Autumn & Winter Events 2025

From talks to cookery classes, supper clubs to food symposiums, Sticky Fig convenes conversations that aim to reshape food and hospitality.

Sticky Sessions: Manchester 

Where food meets fire, stories simmer, and ideas take root. Our Autumn programme brings together the voices reshaping food and hospitality.

From intimate conversations to product masterclasses, farm-tours to trainings, we create space for conversations that challenge convention, celebrate craft and build community. Join us as we explore the stories and issues, obstacles and opportunities facing food.

São Paulo & the future of food

Join us in São Paulo, Brazil's gastronomic hot-spot, for two days of inspiration, connection and insight designed to reach food and hospitality entrepreneurs. 

Expect inspirational keynotes, round-table discussions and collaborative workshops that showcase the culinary innovators, production disruptors and rising stars of Brazilian gastronomy.

SCRAN: A Manchester Food Forum

Connecting across farms, kitchens and communities. 
Coming January 2025 | Track Brewery, Manchester

 

SCRAN is an innovative one-day gathering uniting chefs, farmers, producers, and community leaders to reimagine Manchester’s food economy. Through keynotes, panels, and collaborative breakouts, we aim to spark connections, build network and develop ideas in support of resilient regional food economies.

"Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world."

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry