motiroti's Potluck is an open kitchen in which everyone is invited to bring and take from the table. Using food sharing as a core approach, diverse participants are all each other's guests and hosts.

The Potluck kitchens are designed to bring together people who would never otherwise break bread together - and to harness this diversity to kickstart new conversations about the future of our plural cities.

The Potluck cooks up new approaches to social art making in terms of both practitioner tools and open organisational structures. A Potluck offers contemporary, practitioner-centred training to those working in community and participatory arts, and explores community building, creative placemaking and activism.

Potlucks run online as well as offline, to extend and capture the conversations. motiroti offers ongoing support to Potluck nodes, aiming to connect Potluck activity across different cities and continent, enabling practitioners to connect, compare and collaborate internationally.

The Potluck was launched in Chicago in 2011/12, where motiroti is the resident company for the Critical Encounters programme at Columbia College Chicago. Local partners included The Dorchester Project, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the En Las Tablas Performing Arts Center. motiroti is actively seeking collaborators in other cities who may wish to open a kitchen in their neighbourhoods.

For more information contact: Tim Jones, Executive Director, motiroti: tim (at) motiroti (dot) com.