Behind The Seen started because a group of us Ananya, Divya, Jess, Shythira, Zahra and I kept coming back to the same feeling: that something real happens when people eat together. Not networking, not performance but care and camaraderie, so we built a space around it.

​

The invitation is simple: come as you are. Bring your hunger, bring your stories, bring whatever you're carrying.

​

Recipes of Healing is what grew out of that. It's a dining circle, a gathering, an installation but really it's an offering. And at this gathering, food is never just food. A recipe holds a grandmother's hands, a migration, a grief, a land you've never stood on but somehow still know. We're interested in all of that. Memory, ritual, resistance, these get passed around alongside the dishes.

​

The space itself is made from materials that speak to where we come from, plural and layered as that is including a tapestry each of us created collectively. We don't want it to feel fixed or permanent because it isn't. Each time we gather it's somewhere that means something spiritually, personally, politically.

What we've found, again and again, is that eating together does something nothing else quite does. It loosens things. People share what they might not otherwise share. Histories surface. Futures get imagined out loud.

​

That's what we're after, not just a meal, but the becoming that happens around one.