Hello !

Welcome to the monthly Quinta Update. This month with:

• Quinta Community Call: Selling Out!!
• Gatherings Update
• Cook Along: Spinach and Chickpeas - a Spanish classic!
• Queer Permies Café: Obtain a Yield
• Book Club: The Roseking 
• February at the Quinta - What happened?
• Volunteering: Available Dates

Quinta Community Call

Thursday, 16 March @ 19:30 UTC

Selling Out: The complicated relationship between commercialisation, consumption and (mostly gay) liberation

From maligned minority to celebrated marketing icon: The relationship between the queer community and the wider (neo-liberal) economy is a complicated one. In the Community Call I will look at the history of how the relationship emerged and developed, and how this shaped the (mostly) gay community today. 

With Stephan Dahl, who, before founding the Quinta Project, was an academic researching marketing. Stephan has published widely (and continues to do so), including the books Social Marketing (Pearson), Marketing Ethics & Society (Sage), Marketing Communications (Routledge), Social Media Marketing (Sage) and co-edited The Handbook of Marketing Ethics (Sage). 

Link to join the meeting: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85806832782?pwd=Q0prcUYzQXlYbFh1bHk2ZTB2eldoQT09

Please bear with us if you haven't yet heard back! 

All gatherings are still accepting applications. There is a short waiting list for the Permaculture Week.

Cook Along: Spinach and Chickpeas

Tuesday, 21 March @ 18:30 UTC

The Food Pod invites you to cook along a Spanish classic which is also vegan and very seasonal at the moment: Spinach and Chickpeas. Please get the ingredients before joining the meeting - and then we will cook the meal and eat it together afterwards.

400g chickpeas

500g spinach

50g Bread crumbs 

1/2 onion

2 cloves of garlic

1 teaspoon sweet paprika

1 pinch of cumin

salt and pepper

olive oil

The ingredients are for roughly 3 portions. 

Register and join here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrduqsqTMuGtzVp8VPiBFHZ2Ynfbmt_gwq

Queer Permies Café: Obtain a Yield

Monday, 13 March @ 18:00 UTC

Join us to explore, co-create and learn from each other at our monthly queer* permies get together. This months we will explore the third permaculture principle: Obtain a Yield. How we can bring it to life and what it means to us? How can we apply permaculture principles to both our practice on the land and in life?

Register and join here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElcequpzMrGdVFByeNhAGsQkdGj2gC_e_4

Book Club

Monday, 27 March @ 19:30 UTC

The March Book Club is actually a movie date: We will be discussing The Rosining by Werner Schroeter. A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. More information about the film: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/the-rose-king-2012-09

Register and join here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocOqvrDksHNWLiy3T7Zb3y_l9lNoHM6pi

Volunteering: Available Dates

The next dats for volunteering at the Quinta is: 

30 April - 5 May

N.B. there are building works going on at the main house which may mean some disruption.

For more information and more available dates please see here: https://quintaproject.org/volunteering/