[Scpg] FYI/Food Sovereignty Week – September 9-15, 2013 Santa Barbara

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Food Sovereignty Week – September 9-15, 2013 Santa Barbara 
http://wholechildaction.org/food-sovereignty-week-september-9-15-2013/

Who Decides What You Eat?

The notion of Food Sovereignty arose as people around the world sought ways to rectify the dysfunction in the way food is grown, distributed, and consumed; a dysfunction that results in a seriously confusing outcome: record numbers of obese children who also happen to be utterly malnourished. The issues around food sovereignty are very complex, but might be distilled into a simple question: Who decides what you eat?

This question inspired the Orfalea Foundation, in collaboration with local and national partners, to create Food Sovereignty Week here in Santa Barbara, California. The week includes public events, such as a free screening of the documentary A Place at the Table on September 10 (reserve seats here) and an evening with bestselling author Janet Poppendieck as she discusses The Future of Hunger on September 12 (buy tickets here). The week concludes with the September 15 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County annual Table of Life Gala, supporting Feed the Future, a series of innovative programs that foster food literacy, nutritional health and independence in children of all ages.

FREE SCREENING: A Place At The Table

Tuesday, Sept. 10, 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30)
Marjorie Luke Theater
721 E. Cota Street, Santa Barbara
Join us for this thought-provoking documentary about the intersection of corporate food systems, public policy, and hunger in America today.

Stay after the film to meet people who are working to address hunger and food sovereignty issues locally.

“If another nation was doing this to our kids, we’d be at war.”

- Jeff Bridges, Founder of the End Hunger Network

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT(s)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/443154


The Future of Hunger: An Evening with Jan Poppendieck

Thursday, Sept. 12, 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30)
Santa Barbara Unified School District Mobile Cafes (Healthy Food Trucks!) at 5:15 PM
Marjorie Luke Theater
721 E. Cota Street, Santa Barbara
Book signing following the presentation
Noted author Jan Poppendieck will share her thoughts on possible solutions to the food systems challenges vexing America.

“By defining the problem as ‘hunger,’ the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.”
― Janet Poppendieck, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

$5.00 online (plus $1.13 handling fee) • $10 at the Door PURCHASE TICKETS



Proceeds benefit Foodbank of Santa Barbara County and the Orfalea Foundation’s School Food Initiative.

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