Music from the workshops
We are grateful to Anthony “Mighty Gabby” Carter, a legendary Barbadian calypsonian and a Cultural Ambassador for the island of Barbados, for allowing his amazing song “Bridgetown” to be used as part of our research and educational material!
Listen to the collaborative song we created with our RfR participants and collaborators from Song Academy
RECIPE FOR RESILIENCE – LYRICS
VERSE 1
Let’s talk about how food can connect us all
Let’s take dem
Ole time story an cookbook off the wall
Here is the secret to make sure we thrive.
fe all a we stay alive.. more
Kitchen gardens, more local foods
VERSE 2
Highway and houses replacing our crops
Me cyah eat brick, hey why can’t it stop?
Crisis here? Lets run a boat, de love is real.
Food should heal. Food should heal
CHORUS
Food and resistance
For climate resilience
Plants to make the planet last
Hurry hurry
Plants to make the planet last
Hurry hurry Di time is moving fast
POST CHORUS
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Hurry hurry Di time is moving fast
Hurry hurry Di time is moving fas
VERSE 3
Finger licking good but ain’t all good
Disconnected Food from afar make we forget who we are
Come take a walk down memory lane
Mama’s beef stew, Grandma’s grater cake
Pepperpot, pelau, African rice and callalloo, even okra too
Doh forget the pone and other sweet tings too and de bissy fe heal yu too!
Yuh hear the stirring in the kitchen
Don’t replace THAT with jus fast food deal. Hey.
CHORUS
Food and resistance
For climate resilience
Plants to make the planet last
Hurry hurry
Plants to make the planet last
hurry hurry
Di time is moving fast
POST CHORUS
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Hurry hurry Di time is moving fast
Hurry hurry Di time is moving fast
OUTRO
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Fast food, slow food
Past food, sow good fooood!
Inna Yaneva-Toraman 