Public Jam
Noon–5 pm • YAAW Lounge
FREE (Tickets required. Call YBCA Box Office at 415.978.2787)
Join Fallen Fruit in a collaborative event in which citizens come together for a communal jam making session. Bring along your home-grown or public fruit and any clean, empty glass jars you have. When the jam is done, the public is invited to take the jam home, leave for others or trade with other participants. There will be discussions about the basics of jam and jelly making, pectin and bindings, the aesthetics of sweetness, as well as the communal power of shared food and the liberation of public fruit.
As a performance event, this piece is about collaboration on multiple levels: Fallen Fruit's collaboration with the public, the participant's collaboration with each other and the long-term collaboration between humans and nature which have produced the type and variety of fruits we now enjoy. Participants are asked to join jam teams of 3 to 5 people and to work with people they have not met before. The team decides together how to make the jam with what kind of fruit and in what proportion. Teams are encouraged not to follow recipes but to improvise and collaborate in their effort. The system of exchange and transformation is the symbolic heart of much of Fallen Fruit's work.
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