Call To Cooks
Submit a tutu's (grandmother's) recipe with a story, memory, or appreciation—high-res food photos encouraged but the story and recipe are the main focus.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- 22 days left
- Entry fee
- Free
- Location
- Hawaii
- Exhibition window
- Sep 26, 2026 → Oct 24, 2026
About
Overview
Join a friendly and informal recipe-sharing experience at the EHCC Gallery. Submit a tutu's (grandmother's) recipe along with a story, memory, or appreciation for this family gift of food. High-res photos of food are encouraged, but the main interest is the story and recipe. Three local recipes will be presented in the Ola Nā Iwi Gallery during September and October, with overflow recipe stories available online. If your recipe and story are selected for the gallery, volunteers will assist with presentation.
Key Dates
- International submissions due: September 5, 2026 via ArtCall
- Local submissions accepted in Gallery until: September 14, 2026
- Recipe Event Dates (tentative): September 26, 2026; October 3, 2026; October 24, 2026
Eligibility
Open to anyone with a tutu's recipe and a story, memory, or desire to share appreciation for this family gift of food.
About the Exhibition
The E'Ai exhibition showcases various works including contemporary paintings, sculptures, and traditional food-related tools and objects. It explores island intelligence and lived experiences of food, including traditional knowledge systems and contemporary political and social realities around food access and sovereignty. The exhibition also celebrates the intimate, relational, and cultural dimensions of food as nostalgia and remembrance.
Fees
- EHCC Members: Free
- Non-EHCC Members: $20
Special Details
All ingredients will be provided. A portion of the meals will be reserved to serve the houseless community that takes shelter on the Gallery's front lanai.
- Entry fee
- $0.00 - 25.00
- Theme
- The exhibition explores island intelligence and lived experiences of food, including traditional knowledge systems (lo'i, loko iʻa, wa'a, akua) and their interconnected dimensions, as well as contemporary political and social realities around food access, food sovereignty, and the intimate, cultural, and relational dimensions of food as nostalgia and remembrance.
- Eligibility
- International
- Audience
- Anyone who has a tutu's recipe and a story, memory, or just the desire to share appreciation for this family gift of food.
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