Marion Institute’s Sustainable Screening Series film explores re-inventing our food system
GateHouse News Service
Posted May 10, 2010 @ 06:00 AM
MARION — The Marion Institute’s Sustainable Screening Series will present a free screening of the film FRESH Thursday, May 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with Sarah Cogswell of SEMAP, Ann Richards, a community activist from Fairhaven, and Dr. Kumara Sidhartha, M.D. The screening and panel discussion will take place at Tabor Academy, Lyndon Hall South in the Academic Center, 85 Spring St.
Parking is available on Spring Street. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Space is limited. Seating is first-come, first-served. For directions, go online to www.taboracademy.org.
The movie FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision of our food and our planet’s future.
FRESH addresses an ethos that has been sweeping the nation and is a call to action America has been waiting for. The film features several main characters including Will Allen, Joel Salatin, Michael Pollan and David Ball.
The film FRESH is the first in the Marion Institute’s Sustainable Screening Series and is sponsored by How on Earth store and restaurant in Mattapoisett and The Marion Institute. This is a film series that will be brought to the tri-town area every few months, with the goal of turning individual’s passion and ideas into community-wide conversation and action. The film will be a beginning to what will be an education film series that hopes to lend a hand in creating a more sustainable tri-town and Southcoast region.
Founded in 1993, the Marion Institute is a member based nonprofit that is dedicated to identifying, promoting and incubating programs and projects, both on a global and local level, that seek to enhance life for the Earth and its inhabitants. One such program is Connecting for Change: A Bioneers by the Bay Conference.
For more information on the Marion Institute and the Sustainable Screening Series visit, www.marioninstitute.org.
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