Power of Food Festival
2025-09-18 | Tower Hamlets Town Hall, United Kingdom
Power of Food Festival is a 10-day festival across Tower Hamlets – celebrating the borough’s community and food cultures, and showcasing local projects building fairer, more sustainable food systems. There will be inspiring, thought-provoking and delicious events including community meals, supper clubs, workshops, film screenings, photography exhibitions, kids’ activities, panel discussions, and tours of gardens and food-growing spaces, including a farm based in Essex that grows food for the borough.

The opening event will take place on Thursday 18th September 1730-1900 at Tower Hamlets Town Hall. There will be stalls, a shared meal, talks and performances that share local work and our collective vision for a food system, as well as exploring what is needed for wider change.
The closing event will take place on Sunday 28th September 1600-2000 at Rich Mix. There will be food, music (DJ sets from our festival friends), and art activities. It will be a chance to relax, celebrate and connect with each other!
The festival is delivered with funding from the Just Food and Climate Transition Programme, with groups and organisations coming together across the borough. It is being co-ordinated by Wen (Women’s Environmental Network) and the festival working group (Hussina Raja, Elle McAll, Rae Hippolyte, Andrea Torrico and Maud Barrett).

Groups, organisations and artists collaborating on the festival include: Oitij-jo Collective, House of Annetta, Rich Mix, Women’s Inclusive Teams/Bangladeshi Mental Health Forum, The Scene, Boil & Bubble, Cranbrook Community Food Garden, the Right to Grow campaign, Eat Club, Folx Farm, Green Lions, MAD LEAP, Poplar Union, Platform and the Blueprint Architects, Nurull Islam, Public Works, Mathilde Hansen, Swadhinata Trust, Society Links, Somos Semilias, South Asian Sisters Speak, Spitalfields City Farm, Stepney City Farm, Ocean Women’s Network, Sunny Jar Eco Hub, United Domestic Workers, Tower Hamlets Food Partnership, Limborough Hub, Food Lives, Tower Hamlets Fairtrade Partnership, Whitechapel Gallery, St Margarets House, Leaders in Community, Teviot Food Coop.
