Localizando Food

Sunday, November 07, 2010 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
at Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th St., Indianapolis, IN 46220

Event Description: An innovative documentary and stop-motion animation film, both created by local youth, explore the social implications of insufficient food choices. The films showcase local projects challenging the status quo and changing the way Indianapolis eats. Dialogue with local filmmakers and residents, facilitated by youth, will follow. Presented by The Latino/a Youth Collective; Indianapolis Art Center; IUPUI, Center for Urban and Multicultural Education; IUPUI, Common Theme Project; IUPUI Multicultural Center; and IUPUI, Office of International Affairs. Questions? Call 317-892-9323 or email info@latinoyouthcollective.com.

The Latino/a Youth Collective and its partners invite audience members to screen Localizando Food and Fight of a Century, film projects created by local youth. Localizando Food and Fight of a Century are samples of the extraordinary collaborative work of youth living, working, and studying in the greater Indianapolis area. What they discovered while producing this documentary was the complexity of food systems, which reach far beyond the city limits and have tremendous influence over the way food is produced, processed, distributed, marketed, consumed, etc.

Created during the 2009 Campecine Youth Academy, Localizando Food will challenge audience members by bringing global food issues to the local level. The event will include a film screening, small group dialogues facilitated by youth and a larger group discussion led by youth filmmakers and local and healthy foods advocates. Our goal is to provide the audience with a time to reflect on our individual food choices, as well as how these influence the larger community. We have the opportunity to vote three times every day–with our forks!

Through critical community dialogue, audience members are challenged to deepen their own understandings of the complexities of food and the places where they acquire their day-to-day sustenance. Indianapolis is ripe with possibilities for audience members to become involved in community gardens; participate in blossoming farmer’s markets revival; support local, organic growers and plug in to projects promoting food equity in the greater metropolitan area. The varriomentary will introduce a handful of these beams of hope, but its makers also hope the audience will share their own knowledge, experiences and contacts with us and the other participants of Spirit & Place, sending out positive ripples outwards into the city. Let us begin to “vote with our forks” and encourage others to do the same.

www.latinoyouthcollective.com
www.spiritandplace.org
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Event information on the Spirit & Place website