The Vegetable Parliament: GROWING SESSION #4

The Milpa Principle

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. 

The Berlin-based project Tlayolan critiques the global agribusiness and counters it with knowledge of Indigenous cultivation methods such as the milpa ecosystem. The milpa principle also forms the foundation of the Vegetable Parliament. In the Growing Sessions, the group around Monserrat Peniche provides insight into their community work and demonstrates how plants, animals, and humans can cooperate for the common good.
 

Programme
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

Friday, July 11
Garden
Start: 6 pm
Free Admission
 

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

“The Vegetable Parliament” is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.