FAIR SHARE FARE
CREATIVE
Fair Share Fare is a collaborative, multi-platform project focused on future food security in a time of climate change. Formed in 2016 by artists Jen Rae and Dawn Weleski, FSF aims to provoke discourse around food system knowledge and current patterns of food production, consumption, distribution and waste. Fair Share Fare orchestrates interactive and cooperative works that act as data generators and community builders to:
dispel myths and increase literacy about food;
help decolonise thinking around food provenance, whilst advocating for food and land sovereignty;
activate skills and knowledge sharing around food systems to support future food security; and,
to reimagine a food system that should have been and still could be.
CONSULTING + RESEARCH
Jen Rae is currently working with the Open Food Network on the Moreland North Food Hub Feasibility Study on community engagement and research including developing and co-facilitating co-design workshops, stakeholder consultations and interviews. Workshop materials will be made available through Creative Commons at the completion of the report. For more information: Moreland Conversations Food Hub
IN COMMUNITY
Fair Share Fare in collaboration with Fawkner Food Bowls launched a 6-month food hub pilot called Fawkner Commons in May 2020 in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Working with local community food organisations such as the Community Grocer, Open Table, Boom Foods and the Fawkner Wholefoods Collective, Fawkner Commons is a hub for local food production, aggregation, distribution, access and relief. Operating on the Open Food Network platform, you can find out more information here or on Facebook or Instagram.
2030 SURVIVAL GUIDE
CLIMARTE Poster Project II commissioned ten contemporary artists to each create a unique poster provoking public dialogue and accelerating a response to the unfolding climate crisis. Hundreds of the posters were plastered around Melbourne as well as exhibited at Testing Grounds during the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 Festival.
The 2030 Survivial Guide is a visual double entendre and a provocation to consider a future impacted by climate change from a disaster preparedness perspective. The illustration provides basic instructions on how to field dress a rabbit in case of food scarcity. It also brings to the fore questions around the abdication of climate action and responsibility by the global elite; altruism and population control; and, international food security.