Mother Tongue: The Kitchen Residency, a collaboration between whatsthebigmistry, Primary and members of our community.

Featuring a showcase of gorgeous hand-built ceramics created by HEYA during their workshops with whatsthebigmistry at Primary over the past two months.

MOTHER TONGUE: Kitchen Residency
took place at Primary from May-June 2025, with Priya Mistry using the Primary kitchen as a base to work with local cooks & those embracing caring cultures of life inc @gugan.gill from @artefactprojects and @eshekiamazuri , artists and communities to explore and evoke Black & Brown joy – focusing on acts of decolonisation, celebration, communing and much more. The residency is part of a multi-city programme of activity and events.

Central to the programme is Mistry’s first solo exhibition ‘The Empire’s Old Clothes’ at Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester) from 24 April – 29 June 2025. This programme of work is at once a provocation and an invitation to re-think and re-write ‘histories’, to demand change and define what it really means to take action against racism.

Funding & partners
@aceagrams @attenboroughac @weareunltd @weareprimary @disabilityarts @chisenhaledance @ortgallery