News
Upcoming Screenings:
Alaska Forum on the Environment
February 3rd at 2:00 p.m.
Talkeetna AK, Community Screening
February 18, 2009 at 6:30 p.m
Juneau, AK Community Screening, March 1, 2009
Juneau Arts & Culture Center
Additional Juneau Screenings:
Juneau High School and University of Alaska SE
See: Sustainable Juneau
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival , Sebastopol, CA March 6, 2009
Food for Thought Film Festival, New York City April 2009
Alaska Dietetic Association Conference May 15, 2009
Mendocino Film Festival, Northern CA, May 2009
Other News
We're posting this list as a wellness committee in the Southeast Alaskan town of Wrangell starts to organize an event around Eating Alaska and the day after the film screened at the public library in Haines, Alaska. These community creenings are collaboratively organized by community, conservation and health programs including the Southeast Regional Health Consortium and the Southeast Regional Conservation Council and the Sitka Conservation Society.
We recently got news of funding through the Center for Disease Control and Steps to a Healthier S.E. Alaska to produce a curriculum and user's guide to print and put on-line. Our goal is to have version to send out with DVDs and post by late summer of 2009.
Reviews
Here is an sample of what people are saying about Eating Alaska:.
"Eating Alaska asks all the right questions and urges us to find our own answers. The film is a very useful and heartful tool for talking about food justice and food systems and to help all of us to create a new story about food."
- Peter Forbes, Co-Founder Center for Whole Communities
“What is the role of food in our lives? What is ‘good’ food? When is ‘fresh’ not best? Should all diets be local? Does place (or preparation) matter? Who decides? Who pays for our choices? This engaging film provides plenty of ‘food for thought’ about some of the most important questions we can ask ourselves, both as individuals and as communities. This thoughtful film is likely to be a conversation starter in any group, and may even spur a few to action."
-Rhonda M. Johnson, Professor of Public Health, University of Alaska Anchorage
"Eating Alaska makes us ruminate, laugh and stand in awe, all at the same time. Rather than one more dry polemic on the ethics of eating that attempts to convert you, this film shines the light on the difficulties of eating sustainably and healthily in one of the richest foodsheds of North America.Whether you are from the Skin-Yourself-a-Moose state or from the Land of Tofu--or both--you need to take this journey with Ellen to explore the dilemmas of eating-in-place. It isn't as simple as you think....it's far more complex than we can think."
-Gary Nabhan, author of Where Our Food Comes From and Coming Home to Eat
01/28/2009: "Screenings and Response: Eating Alaska and Audience Engagement"
After the screening at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, one of the first questions a woman in the audience asked was, "what can I do?" Our hope is that screenings of Eating Alaska will be continue to be linked to discussions, community actions and connect viewers to things they can do in their homes, with their families, in schools, workplaces and whereever they live, be it as part of a remote village's culture camp or an urban gardening program.Upcoming Screenings:
Alaska Forum on the Environment
February 3rd at 2:00 p.m.
Talkeetna AK, Community Screening
February 18, 2009 at 6:30 p.m
Juneau, AK Community Screening, March 1, 2009
Juneau Arts & Culture Center
Additional Juneau Screenings:
Juneau High School and University of Alaska SE
See: Sustainable Juneau
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival , Sebastopol, CA March 6, 2009
Food for Thought Film Festival, New York City April 2009
Alaska Dietetic Association Conference May 15, 2009
Mendocino Film Festival, Northern CA, May 2009
Other News
We're posting this list as a wellness committee in the Southeast Alaskan town of Wrangell starts to organize an event around Eating Alaska and the day after the film screened at the public library in Haines, Alaska. These community creenings are collaboratively organized by community, conservation and health programs including the Southeast Regional Health Consortium and the Southeast Regional Conservation Council and the Sitka Conservation Society.
We recently got news of funding through the Center for Disease Control and Steps to a Healthier S.E. Alaska to produce a curriculum and user's guide to print and put on-line. Our goal is to have version to send out with DVDs and post by late summer of 2009.
Reviews
Here is an sample of what people are saying about Eating Alaska:.
"Eating Alaska asks all the right questions and urges us to find our own answers. The film is a very useful and heartful tool for talking about food justice and food systems and to help all of us to create a new story about food."
- Peter Forbes, Co-Founder Center for Whole Communities
“What is the role of food in our lives? What is ‘good’ food? When is ‘fresh’ not best? Should all diets be local? Does place (or preparation) matter? Who decides? Who pays for our choices? This engaging film provides plenty of ‘food for thought’ about some of the most important questions we can ask ourselves, both as individuals and as communities. This thoughtful film is likely to be a conversation starter in any group, and may even spur a few to action."
-Rhonda M. Johnson, Professor of Public Health, University of Alaska Anchorage
"Eating Alaska makes us ruminate, laugh and stand in awe, all at the same time. Rather than one more dry polemic on the ethics of eating that attempts to convert you, this film shines the light on the difficulties of eating sustainably and healthily in one of the richest foodsheds of North America.Whether you are from the Skin-Yourself-a-Moose state or from the Land of Tofu--or both--you need to take this journey with Ellen to explore the dilemmas of eating-in-place. It isn't as simple as you think....it's far more complex than we can think."
-Gary Nabhan, author of Where Our Food Comes From and Coming Home to Eat
Ellen Frankenstein, on 01.28.09 @ 17:40AKT
