The proceeds of this three-hour workshop go to Cooking Circles weekly lunches as the Currie Crescent Community Centre, and at the Canberra Islamic Centre. Please book your tickets online.

With the generous support of Foodish, Belconnen Fresh Food Markets http://www.cookingclassescanberra.com.au/

More about Narelle and her work at http://www.agardenforlife.com.au/

To find out more about Cooking Circles visit www.cookingcircles.org

Contact Heidi (cookingcirclescbr@gmail.com)

About Cooking Circles

The Cooking Circles vision sees empowered women building communities around themselves through food, cooking, storytelling with other women. The process of cooking together strengthens women’s self-confidence and self-worth. When women host they are fostering leadership qualities. And when women cook and dine together, storytelling inevitably follows.

Cooking Circles operates in Canberra and Timor Leste, and is a small project all about building networks between women through food, recipes and cooking. Cooking Circles has both a physical, on the ground element where stories and recipes are exchanged and women cook, meet and eat together. The process is photographed and videoed, and this connects it to its other element, social media. The Cooking Circles blog is a collection of pieces about women, culture and cooking in Timor Leste.

Cooking Circles aims to help women build social connections for their own wellbeing, in their communities. It is fairly well known that when a person is connected in their community, their vulnerability to social problems such as domestic violence decreases, and their resilience improves because they are better supported to deal with illness, loss of income or family breakdown.