9 October 2025, 18:00 - 21:00
Open Kitchen: Pin-only Hostility
VOKU table talks session
organized by Berend Bombarius from the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
We together cook a delicious and accessible plant-based meal; organize program and hold a space for the extended network of community kitchens, food activists, friends, comrades, creatives and Basecamp inhabitants to gather, share, learn, un-learn and enjoy a meal together. Each week tastes like a different #Kitchen Takeover# This week our friend and fellow b.a.k. core team member Berend Bombarius facilitates a conversation around cashless/cashfull hospitality.
During this evening we dive into the effects of pin-only policies within hospitality practices. How does it function as hostility? More and more (hip) places in the hospitality sector do not accept CASH anymore. They claim that pin-only is safer and more 'easy'. But for who? Who is benefitting and who cannot pay anymore? Who is surveilled, and can afford to be surveilled?
As a community kitchen, we are also navigating hospitality. We want to work on tactics to help us challenge the current trend of becoming more pin-only.
Participants will be encouraged to use their imaginaries to produce counter practices or create visuals that expose the injustices that go along with pin-only policies
#nowaste #vegan #unlearninghospitality #cookingupcommunity #financialinfrastructureassolidarity
*Open To Public- Donation Based*
[id: a blurry image of a hand holding a pay machine reader and another hand holding a pin card against the reader. On the background coins and bills. the color palette is green and bordeaux]
