The Vegetable Parliament: GROWING SESSION #3

Universal Rights of Organisms

A milpa has been growing on an outdoor installation in the silent green garden since March: “The Vegetable Parliament”. Its basic principle is mixed cultivation: it is vital for the growth and survival of the milpa that the different species harmonize with each other.

The event series The Growing Sessions takes this as its starting point: to accompany the growth of the milpa, we grow together with it. We contribute our knowledge and curiosity, our collective work, our bodies and cultural practices. During the Growing Sessions, the Vegetable Parliament will take root with the neighborhood as well as with international actors and create a cross-species community. Invited guests from the fields of activism, art, music, performance and poetry will open up insights into indigenous agricultural practices and post-human utopias in their sessions, bringing organism democracies to life and interweaving us in alliance with the plants. 

Not far from silent green—on a vacant lot between Osloer Straße 107 and 108—lies a small magical place where all living species have equal rights: the Organism Democracy. On June 25, this multi-species community, initiated by Club Real, will make a state visit to the Vegetable Parliament, present the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Organisms, and open its contents up for public debate.
 

Programme
11. Jul 2025: part three THE GROWING SESSIONS: The Milpa Principle

22.–24. Jul 2025: part three THE GROWING SESSIONS: Mistura 

14. Aug 2025: part four THE VEGETABLE OPERA 

13. Sep 2025: part five THE CONQUERING BANQUET

Full programme: www.thevegetableparliament.com

Wednesday, June 25
Garden
Start: 6 pm
Free Admission
In English
 

Team
Artistic Director: José Délano
Curator “The Growing Sessions”: Christian Hiller
 

“The Vegetable Parliament” is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.