FOOD & IDENTITY IN OAXACA

Immersive Experience February 15 - 18, 2023

Join a global network of creative thinkers, designers, chefs, artists and strategists for three days, four nights of experiential immersion in Food and Identity.

How can local ecosystems be better supported in the global market? Join the discourse through dinner parties with Oaxaca’s top indigenous and contemporary chefs, artist visits and design workshops, tastings at mezcal farms and more.

Get your tickets

SEGD members get a $500 credit toward their experience tickets.
Enter "SEGD500" in the discount code at checkout to redeem.

What you will experience

Talk with Oaxacan artists Jaime Ruiz and Rame Cuen about how their arts practice and galleries interact with local communities
Meet the Ángeles family at their workshop and learn how their artistic practice has become central to their village’s economy
Experience a design workshop with 1050 Grados, a studio preserving indigenous ceramic production processes
Explore the legacies of iconic Oaxacan art leaders of the past, Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo
Tour local mezcal farms implementing self-sustaining models driven by indigenous communities
Meet and eat with some of Oaxaca’s players in the contemporary food scene, including former winner of Top Chef Mexico, Rodolfo Castellanos and the team at NOIS
Shop with a chef in Central Market to procure ingredients for a Oaxacan meal
Stay in a boutique hotel in central Oaxaca City

Why choose this immersion?

Connect with a global network of creative leaders

From contacts at site visits to fellow immersion participants, you’ll be introduced to a group of diverse designers, artists, chefs and strategists.
Investigate innovative approaches to problem solving that can change how you think and work

Our discussions and design workshop will allow you to consider how the sustainable, equitable, and innovative food systems we’ve investigated can translate to your work.
Boutique hotel, quality food, traditional mezcal and original art

Murmur Ring has curated a once-in-a-lifetime experience that not only fosters creative and expansive thinking, but includes luxe features like boutique hotel stays, quality food prepared by Oaxacan culinary artists, traditional mezcal and original art.