COMMUNITY KITCHEN

Community Kitchen is our cultural exchange project that brings people together through shared cooking, storytelling, and care. Each gathering centers a family from our local community, inviting them to share food traditions from their home culture while cooking alongside neighbors in Laramie. We partnered with Relative Theatrics on their production of FEAST, a play exploring themes of genocide, oppression, and resiliency. We popped up our community kitchen at Devine Eats, wehre the doors were open for over 12 hours and over 50 community members sat with us and rolled grape leaves, cooking alongside Eman and Abdalrahim- a Palestinian family from Gaza who now live and work in Laramie. Through the simple, intimate act of preparing a meal together, participants learn not only recipes, but the histories, memories, and lived experiences carried through food. That community-created meal was served at each production of FEAST feeding nearly 300 patron— extending the power of Palestinian cuisine to tell stories of place and pride.

This project creates space for cultural knowledge to be shared on its own terms—at the kitchen table—fostering mutual understanding, dignity, and belonging across difference. The kitchen functions as a temporary studio, where cooking is understood as an embodied, creative practice shaped by memory, migration, care, and improvisation.

Partners include: Devine Eats, Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Cultural Club, Relative Theatrics, Wyoming Humanities