The People’s Kitchen
Kate O’Shea and Cork North Main Street Traders
Kate O’Shea is an artist and organiser. In 2015, she co-founded The People’s Kitchen, a space where people could come together to cook, eat, build community, and have a laugh as they shared ideas and formulated plans to address the challenges we face as communities today. The People’s Kitchen provides a framework for people passionate about systems change to literally sit around the kitchen table, share information and ideas from different perspectives, combine skills and knowledge, and formulate plans.
The People’s Kitchen focuses on the energy of collaboration and mutualism—rather than individualism, isolation, and competition—to get things done. Connection and building relationships make work more enjoyable, more nurturing, and more productive. Link, exchange, imagine, do. And have fun doing it.
The People’s Kitchen, North Main Street is funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme. You can read the three zines which came from this project below.