During BEANS & BLOOM, Food Design Playground transforms into a vibrant world where beans take center stage for three days.

Sunday, June 14 — Festival Day (includes lunch)

A day when everything comes together.

You’ll start with a communal lunch to which you’ll contribute—a playful creation featuring green beans, communication, and memory.
Then you’ll make your way through the festival: workshops, lectures, installations, and performances.

What to expect:
– Hear stories in the Silent Garden about blooming beans and permaculture
– Bean Bar with surprising milkshakes, soft-serve ice cream, and bean glamour
– From bland to fantastic: Bean makeover ritual with za’atar
– Bean whisperer and cookbook author Joeri Veul teaches you all about “food videography”; let those beans swing!
– The Oral Oracle: a bean can predict your future
– Horny Hummus workshop (yes, exactly that)
– South African bean soup
– Aquafaba flowers, bean disco, and art installations

Creators and voices from home and abroad fill the spaces with ideas, flavors, and energy.

Language: English and Dutch
Sunday, June 14, 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
€42.50 (includes lunch and bean snacks)

• ✉️ Bean Mail Workshop – Let’s make a nostalgic cooperative bean salad together

• 🌿 Spice Up Your Beans Za’atar Workshop – Make Your Own Za’atar

• 🥤 Bean Bar – milkshakes, soft-serve ice cream, and other summer drinks made with beans!

• 🎥 Food Videography Workshop – Learn all about stop-motion with beans

• 🌸 Aquafaba flower meringues – a feast for the eyes, and what do they tell you?

• 🥄 Horny Hummus Workshop – yes, it’s exactly what you’re hoping it is

• 🌱 Flowering Beans and Permaculture Workshop – Get your hands in the soil and be amazed!

• 🎧 Audio tasting – listen while you eat

• 🖼 Edible art & food design – beans as a question, a statement, and a snack

• 🔮 The Oral Oracle – an installation where your fate is determined by beans

• 💃 Bean Rave – because why shouldn’t a butterbean be able to dance?

For whom?

For people who love food and ideas.
For those who prefer to experience things rather than just consume them.
For curious minds, open eyes, and slightly rebellious palates.
You don’t have to be a bean expert.
You don’t even have to like beans.
You just need to keep an open mind.

📍 Food Design Playground – in the heart of Dordrecht (15 minutes from Rotterdam)

🕥 June 12–14
🎡 Festival Day: June 14, 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

🎟 Small-scale event, so tickets are limited

This isn’t a trade show.
It isn’t a market.
It isn’t just another food fair.
This is Bean There (done that).

And yes — you will return home differently than you arrived.

Want to attend every day? Then choose a discounted pass.