Eat The Street
Eat the Street:
A brutally honest take on the restaurants of the Launceston CBD shared through a unique series of dinners, and awards ceremony, where the only opinions that matter are those of the kids.
Presented by Streets Alive in association with Mammalian Diving Reflex and Mowbray Heights Primary school, the innovative arts project involved a group of students from Mowbray Heights Primary School dining from the standard lunch or dinner menus at the participating restaurants, in turn, over a number of weeks. The students then personally created a range of different categories, selected the winner for each one, and staged a special awards ceremony, presenting the awards to the successful restaurants and staff.
The learning was not limited to understanding different types of foods, encouraging good eating habits or learning general etiquettes in public. It was about bringing together people who don't normally socialise in different contexts. Project students learnt how to use public transport courtesy Metro Tasmania, undertake a tour of Drysdale, take pasta cooking classes with Pasta Resistance, undertook workshops with Lenine Bourke a practicing artist from Queensland and participate in a workshop with a food critic.
Mammalian Diving Reflex , led by Darren O'Donnell and Natalie De Vito, is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere. Mammalian Diving Reflex smashes ideas together at high speeds to see what pops out, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, theoretical texts and community happenings.
Working with adults and children alike, Mammalian Diving Reflex creates critically-engaged participatory performances including Slow Dance with Teacher, The Children's Choice Awards, Old People Shooting Guns and the international hit Haircuts by Children. MDR has thrilled audiences all over the world in Sydney, Melbourne, Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Bologna, Terni, Oslo, Trondheim, Lahore, Mumbai, Montreal, Victoria, Vancouver, and at home in Toronto.
The Restaurants
Fresh on Charles, Romanelli's, Fluid, Cafe@Sebel, O'Keefe's, Toro's on York, Archers Manor, The Prickly Cactus, The Royal Oak, Stillwater, Flip Burgers, The Northern Club.