Tipsy Night School ft Dr Aparajita Sengupta | Out in Kolkata
Tipsy Night School is a lecture-in-a-bar experience where an expert delivers a talk while audiences listen, ask questions, and sip on drinks!
What's included: The Lecture, the Q/A, & 1 Cocktail
Student ticket holders must display a valid Student ID at the gate.
Lecture Title:
Why Broccoli will Not Save Your Life: Local Food Cultures and the Future of the Planet
About The Lecture:
In this talk, farmer and permaculture expert, Dr Aparajita Sengupta, who has been growing her own poison-free food for the last 12 years will explore vital questions related to local and chemical-free food systems. The discussion will cover why 10,000 years of chemical free farming gave way to the lethal agri poisons of the last 50 years, the rise of organic food as an elite and exotic market, and the slim chance of survival offered to the human species based on their choice of food.
Speaker: Dr Aparajita Sengupta, Permaculture Designer, Co-founder, Smell of the Earth Farms
Dr Aparajita Sengupta is a full-time sustainable farmer, farmers' trainer and certified Permaculture designer and consultant.
She has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Kentucky, Lexington and a Permaculture Design Certification from Mineral Springs, Darjeeling. In 2014, she set up the Smell of the Earth Farm, a two-acre self-sustaining farm in Ruppur, Birbhum, West Bengal, and is currently involved in all aspects of running the farm and the farm-store Dakai that specializes in selling local, poison-free products from the farm and local growers.
Based in Birbhum, she researches, writes and speaks about sustainable food-producing systems, contemporary women farmers and back-to-landers, gender and domesticity in the context of farming. Her work covers technical teaching of sustainable farming as well as academic approaches to women's experiences and positions within the field of small-scale, land-based agricultural businesses.
Out in Kolkata, founded by Proiti and Analina, is an initiative aiming to dispel the myth of Kolkata as a ‘boring city where nothing interesting ever happens.’ They promote curated lists of art and culture events taking place across the city, and design fun but meaningful experiences for engaged audiences.