kitchen |_ki ch _n| - noun

1. a room or area where food is prepared and cooked.
   • a set of fixtures, cabinets, and appliances that are sold together and installed in such a room or area : a complete kitchen at a bargain price.
   • cuisine : the dried shrimp pastes of the Thai kitchen.
2. informal the percussion section of an orchestra.
3. [as adj. ] (of a language) in an uneducated or domestic form : kitchen Swahili.

Phrases 'Everything but the kitchen sink' - informal humorous everything imaginable. Origin Old English cycene; related to Dutch keuken and German Küche, based on Latin coquere 'to cook.' Greenbelt The Kitchen emerges from a hunch that Greenbelt is a place where all kinds of practical responses to injustice germinate, and follows some thinking that we could provoke and promote this more effectively in the Festival's programme.

The Kitchen:
• provides a space for Greenbelters to think through practicalities, cook up ideas and hatch a plot, which they take away and implement elsewhere…
• is ambitious with its content – focused on transforming our world, starting 'round here', in the neighbourhood… Content can be 'glocal' - global in reach, though with a local implication…
• is about fun - the Kitchen is frequently the best place to be at a party, provides warmth, generates a buzz is a space to be creative, paint, draw, have a brew, talk, listen, meet… and cook up a plan…
• enables those attending to take the 'next step' when they leave… to try 'everything imaginable'… (volunteering for a local charity, fostering a child, hosting meals, demonstrating at the town hall, organising 'Peace Week', doing home-visits or establishing a winter night shelter…)
• contrasts with Generous (which focuses on individual acts promoting sustainable living). The Kitchen focuses on collaboration and journeying together – based on a belief that injustice can bring very different people, faiths and ideas together to work for transformation. This is Greenbelt.
• is about nurturing practical neighbourliness in and out of the festival… it emphasises the practical and pragmatic which can be transferred and applied at home…