The Great Food Revolution: Join us for screening and discussion on Thursday
We’re loving the DC Environmental Film Festival, which features a great selection of films related to food justice issues.
This Thursday, a group of us will go together to see the Great Food Revolution, a short film that takes a ranging look at the community food infrastructure of New York City. Says the film’s synopsis, it’s about:
the complex choreography of distribution that keeps New Yorkers fed. It’s a dance of supply and demand that happens in cities all over the world, every day. Most people are dependent upon what happens in the middle of the night at, say, the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center and/or the New Fulton Fish Market, where decisions about produce, seafood and other perishable food items are made for the upcoming day. Some people are on the move, such as artisan farmers bringing their foods to market, or cargo ships bringing in imported foods such as bananas. Many others, such as restaurateurs, are buying food for the entire day’s needs. Throughout the city, the dance continues.
It’s a free screening – woo! And following the screening, we’ll head to nearby Nanny O’Briens where we’ve reserved the backroom at 8:30pm, a space of our own for discussion. (It’s just up Connecticut Ave and right next to the Cleveland Park Metro.) We’ll consider the snapshot of NYC’s food systems, and compare with our knowledge of similar systems here in DC.
Let us know you’re interested in coming by shooting an email to DCFoodForAll@gmail.com.
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