Aunty Dotes & Dhol Puri

Funded by the University of Manchester and run by Keisha Thompson as part of her Innovation Fellowship.

In June 2024, myself and 4 artists from Manchester went to collaborate with 5 artists in Grenoble.

Hosted by MC2 in Grenoble and facilitated by the British Council.

Photography by Ella Mayamothi Sommeil

If you had the time to do something special with a group of people, teach them a skill or participate in activity that you don’t make time for in your daily life, what would that be?

Aunty Dotes and Dhol Puri is an antidote to the everyday world, space to spend time together doing things we don’t make time for anymore.

Here are some photos from a trial event at Hulme Community Garden Centre on 3rd July 2024.

I hosted the event with my nanny, Sylvaine and taught 5 folks of colour how to make aubergine + potato curry, dhol puri, cucumber salad, gateaux piment (chilli cakes) and coriander chutney.