Exhibition tour & workshop: ‘Have you eaten yet?’ storytelling and zine making with Ananya Jain x SHOR
Saturday 21st March 2026 , 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Join us for an exhibition tour and storytelling x zine making workshop led by Ananya Jain, founder of – SHOR (trans. noise) – a community for interactive, immersive and multi sensory art and cultural experiences. Together, we explore questions around memory, culture and migration. Jain believes in creating a dialogue through art and experiences: bring a food-related memory as a starting point and create a collective digital zine together!
The question ‘Have you eaten yet?’ tends to replace the words ‘I love you’, across households in many South and East Asian cultures. The act of preparing, laying out and serving food becomes the way to show care. It is a way to say, ‘I am here for you’.
Flavours, colours, aromas and textures are vessels for memories, stories, culture and survival. When you move away from whatever ‘home’ might be, food continues to serve as a sensory bridge for connection. This experience is both deeply personal, yet incredibly universal, no matter where you come from.
Drawing upon artist Laisul Hoque’s explorations of personal memory, microhistories and the links to wider collective and political histories, this intervention invites you to think about food as an act of everyday care and resistance.
The afternoon will begin with an exhibition tour and some time to collectively explore questions around food, memory, culture, and migration. Following this, we will create and share collages of our own food memories, putting them down on paper through text, images, and illustrations. These will be scanned to create a collective digital zine!
The only thing we ask you to bring is yourself and a food-related memory that you would like to share. You are also welcome to carry any photographs, objects, ingredients, or art supplies that you may want to use, but it is not necessary.
More about Ananya Jain and SHOR
Ananya Jain is a creative producer, writer, and curator based between London and Delhi. She is the founder of SHOR (trans. noise), a community bringing people together through immersive, and multisensorial art and culture experiences.
SHOR is an extension of Ananya’s curatorial practice, with a deep emphasis on collaboration and is aimed at allowing audiences from across background to connect with themselves, other people and the world around them.
SHOR has organised a range of exhibition walk-throughs at institutions like The Welcome Collection, the Barbican Centre and the Museum of the Home to name a few. They have also hosted a range collaborative creative workshops some of which include; Threads: A writing workshop with Nastia Svarevska titled ‘word is thread and thread is language’, ‘Love Tokens’ Handsewing Workshop with Caroline Ip, Taste: Ferment! at APT Gallery with The Thin Red Lion Collective’s ‘Pickled’ and Kneading: Draw with Flour with Maisongb and Lila Loisse at Small Time Projects.
More info here.
Access Information
The Nunnery Gallery and Café have step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a seat near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Wed-Sun, 10am to 4pm
Address: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
