Peña is a group of people with a shared interest, gathering where culture is celebrated through music, dance, and traditional food in a festive atmosphere. Tinkuy is a Runa Simi (Quechua) word for encounter with its etymology coming from the complementarity of different or opposing parts. Intikuren, a platform for intercultural dialogues between tables and cultures, proposes a moment to celebrate exchanges and alliances in Abya Yala. Their first performative food offering for Rising from the Ashes gestures towards Afro-Andean culture in Peru, in which the stratification and marginalization imposed by colonization did not stop the formation of a culture that allowed different traditions to exist inseparably inside each other, with the original manifestations remaining despite the merging.

Intikuren’s food offering for Rising from the Ashes is rich in symbolism: manchapecho, a festive dish bold in layers of flavour and texture that is the serving of carapulcra, and centuries old stew recipe made on hot stones that is today prepared with dehydrated potatoes, and sopa seca, the Afro-Peruvian appropriation of Italian noodles prepared with local spices. Chicha morada, a sweet purple corn infusion made with fresh and dry spices, served chilled with a citrus quench. A creamy dessert made of the Andean fruit lúcuma. Accompanying stories and a sonic atmosphere of Afro-Peruvian and Andean songs evoking resistance, community, identity, and celebration, highlight the importance of places like the neighbourhood of El Carmen in Chincha, where significant cultural encounters occur, one of them been between renowned musicians and artists such as Máximo Damián Huamaní and Amador Ballumbrosio.