Samantha DeLucena - Caldato

PROFILE

With a master´s in Agroecology, a diploma in plant base cuisine, and in permaculture and as a musician-producer, throughout my work, I have been reflecting on the impact of food and using our fork as a social-political tool and communication.

My focus is on creating experiences where we share the diaspora and strengths of food, rhythms and music throughout human displacement and how what connects us goes beyond borders and man-made concepts of nations. These are seeds, stories and knowledge related to our path on Earth. Bringing in my Brazilian culture with reflections and influences of music, dance, Bem Viver and interconnections to connect us in our diversity, co-creating art in a collective and
accessible way.

EXPERIENCE

1997 - 1999 — Favela Chic Paris

Event producer of parties at Bataclan and Ulysses Montmartre
Artistic Producer of first Brasilian music compilation Favela Chic Postonove I
Afro Reggae social work in Europe with performances and social exchange.

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01/2013 to current — CEO Paisagismo Comestivel

http://paisagismocomestivel.com

Paisagismo Comestível is an urban edible garden development company in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. We plan, built, plant and maintain organic edible gardens in residential, commercial and public areas. Also Paisagismo built and maintained all organic gardens for brasilian chef Bela Gil cooking TV show. We also designed and installed our project ‘garden- benches’ and planted aromatic herbs to mark the seated area and create and aromatic experience during theconcerts and presentations.

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2018 to current —  PermaSonic 

Permasonic an installation with plants using pulse sensitive -energy devices to transform bio- electric signals into sound. This work relates to people, soil and food, while when possible also cooking a meal using only local sourced and biological produce. The intention is to make the public experience the “sounds of plants” and bring awareness to the energy - communication of the plant world.

 

2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 — Providenza farm in Corsica
https://providenza.cc/events/nicolas-becker-and-samantha-caldato/

 

2019, 2021, 2022 - Jardin portes ouverts” at Chateaux de brantes in Sorgues

https://www.jardindebrantes.com/samantha-de-lucena-caldato

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2022 - London with Clean Power - The Voices of Creation

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2018 to current — Private Chef 

Catering of private events and working on food as a healing force for private clients and family members. Working with Los Angeles based chef Fred Eric who has been developing a healing broth for the last 10 years and is getting ready to bring it to the market.

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Founding of Ammar Seeds - 2019 to current (AMMAR Seeds is a not-for profit 501 c3 organization based in California) https://www.ammarseeds.org

Ammar Seeds diffuses knowledge and awareness of the interconnections between soil, plants, life on earth and the food we cook and eat. Our project passionately believes in the power of co-creation and the transmission of wisdom. We organize encounters bringing people together around food, stories, and contact with the land. Bringing to the surface, through conversations, the memory of the knowledge we all carry and share in our diversity. Cooking together over open fire enables us to produce common food and nourishment. It reminds us of our diversity and humanity, among others, a remarkable denominator: the agency to grow, cook and feed our means of subsistence while weaving stories around a culture of nourishment. The project aims to reclaim and share our human and communal knowledge while creating an interactive global database of the stories and recipes shared. A “seed bank” where our seeds are the oral heritage on nourishment.

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EDUCATION

1998 - Université Paris VII - Jussieu - bachelor Ethnologie
2019 -  diploma Institute of Culinary Education, Los Angeles
2020 - Permaculture Certification Ecoversity - Costa Rica
2021 - Master degree in Agroecology and Food Sovereignty - UNISG - University of Gastronomic Science - Italy

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