A convivium is a Slow Food local chapter - a group of members that spreads the Slow Food philosophy far and wide and makes it real. According to it’s inclination and imagination, each convivium organizes a number of events each year, ranging from simple dinners and tastings, where our members come together to share the everyday joys of food, to visits to local producers and farms, conferences and discussions, film festivals, Taste Education courses for children and adults, promoting CSA’s and Earth Markets, and many other events and projects to get to know local foods and producers and to educate others about them. They build networks among those who believe that ‘eating is an agricultural act’ and ‘producing a gastronomic act’, and bring this message to their communities. Convivia are the backbone of Slow Food and they are made possible only through the tireless work of our members, who volunteer their time and energy. Today, we have over 100,000 members involved in more than 1,000 convivia in 150 countries.
The Auckland Cormandel convivium has 2-3 meetings a year celebrating locally grown foods and wines,produced in our area.
We try to involve small businesses and produces that use the Slow food principles of Good,Clean and Fair.
