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Anna Glass created a dinner series called The Blue Kitchen Dinner in Delft, The Netherlands. In the October 2025 edition, LeAnna was a collaborator and guest chef. The two food designers created a dinner called The Soup Séance to welcome the season of Autumn. Anna transformed the space by thinking about movements, textures, and interactions. She brought guests together as if we were all ingredients and her apartment was one big soup pot. LeAnna reimagined the possibilities of flavors and how a dish can evolve throughout eating.

We celebrated the changing season by gathering around an interactive table with a six course soup tasting menu. Guests explored how different shaped spoons affirmed their identity and also changed the soup eating experience. This dinner conjured up conversations, melded new communities together, and like soup, we evolved from individuals into a collective energy by the end of the night.

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Photos by Pam Blankvoort

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Out Now - Globally Rooted Magazine Issue 04: Seasons

There is something radical about paying attention to the seasons. Issue 04 sits with this idea of noticing.

In this issue we invite you to slow down just enough to feel the shifts in seasons. We move through shifting seasons that shape how we live, love, create, leave, return, and understand ourselves over time. We invite you to pay attention to what is coming into season in your own life, and what is gently passing.

We asked contributors to think about seasons through the lens of home, garden, food and tradition. In this issue you will find photo essays, personal essays and poetry from South Africa, Colombia, Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, Mexico, Portugal, India, UK, and France.

With gratitude to all the contributors featured in this issue:
Hannah Herrera |
LeAnna Bussey & Anna Glass | & .studio
Aylin Graves | .in.the.aegean
Ivan Hernandez-Quintela |
Maria Rosales |
Andianne Gwyneth |
Priyanka Sacheti |
Marie Baum | .baum
Angel Maemu Nemakonde |
Nilufer Agcakisla |

Beauty Lies In Sight

Words by Christena Williams |

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Magazine | Issue 03

The Jamaican poet Christena Williams, better known by her stage name of Antonia Valaire was a Nominee in the 39th International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) Spoken word. She is a native from Portmore and her Alma mater is Spanish Town high school. Valaire has won the International Spoken Word Artist from the People of Extraordinary Talent (P.O.E.T), USA, for which she retained in 2021. As a podcaster of The Verandah Conversations she was nominated in Best radio, or online show, by (P.O.E.T), 2022 and 2023.

Valaire has a BA degree with Honors in History and Philosophy from the University of the West Indies. Her book “Pearls among Stones” won the Prime Minister’s National Youth Award. She is also the author of “Black Gold” and “Out from Babylon System: Liberation of Mind.”

In addition to writing, Valaire has performed on the Jamaican Poets School Tour, Bridgewater International Poetry festival virtual (USA), Submitted video to Ronda Leiria Poetry (Portugal), featured in The Gleaner, Poetry NZ 47 (New Zealand), and Shortlisted in Desmond O’Grady poetry (Ireland), & Matches shoes box was included in the Miss Lou 100 +Voices, (Jamaica). Additionally, she represented Jamaica at The Marché de la Poésie in France

Bee-ing Present: Journey of Self-Discovery in Sinai, Egypt

Words & Images by Sarah I. EL Raghy |

Magazine | Issue 03

This photo essay is about the journey of healing through slow living, mindfulness, and connection with nature and its creatures in the amazing landscape of Nuweiba City, Sinai, Egypt.

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Sarah is a photographer and visual storyteller based in Alexandria Egypt who also sometimes researches, translates, and writes. Sarah is interested in researching social changes and the impact of active movements on the self and social development context through creative photography. She studied veterinary medicine at Alexandria University and humanities & liberal arts at Cairo Institute for Humanities & Liberal Arts in Alexandria (CILAS Alex) and she is a member of Taking the Humanities on the Road (THoR) Lab. Bern University.

I grew up in a house with a sewing machine probably older than myself. Living with grandparents my entire younger years, I was raised with the philosophy of self-reliance - making and repairing things instead of buying new ones. They taught me to sew my own garments and mend tears in my clothes. The younger me was not very happy with that situation. I wanted new dresses, I wanted new skirts, I wanted jeans that were not resized hand-me-downs. When I left for college, my grandma gave me a box of threads and needles, which I refused, finding it embarrassing to bring sewing kits to the city where you can just buy anything. I thought I was finally free to drown myself in a pile of new clothes and shoes, just like scenes from moviesBack to Sewing [Excerpt from Issue 03]

Words & Images by Oktaviana Kale

Magazine | Issue 03 | Read full essay via link in bio.

Oktaviana Kale is a part-time teacher. In her spare time, she writes, sews, and tends her garden.

Little Things. A poem.
Words by Gwendolyn Beatrice

Magazine | Issue 03
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Gwendolyn Beatrice is a multidisciplinary artist transplant, living and creating in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Originally from Seattle, Washington, USA, they sought a better life abroad full of vibrancy, inspiration, and kindness in a beautifully chaotic time.

Gardening In Tune With Nature

Words & Images by Nicky Jenner |

Magazine | Issue 03

Co-creating a garden with nature is an ever-evolving relationship with the land and life with which we co-exist. It’s a conversation in which I listen and learn, follow nature’s lead, and garden in ways that create space and opportunity for life to thrive. Gardening in this way has an impact, supporting our native biodiversity right here on my doorstep and bringing moments of connection, beauty, and wonder into our lives every day.

These images capture a fleeting glimpse of just a few of the moments of inspiration and hope that our garden here in Devon, UK, brings through the wild lives it supports.

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Call For Submissions | Magazine Issue 04

Send us your photo essays, personal essays and poetry on the theme of ‘Seasons’. Contributions in relation to the topics of home, garden/nature, food or traditions are welcome.

At Globally Rooted, we celebrate creative and cultural heritage around the world. 🌏

Deadline: 31 October 2025
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