[Sust-mar] Free documentary film screenings: Mahone Bay & Lunenburg

[Saskia Tait]

Please join us for free documentary movie nights on the south shore  
during INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEEK, 2009.

Genuine Progress Index Atlantic, the New Earth Institute and Mahone  
Grown are hosting two film screenings: "THE FUTURE OF FOOD" (www.thefutureoffood.com 
) in Mahone Bay on Tuesday, February 3rd, 7-9p.m. and "ONE MAN, ONE  
COW, ONE PLANET" (http://howtosavetheworld.co.nz)  in Lunenburg on  
Saturday, February 7th, 7-9p.m.

Films will be followed by an optional period of discussion about the  
themes and questions raised by the films and how they are relevant in  
our lives and communities.

See details below!  We hope to see you. For information, please  
contact Saskia Tait: saskiatait at gmail.com; 902-489-2524.

"FUTURE OF FOOD" - SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Date: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Time: 7-9 P.M.
Venue: COMMUNITY ROOM, MAHONE BAY CENTRE, MAHONE BAY
Address: 45 SCHOOL STREET, MAHONE BAY
Telephone number: 902-489-2524
Movie Description: "THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth  
investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled,  
patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S.  
grocery store shelves for the past decade.From the prairies of  
Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives  
a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively  
impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government  
policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why  
many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered  
crops into our food supply.Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and  
Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and  
political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational  
corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also  
explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing  
organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm  
crisis today."


"ONE MAN, ONE COW, ONE PLANET" - SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Date: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Time: 7-9 P.M.
Venue: LUNENBURG ACADEMY
Address: THIRD FLOOR ASSEMBLY HALL, 97-101 KAULBACH STREET, LUNENBURG
Telephone number: 902-489-2524
Movie Description: "What does an environmentally friendly biodynamic  
food system capable of feeding everyone actually look like? This film  
is a blueprint for a post-industrial future. It takes you into the  
heart of the world's most important renaissance. The outcome of the  
battle for agricultural control in India may just dictate the future  
of the earth." -- "The goal of this project was to use a universally  
accepted medium - documentary film - to expose an agricultural  
technology not widely understood outside a reasonably esoteric group  
of practitioners. And to set this technolgy in a social, cultural and  
political paradigm that would take the audience on a journey beyond  
the 'how-to' into an undertstanding of how the world balances on such  
old/new technologies as biodynamics".

Saskia Tait
Tel: 902-489-2524
E-Mail: info at newearthinstitute.ca