Food you can build, look at, share, and eat

For one afternoon, the Bozar Rooftop turns into a kitchen, a studio, and a playground at once. Vanna invites the Brussels creative community to treat food as a material, something to shape with your hands.

Chef Lucille Griffon brings the ingredients. You do the rest.

Together you build an edible artwork: part installation, part snack, part experiment. And folded into all of it, one question - what does food safety really mean, and what can creatives bring to it?

Programme

• 4:00 PM · Doors open
• 4:15–4:30 PM · Opening words from Vanna and Lucille Griffon. Why food safety matters now, and where creatives fit in
• 4:30–5:30 PM · Build. Participants co-create a collective food artwork from the chef's palette of ingredients, presented and tasted together.
• 5:30–6:00 PM · Eyes closed. A blind tasting for those who dare. End of the experience
• After · The rooftop stays open. Stay for the view.

The concept

The experience you are about to live borrows its shape from the European campaign Love it. Hate it. Trust it! Three ways of relating to food for the afternoon:

Love it. The ingredients we reach for without thinking. The favourites. Hate it. The ones we usually skip. given a second look through presentation. Trust it. A blind experience, built from the French y aller les yeux fermés

The edible artwork

At the centre: a large-scale artwork, you build entirely from ingredients you can eat afterwards. It puts Love it and Hate it in the same frame: beloved and unloved ingredients side by side, cutting through habit.

No one watches a chef perform. You build it yourself, together Lucille, with her universe as the guide.

The partners

Vanna

Vanna is a creative community and hub. We bring together emerging creatives, professionals, studios and organisations around live experiences : talks, gatherings, meet-ups, and The Creative Type podcast. The environment is open, intentional, playful, collaborative: a space where different minds and ideas meet without barriers.

Lucille Griffon

Lucille Griffon is a chef and culinary artist. Her work is built on an honest connection to the land and to the times we live in. She cooks plant-based and seasonal, weaving cultural traditions, artistic references, and technique into dishes that tell a story. For her, cooking is a dialogue, between colour, texture, and taste, and its first purpose is to connect people.

EU Food Safety

This event is part of Love it. Hate it. Trust it!, the European Commission's campaign on food safety across the EU.

The idea is simple: Europe holds some of the highest food-safety standards in the world, from additives and packaging to labelling, hygiene, and traceability, and most of us never notice them.

The campaign brings them into view. It works to raise awareness of those standards, to back food-safety measures grounded in science, and to strengthen trust in European food.