Supper Club | Food is our Common Language: Uncomfortable at Home with Nitesh Tailor

Nitesh Tailor serves up a 6-course meal of Gujarati-Kenyan cuisine for the next stylish supper club in Bow Arts’ Nunnery Cafe Residency.

With a menu inspired by Nitesh Tailor’s documentary “Food is our common language: Re-imagined”, which explores his family’s two-part migration from Kenya to India, and then India to England, this supper club is bound to be superb. Join Nitesh at the Nunnery Cafe for 6 courses of delicious Gujarati-Kenyan cuisine: enjoy 2 starters, 2 mains, and 2 delectable desserts.

As part of Uncomfortable at Home, Nitesh is creating a safe space in the Nunnery Cafe for for people from the Global South living in the Global North (including people born here who belong to Global South diasporas).

Nitesh will return as part of the Nunnery Cafe Residency on the 24th of August for Uncomfortable at home: Performance night (hosted by Nitesh and Nour)

Get together a group to take advantage of our discounted ticket bundles, or book quickly to catch our ‘Early Bird’ tickets. Soft drinks and alcoholic beverages including a range of cocktails will be served by the Nunnery Cafe on the night.

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What is Uncomfortable at home?

Uncomfortable at home is a moving community safe space which prioritises people from the global south. It intends to tackle some of the inequitable structures which sustain the creative industry. It aims to initiate change by providing safe-spaces and low-cost (and free) opportunities, which put people from the global majority at the forefront.

People from the global majority face the tallest barriers within creative spaces – these are exacerbated depending on the intersections an individual interacts with, including socio-economic circumstances, gender, ethnicity and orientation. Counter-collectives which are intended to address these issues are not innocent in upholding these barriers. In-between talking to several creatives and myself being a full-time artist, I have come to find that classism, homophobia, and islamophobia, to name a few, are prevalent within the biggest counter-collectives. As a result, many underrepresent people feel marginalised in spaces which are meant to be for them. This project aims to bring these exact people together and give them autonomy over their collective safe space. This will be done by eliminating hierarchical structures, and by having an open public feedback system to maintain as much transparency as possible.

This event is part of the Nunnery Cafe Residency, a curated programme of events collaborating with artists and performers to explore food in all its forms.

(The concession rate applies to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists, National Art Pass members, and key workers)

About Nitesh Tailor

Nitesh Tailor is a chef and visual artist whose work navigates his experiences as a native Londoner and Gujarati-Kenyan. Through his chosen mediums – food, textiles, and film – he relays familial histories to educate audiences about the intricacies of diasporic variety. Much of his work is interactive with it calling for audience participation in a means to decolonise not only the histories themselves, but also the way they are received. Selected for the POCC autumn residency, his textile projection piece, “Discarded Fabrics” (2022) is a perfect example. Another work includes “Food is our Common Language” (2022). The most obvious indication of this was his role as chef and menu developer at Mother at Mosaic. There he strove to introduce people to the cuisines of the global majority through “home” style meals.

@nitesh__tailor99

Access information  

The Nunnery Gallery and Cafe have step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. The Bow Arts Courtyard includes access to an accessible toilet. These venues do not have a hearing loop system.  

Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.  

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 table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!

Transport Information  

Opening hours: Tues-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.