seed Library gardeners and mindful crafting with local artists 
• Communal DJ-ing – bring your own vinyl to get us all moving!
• Making immune-boosting tonics for activists
• The Healing Garden; come by the community garden for fire, meditation, music & relaxation

The Equinox Weekender is part of ‘Seeds of Hope’: a series of inspiring community-led events are taking place all across the UK this autumn with support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with community-growing and nature connection at their heart, reflecting the hope and solidarity we know exists in communities everywhere, and inviting all of us to get behind it.

Amid concern about the rise of far-right populism and widespread feelings of fatalism, these celebrations of amazing people and communities growing hope and building belief in better futures are exactly what we need right now.

Andi Oliver said:

“I am so excited to be back in Liverpool 8 for the Autumn Equinox with my Squash family to share great food, great vibes and great company whilst helping to raise essential funds for Squash’s free food offer and Habibti Liverpool, as well as catching up with local women food entrepreneurs.”

The Autumn Equinox Weekender takes place on 21 – 22 September 2024.

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