Food Justice Fortnight 2025: Exploring food as a powerful tool for change  

In our latest blog, Feeding Bristol’s Mali Evans introduces this year’s Food Justice Fortnight theme: Food and Power.

With more than 26 events across Bristol, the fortnight celebrates how communities can use food to connect, challenge injustice and create lasting change. Explore the full programme and get involved today.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since the last Food Justice Fortnight, when we spent two weeks sharing food stories and connecting over conversations about food equality and making Bristol a city where everyone can access the food they need to live well. But here we are – ready to launch another two weeks of engaging, motivating and delicious events!   

What is Food Justice Fortnight?  

This will be Food Justice Fortnight’s third year running. It serves many purposes, but at its core is the belief that if you bring people together over food and create space for conversation and the sharing of ideas and stories about fairness, you create the foundation needed to build community resilience and defy harmful narratives that try to drive us apart. 

Food and Power 

This year’s theme is Food and Power, but what does this mean?  

Food *is* power. It has the power to fuel elite athletes, the brightest thinkers, most dazzling performers and billions of everyday acts of kindness. Food has the power to nourish our minds and lift our spirits, the power to break down barriers and build bridges. It evokes the most profound emotions: comfort, happiness, a sense of identity and home. It can communicate our love and care for one another as well as to ourselves. It connects communities all over the world and can be a powerful act of solidarity between them.  
 
But who carries and shares this power? We do! Together, and only together, can we embrace its potential to challenge injustice. When we are united, its power grows and the opportunities to make positive and lasting change grow too.  
 
But we need some tools. Whether it’s skills to grow and prepare food, resources to cook and eat together, or the freedom to practise our food culture, these are essential ingredients for our journey towards becoming a city of Food Justice.  
 
Join us to explore the ways which we can embrace the power of food and think about how to harness the food powers that are unique to our communities. 

What can you expect?   

This year we have over 26 events and 30 cross-sector organisations from Bristol and beyond taking part, all of whom work tirelessly so that food can bring health, wellbeing and joy to everyone, regardless of income or background. Importantly, all the hosts are stalwart advocates for food being a tool to help make a fairer and more equitable future for all.

The event programme is bursting at the seams with events to suit everyone’s interests and palettes! You’ll find panel discussions, film showings, workshops, hands-on food activities and *many* shared meals, and most tickets are free!

Here are just a few of our highlights:  

• Food Justice Fortnight 25 Launch Event: Food and Power in Bristol on Monday 2 June, catered by Jikoni East Africa  

• Food, Power and Carnival – Panel Discussion and Dinner Fundraiser on Tuesday 3 June (sell out warning!) 
  
  

• Rooted in Bristol: Screening, Talk and Hip-Hop Workshop on Wednesday 4 June
  
  

• Family Food Takeover at St Pauls Adventure Playground on Saturday 7 June  

• Hospi-Charity Potluck Supper at Emmeline on Monday 9 June 

• Thinking About Food in Times of Crisis. How Would You Respond to Disaster? on Tuesday 10 June (NOW RESCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER)
  
  

• The Gathering Table: Summit on Racial Justice in the Food and Farming Sector on Wednesday 11 June  
  
  

Today, more than ever, we need to embrace ways to connect with our communities and find those crucial spaces of influence where we can work together so that our local food system benefits everyone in Bristol.   

We can’t wait to see you there!  

Click here to view the full programme and book your tickets.  

To stay updated on future events, job opportunities and news, don’t forget to sign up for the Bristol Good Food Update at bristolgoodfood.org/newsletter. Find Food Justice Fortnight events (and other good food events in the city) listed here on the Bristol Good Food website.