Noo Arts + Consumption Book Club: Rooftop Dinner with The Light Eaters!

A rooftop garden gathering exploring plant intelligence, communication, and symbiosis through chef-crafted dishes and guided sensory activities, discussing Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters.

“We are what we eat” – a term often used in passing, without really considering the interconnectedness between ourselves and the ecosystems we belong to, consume from, and effect. Recent science has revealed that the gulf between plant and human experience is not as vast as many of us have been taught to believe. Plants can sense, remember, communicate, and even make decisions, upending everything we thought we knew about the line between "aware" and "inert." This session of Consumption Book Club turns that revelation into a menu, a garden walk, and embodied activities, guided by our reading: The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger.

This gathering will explore plant intelligence, communication, and the strange, sensing world of the beings we so often reduce to background scenery. What does it mean to "consume" when the plants on our plates and in our environments are sensing, remembering, and responding to us all along?

Join us on Sunday, July 26 from 4–7pm at our Kingsland Wildflowers rooftop garden in Greenpoint, where we'll wander among some of the very pollinators and plants that inspired the book while guest chefs join us to serve up a menu designed around themes of botanical sensing, symbiosis, and survival. Between bites, we'll take part in artful activities exploring plant behavior firsthand by looking, touching, and thinking alongside the garden itself.

You'll leave full of quality vegetarian food, new ways of seeing the plants around you, and a zine of recipes, art, and reflections to take home.

No pressure if you haven't finished the book; we'll make sure everyone can join the conversation, with key excerpts available ahead of time. Come hungry, and come curious!

RESERVE YOUR SEATS HERE ~ Pay what you wish above $30!