What’s a “delicious revolution”? Edible Schoolyard founder Alice Waters talks about the value of garden and kitchen experiences in transforming students’ relationship to food. Download the free Nourish food literacy curriculum at www.nourishlife.org.
What’s a “delicious revolution”? Edible Schoolyard founder Alice Waters talks about the value of garden and kitchen experiences in transforming students’ relationship to food. Download the free Nourish food literacy curriculum at www.nourishlife.org.
In what ways is food political? What are the leverage points for political change related to food? How have politics influenced the development of the food system at large? How can we expect these issues to change as our population becomes larger, more diverse, and less economically stable?
Lecture by: MARION NESTLE, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in molecular biology and her M.P.H. in public health nutrition both from the University of California, Berkeley. She is chair of the Council on Nutrition Policy of the National Association for Public Health Policy. Her research focuses on the socioeconomic influences on food choice, obesity, and food safety. The author of numerous publications and books, Nestle writes the Food Matters column for The San Francisco Chronicle, and also writes for www.foodpolitics.com.
Edible Education 101: The Rise and Future…
Race and place have played a large role in shaping current dynamics, relationships, and injustices in the food system. Social circumstances and biases determine resource allocation, food access, and (in large part) the health of a community. How have these underlying tensions impacted communities across the country? What kind of dialogue and action is necessary to create real solutions for real people?
Lecture by: ALEGRĺA DE LA CRUZ, Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment; REBECCA FLOURNOY, PolicyLink; YVONNE YEN LIU, Applied Research Center/Colorlines, Inc.
ALEGRĺA DE LA CRUZ
Alegría De La Cruz is the Legal Director at the Center on Race, Pverty, and the Environment. She was born in Delano, California to a family of farm worker organizers. Alegria has used her experience in international economic development, as a legal advocate at California Rural Legal Assistance, and as a Roots of Change Fellow to advocate for farm workers in the Central Valley and centralize justice in the…
The role of culture and the arts in deepening and strengthening the social and political roots of the food movement -- the aesthetics of shaping, informing and engaging diverse citizens and reimagining the public sphere.
WITH PETER SELLARS
Opera, theater, and festival director Peter Sellars is one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts in America and abroad. A visionary artist, Sellars is known for ground-breaking interpretations of classic works. Whether it is Mozart, Handel, Shakespeare, Sophocles, or the 16th-century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu, Peter Sellars strikes a universal chord with audiences, engaging and illuminating contemporary social and political issues. In 2011 he staged "Nixon in China" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; "Hercules" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; "The Winds of Destiny" at the Ojai Music Festival and Cal Performances; and "Griselda" at the Santa Fe Opera. Sellars is a professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures…
What is the Global Food Movement? Given your experience of more than two decades of work, how has the movement changed and where do you foresee it going in the future? What do you think the biggest challenges will be and how will we overcome them?
Lecture by CARLO PETRINI with CORBY KUMMER, Introduced by Instructor NIKKI HENDERSON
Carlo Petrini is the founder and president of the international Slow Food movement, based in Bra, Italy. For over twenty years, Petrini has worked to promote local communities of farmers and artisan food producers throughout the world. Slow Food is an international, member-supported non-profit organization with over 100,000 members in 1,300 local chapters, and a network of 2,000 food communities who practice small-scale and sustainable food production. Slow Food is the convener of “Terra Madre,” a biennial conference in Turin Italy bringing together 40,000 farmers, ranchers, and other food producers, in addition to scholars and policy makers in agriculture,…
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