Keeping in line with a five year long tradition of celebrating DC’s immigrant communities and language diversity through the arts every Language Access month, Many Languages One Voice (MLOV) has designed a 2015 annual fundraiser, “A Taste of Immigrant DC,” with a focus on their and your favorite — FOOD! That’s right, the culinary arts of the District’s immigrant communities will be on display and offer on April 24, 2015 starting at 6:30 pm at the Festival Center!
When: Friday, April 24, 2015
6:30 pm: Welcome Reception
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm: One-Hour South Asian cooking class by Pansaari**
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm: Food Fair Open
9:00 pm to 9:30 pm: Closing Reception
Where: The Festival Center
1640 Columbia Rd NW
Washington, DC 20009
To register, please visit here.
The event includes live food preparation demonstrations by chefs and a food fair, as well as the option to join a small group of special donors for a one-hour South Asian cooking class hosted by a rising star in DC’s culinary arts world, Pansaari!
All ticket sales are 100% tax-deductible as the proceeds will serve to meet MLOV’s goal of raising $5000 to advance their language justice campaign in 2015. Food is particularly important to the immigrant communities MLOV works with, not just as a way to maintain connection to one’s identity and national origin, but because many of the communities’ food insecurity and/or unfair conditions in the food industry are exacerbated by language barriers.
“A Taste of Immigrant DC” gives everyone a chance to reflect upon MLOV’s language justice work that can address these social ills – including the inaccessibility of healthy, affordable food for DC’s limited English proficient/non-English proficient (LEP/NEP) communities, while also serving as an important celebration of the communities themselves – in the most delicious way possible!
** MLOV is honored to have Pansaari offer an exclusive one-hour cooking class at A Taste of Immigrant DC, where 20 special donors will learn how to make a full South Asian meal and then enjoy that meal in traditional copper dinner ware. Beverages, including wine/beer will be served alongside. In India, a “pansaari” is a specialty spice grocer, a fixture of the community. Pansaari is a recently opened store in Dupont Circle that aims to bring the traditions of Jaipur, India and the larger South Asian Subcontinent to the DC community. Pansaari provides fresh South Asian spices and local produce, daily prepared foods, a full chai bar, cooking classes, beautiful fabrics and linens, and a place to sit down and relax.
