Celebrating Local Food, Creating Permanent Community Spaces

Gardening Matters and the Midtown Farmers Market invite you to a two-part film event

The Garden
Wednesday, September 9^th - 7p.m.

Riverview Theater
&

Food Fight
Wednesday, September 16^th - 7 p.m.
 Riverview Theater

Do we value our community spaces?  How do community gardens and farmers markets impact our ability to nourish ourselves and the neighborhoods in which we live?  What can and should be done to protect these spaces for the benefit of the common good?

The Garden: In 1992, neighbors working together to grow food, feed families, build community, and repair blight established The Garden, a 14-acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles.  It became the largest community garden in the United States.  But behind closed doors at City Hall, the Garden was sold to a developer for less than fair-market value.  The Garden, an Oscar-nominated documentary by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, follows a group of urban farmers, mostly immigrants from Latin America, as they organize, fight back, and demand answers. View the trailer at www.blackvalleyfilms.com

Food Fight: When we walk into a supermarket, it's easy to believe we are in the midst of the widest possible selection of wholesome foods available.  Don't be fooled: Chris Taylor's film Food Fight documents how over the course of the 20th century, our food system has been co-opted by corporations whose interests aren't always in providing our families with fresh, healthy, and sustainably-produced food.  But there are alternatives: beginning with the 1960's counter-cultural revolution, Taylor's film features some of the folks who have been taking our nation's food production back into their own hands through innovative urban agriculture projects, schoolyard gardens, locally provisioned restaurants, and community farmers markets. View the trailer at www.foodfightthedoc.com.

Featured Speakers: Following each film there will be a brief presentation/panel discussion to address the issues raised by the films. Chris Taylor, director of Food Fight will be at the screening on the 16th to discuss the documentary & answer questions from the audience. Additional speakers to be announced...

Tickets for both shows are $10 at the door, no advance sales.

 Doors open at 6:30pm.

The Riverview is located at 3800 42nd Avenue South, Minneapolis, 55406.

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Sponsored by the Midtown Farmers Market, www.midtownfarmersmarket.org, & Gardening Matters, www.gardeningmatters.org with support from our Promotional Partners:  Birchwood Cafe, Common Roots Café, Environmental Justice Advocates of MN, Headwaters Foundation for Justice, Land Stewardship Project, MN Food and Justice Alliance, Peace Coffee, and Seward Co-op

Please contact Jesse with any questions and we hope to see you there!

Jesse Eustis - jesse.gardeningmatters@gmail.com