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FLAGSHIP PROGRAM · PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
Taste
Keepers
Recipes carry more than ingredients.
Foodways · Family Memory · Migration · Intergenerational Storytelling
PROGRAM PURPOSE
Using food as a doorway into family memory, migration and belonging.
Taste Keepers is a community arts and cultural-development framework centred on foodways, family memory and intergenerational transmission.
Its focus is not simply what people cook. It is what food can reveal about journeys, work, adaptation, care, place and the ways knowledge survives from one generation to the next.
PROGRAM STATUS NOTE · Taste Keepers is presented as a program framework. Public pages do not imply confirmed funding, partners, dates, participants or delivery commitments unless separately confirmed.
WHO IT IS FOR
Memory often survives in ordinary acts of making and sharing food.
Communities
Food traditions that connect migration, neighbourhood, celebration and belonging.
Knowledge Holders
Older participants whose practice and memory may not yet exist in an archive.
Next Generations
Younger people learning not only a recipe, but the story and responsibility that travel with it.
HOW PARTICIPATION MAY WORK
Listen first. Make together. Decide together what can travel.
Activities can be shaped around the community and the material available. Participation does not require a polished story or a complete family archive.
01LISTENBegin with memory, context and what matters to the contributor.
02CO-DESIGNAgree purpose, permissions, boundaries and cultural care.
03MAKECook, record, photograph, interview or interpret where appropriate.
04RETURNBring the story and material back to the people who shared it.
05STEWARDPreserve context, provenance, access conditions and future meaning.
CREATIVE HERITAGE STREAM · IN DEVELOPMENT
GOLD 1896
A Taste Keepers Story
Food · Migration · Memory · Western Australia
Historical fiction creates another way to ask how food and family memory move across time. GOLD 1896 explores that question through a distinct literary work connected to Taste Keepers' public cultural themes.
Creative Integrity & Community Rights
EXPLORE GOLD 1896
Community research, workshops and heritage interpretation can contribute to the cultural work of Taste Keepers, while GOLD 1896 remains a distinct work of historical fiction. Stories, recipes, photographs or interviews shared by contributors are never automatically incorporated into the novel.
FICTION · MEMORY · FOODWAYS
POSSIBLE PUBLIC OUTCOMES
The format follows the story.
Food memories documented with context, provenance and contributor permissions.
Intergenerational making, listening and story-development activities.
Community-authorised documentation that connects people, place, food and memory.
Selected public-facing outcomes where rights, readiness and available resources allow.
CULTURAL CARE
Not every recipe, photograph or memory needs to become public.
Participation begins a conversation. WAIIVPA may need to discuss consent, family ownership, cultural authority, provenance, living people, privacy and access conditions before any material is used publicly.
READ ICIP & CULTURAL PROTOCOL →START WITH A MEMORY
Is there a food story your family or community should not lose?
A recipe, ingredient, kitchen, farm, shop, meal or family ritual can be enough to begin.
SHARE A FOOD MEMORY