What: New Locavore Documentary & Local Foods Potluck
When: Sunday, March 29 (5:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA
Cost: $10 (children under 12 are free) A small entrance
fee is require as it helps pay for facility rental, screening licensing fees,
sound system, and purchase of eco friendly, compostable dinnerware
Space is limited so please RSVP
Event Schedule
5:30 PM - event starts / Freedom Gardens Swap N Meet (exchange
seeds, plants, produce, soil block making demonstration and more!)
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM - local food potluck
7:30 PM - film screening EATING ALASKA (57 minutes)
8:30 PM - discussion / pop quiz and win prizes!
9:00 PM - event ends
Film
A wry journey for the “right thing” to eat
“Eating Alaska makes us ruminate, laugh and stand in
awe, all at the same time.”
-Gary Nabhan, Author, Coming Home to Eat and Where Our Food
Comes From
“Eating Alaska asks all the right questions and urges
us to find our own answers. The film is a very useful and heartful tool for
talking about food justice and food systems and to help all of us to create a
new story about food.”
-
Peter Forbes, Co-Founder Center for Whole Communities
What happens to a vegetarian who moves to the last frontier?
Eating Alaska is a serious and humorous film about
connecting to where you live and eating locally. It is about trying to break
away from the industrial food system when that means not only buying fresh
seasonal food from local farmers, but taking part in a world of hunting and
gathering. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and
married to fisherman and deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food
traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put into our
mouths.
The film portrays a wry quest for safe, healthy, meaningful,
and sustainable food that leads to climbing mountains with women hunters,
scrutinizing food labels with kids, talking moose meat with teens in a small
village public school, and exploring how others in the last frontier, Alaska
Natives and non-Natives, are eating.
Eating Alaska takes viewers from a lower 48 farmer’s
market to the tundra to look for caribou, from fishing for wild salmon to
visiting a vegan cooking class in Wasilla. Along the way we will visit with
people who are grappling with what is on their plates and trying to balance
living off the land with the convenience and speed of reaching for what’s
on the shelf at the supermarket. This is a story about connecting to where we
live, urban or far from it, and coming to terms with what we eat and how we
come by it.
Potluck
Bring something (preferably vegetarian) to contribute to the
potluck - bring enough food for yourself/family and a bit to share. The primary
focus of the ‘Locavore’ potluck is to promote eating whole foods,
in their nature-made state, focusing on fresh food from local sources (or as
local as possible)
If not FROM BACKYARD then locally produced.
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.
Freedom Garden Swap N Meet
Join local homegrown revolutionaries - swap crops, seeds,
expertise and more.
Growing for 21st century food security, FreedomGardens.org
is a free interactive, online social community of gardening enthusiasts who are
fed up with foreign oil, frequent food miles and high food prices.
Reserve for this event at http://www.pathtofreedom.com/form/eventregistration.htm
or call 626.795.8400