Join us for The Art of Fermentation: A Hands-On Workshop & Tasting Experience, led by artist Lorena Rodriguez. This interactive program explores the history, cultural significance, and creative traditions of fermentation across cultures, highlighting how fermented foods and beverages bring people together.
Participants will engage in guided discussion and hands-on learning while discovering fermentation as both a cultural practice and an art form. The experience concludes with a curated tasting featuring traditional fermented beverages such as Chicha de Maíz and Tepache, offering a flavorful way to connect theory with practice.
Designed for curious beginners and food enthusiasts alike, this workshop invites community members to learn, taste, and connect in a welcoming and inclusive setting. No prior experience is required.
Tickets: HERE
- Presale (through 1/9/25): $20
- I-House Members & Students: $15
- At the door (all attendees): $25
*To keep our events open and welcoming, free tickets are available if cost is a barrier—request one here: bit.ly/ihouseticketrequest
About the Artist: Lorena Rodriguez
A multidisciplinary artist and peace educator, Lorena Rodriguez explores the connections between creativity, collective memory, and social transformation. Trained in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution (ICU, Japan), she has co-created sensory, artistic, and educational experiences across the Americas and Asia that foster social and environmental justice, while nurturing collective imagination and the creation of systems rooted in care, well-being, and creativity.
Growing up in a family where love was served through cooking, and shaped by over a decade of learning at the crossroads of ancestral wisdom, art and science, Lorena works in the languages of culinary art, performance, storytelling, and music. Her work feeds both body and spirit, cultivating new ways of relating and opening brave spaces to dialogue and unlearn around issues on diversity, equity and resistance.
In 2023, she founded Chicha Fest, a community process that builds collective art spaces, shares practices on culinary art, and serves as a grassroots school for sustainable agriculture, art, and science.
This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the City of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs Program
