A Lambertville Film Fest about Gardening, Food, and Water!!! My good friend, Sarah (who is also producing the event), asked me to be a speaker for the film The World According To Monsanto, May 16th.
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SPECIAL “GREEN” FILM SERIES TO CELEBRATE THE PLANTING OF LAMBERTVILLE LIBRARY’S SUSTAINABLE GARDEN ON MAY 9th & 16th!
TICKET PRICE PER FILM: $7 in advance/$10 at door
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May 9th
The Garden
5 pm & 6:25 pm
7:45 pm Post Film Speakers/Discussion: Meg Metz, Farmer’s Market Manager, Hunterdon Land Trust Alliance, Meredith Taylor, Senior Project Manager, Community Gardening and Nutrition, Isles, Julia Taylor, President, SEE Lambertville
A 2009 Oscar nominated documentary feature about the citizen fight for a 14-acre tract of South Central LA land, a farm that citizens cultivated from abandoned land after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992. But when the City of Los Angeles and a powerful developer tried to evict the farmers and build warehouses, the citizens fought back. Not Rated; 80 minutes, 2008
Thanks to this program’s co-sponsors: Hunterdon Land Trust Alliance (www.hlta.org
May 16th
The World According to Monsanto
5 pm & 6:55 pm
8:45 pm Post Film Speakers/Discussion “Food Glorious Food”
Jackie Ricotta, PhD, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Delaware Valley College [http://www.delval.edu], teaches courses on Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Crop Production and serves on the Board of the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance; Kendra Thatcher, Operations Coordinator, Food Network [http://www.foodnetwork.com/], writer of the Media Harvest blog [http://mediaharvest.blogspot.com/] and contributor to Dish Du Jour Magazine [http://www.dishdujourmagazine.com/default.aspx]; Kimberly Kaufmann, Leader Slow Food Bucks County and Co-Founder of Bucks County Foodshed Alliance [http://www.buckscountyfoodshedalliance.org/] bringing farmers, landowners, restaurateurs, educators, environmentalists and consumers together to foster and expand a comprehensive, local, sustainable food supply in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
A film by Marie-Monique Robin, documents the devastating cost of Monsanto’s race over the last decade to genetically engineer and patent the world’s crops. Robin’s interviews with scientists, legislators, agricultural officials, farmers, shepherds, and families affected by genetically modified organisms (GMOs), has made this picture critically-acclaimed in every country where it has opened. Not Rated; 108 minutes
*”Slow Food” is a movement to catalyze a broad cultural shift away from the destructive effects of an industrial food system and fast life; toward the regenerative cultural, social and economic benefits of a sustainable food system, regional food traditions, the pleasures of the table, and a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life.
May 23rd
FLOW-For the Love of Water
5 pm & 6:40 pm
8:15 pm Post Film Speaker/Discussion “Drink Local-Flow Global”
Peggy Krist, Water Rights Activist, will speak briefly about how she’s made a difference globally through local projects sponsored by the Jonathan D. Krist Foundation, established in memory of her son.
Jim Waltman, Executive Director, Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association will speak and lead a discussion on the status of our local water supply and how preservation of those natural resources impacts the global water supply.
A documentary that explores the disturbing reality that our crucial resource, Water, is dwindling at an alarming rate and our greed may very well be the cause. What do we do when we lose our very essence of life? This film explores the problems, solutions and what people are doing on a personal level to fight this battle. Not Rated; 93 minutes, 2008
** “Take Back the Tap: Taste Test Challenge” will be held in the ACME lobby. See if you can tell the difference between bottled water and tap! Conducted by the NHS Environmental Club
