News
Alaska Anthropological Association Meetings
March 26, 2010
Millenium Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska
Movies and Munchies in the Eureka Coop Community Kitchen
Friday March 26, 12 & 6 PM
4th & B street
Tenakee Springs, Alaska
Filmmaker in the schools (K-12)
Community Screening
April 2, 2010
Earth Day 40 Film Series
Saturday April 10, 2009 1 PM
Bethlehem Public Library
Delmar, NY 12054
Sonoma International Film Festival
Sonoma, CA
April 18, 2010
12:30pm Ramekins Cafe Cinema
Hosted by the Alaska Wilderness League. Reception after with Sonoma Wine and Wild Alaskan salmon!
"In keeping with the Cinema Epicurean theme, the festival always features a focus on food and wine." Last year that meant Food Inc, this year it includes Eating Alaska.Sonoma News
The Alaska Wilderness League hosts the screening.
The League exists to lead the effort to preserve Alaska’s wilderness by engaging citizens, sharing resources, collaborating with other organizations, educating the public, and providing a courageous, constant and victorious voice for Alaska in the nation’s capital from all 50 states.
Filmmaker/Director attends
University of Maryland’s Earth Day Film Festival
Part of Earth Month
April 21 & 22nd, 2010 4:05 PM
Earth Day Film Festival-
Moving Toward Sustainability
University of Connecticut-Avery Point
Groton, CT
Marine Science Building, Room 103
Thursday April 22, 2010 6:00 PM
Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Libraries, with support from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), UConn's Department of Dining Services, retired veteran CANR writer Alexander Gavitt, and the Storrs and Avery Point EcoHusky student organizations.
Nome Community Screening
May 2010
Date TBA
(Director attends/during an artist in schools residency)
Twisp Rural Roots Film Festival
Twisp, Washington
May 29, 2010
CONFERENCES AUGUST-SEPTEMBER
Society for Social Problems, Atlanta
North American Assn. for Environmental Education, Buffalo, NY
Rural Sociology Conference, Atlanta
Paths Across the Pacific, Sitka
ALSO: LA City College, Earth Day and Slow Food and public library screenings in the works
USE NOTES
Alaska Fish and Game is planning to use Eating Alaska in community workshops and trainings. This is part of the "No Child Left Indoors" campaign to reconnect kids with the restorative, challenging, primal qualities of nature. Even in Alaska kids (and adults) are spending more and more time engaged in sedentary, indoor activities.
Michigan State University recently screened Eating Alaska as part of a Food Film Series
The festival is part on an ongoing conversation at MSU on food, sustainability and the environment.
"A documentary about a vegetarian who moves to Alaska and is forced to confront a lot of the ethical issues she thought she had already settled on. The film chronicles her experience and the dilemmas she faces. Humorous and relatable to anyone who has ever pondered over the ethical questions of being a vegetarian or a carnivore." (from a blog on the Michigan State University Fisheries & Wildlife Club).
Other campuses are using the film in classes including:
Environmental Studies/Human Ecology/Ecology
Culinary/Nutrition Studies
Sociology/Anthropology/Geography
Humanities/Philosophy
Public Health
Community Agriculture/Fisheries/Food Security
Native American Studies
Women's Studies
Film Studies
SAMPLE RESPONSE AND A NOTE ON THE MEANING OF IMPACT
An e-mail from a public librarian below, provokes some thought on use and impact:
Festivals are fun, awards are great to mark getting through a project. However, it is school and community use, in whatever form, from clinics and churches to prisons and libraries is at the core of why I spend so much time scratching my head and trying to turn random ideas and issues into something a group can watch together.
"We showed Eating Alaska and we had 47 senior patrons come to the movie( for us this is a really good crowd. They thoroughly enjoyed the film. They commented about the breath taking scenery, the storyline and nutrition information. They especially liked the part with the children in the grocery store and learning about food labels- they said all schools should have an outing like this one."
Terri Campbell
Community Services/Adult Programming
Prospect Heights Public Library, Il
03/26/2010: "EATING ALASKA UPDATE ON SCREENINGS AND USE"
Some upcoming screeningsAlaska Anthropological Association Meetings
March 26, 2010
Millenium Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska
Movies and Munchies in the Eureka Coop Community Kitchen
Friday March 26, 12 & 6 PM
4th & B street
Tenakee Springs, Alaska
Filmmaker in the schools (K-12)
Community Screening
April 2, 2010
Earth Day 40 Film Series
Saturday April 10, 2009 1 PM
Bethlehem Public Library
Delmar, NY 12054
Sonoma International Film Festival
Sonoma, CA
April 18, 2010
12:30pm Ramekins Cafe Cinema
Hosted by the Alaska Wilderness League. Reception after with Sonoma Wine and Wild Alaskan salmon!
"In keeping with the Cinema Epicurean theme, the festival always features a focus on food and wine." Last year that meant Food Inc, this year it includes Eating Alaska.Sonoma News
The Alaska Wilderness League hosts the screening.
The League exists to lead the effort to preserve Alaska’s wilderness by engaging citizens, sharing resources, collaborating with other organizations, educating the public, and providing a courageous, constant and victorious voice for Alaska in the nation’s capital from all 50 states.
Filmmaker/Director attends
University of Maryland’s Earth Day Film Festival
Part of Earth Month
April 21 & 22nd, 2010 4:05 PM
Earth Day Film Festival-
Moving Toward Sustainability
University of Connecticut-Avery Point
Groton, CT
Marine Science Building, Room 103
Thursday April 22, 2010 6:00 PM
Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Libraries, with support from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), UConn's Department of Dining Services, retired veteran CANR writer Alexander Gavitt, and the Storrs and Avery Point EcoHusky student organizations.
Nome Community Screening
May 2010
Date TBA
(Director attends/during an artist in schools residency)
Twisp Rural Roots Film Festival
Twisp, Washington
May 29, 2010
CONFERENCES AUGUST-SEPTEMBER
Society for Social Problems, Atlanta
North American Assn. for Environmental Education, Buffalo, NY
Rural Sociology Conference, Atlanta
Paths Across the Pacific, Sitka
ALSO: LA City College, Earth Day and Slow Food and public library screenings in the works
USE NOTES
Alaska Fish and Game is planning to use Eating Alaska in community workshops and trainings. This is part of the "No Child Left Indoors" campaign to reconnect kids with the restorative, challenging, primal qualities of nature. Even in Alaska kids (and adults) are spending more and more time engaged in sedentary, indoor activities.
Michigan State University recently screened Eating Alaska as part of a Food Film Series
The festival is part on an ongoing conversation at MSU on food, sustainability and the environment.
"A documentary about a vegetarian who moves to Alaska and is forced to confront a lot of the ethical issues she thought she had already settled on. The film chronicles her experience and the dilemmas she faces. Humorous and relatable to anyone who has ever pondered over the ethical questions of being a vegetarian or a carnivore." (from a blog on the Michigan State University Fisheries & Wildlife Club).
Other campuses are using the film in classes including:
Environmental Studies/Human Ecology/Ecology
Culinary/Nutrition Studies
Sociology/Anthropology/Geography
Humanities/Philosophy
Public Health
Community Agriculture/Fisheries/Food Security
Native American Studies
Women's Studies
Film Studies
SAMPLE RESPONSE AND A NOTE ON THE MEANING OF IMPACT
An e-mail from a public librarian below, provokes some thought on use and impact:
Festivals are fun, awards are great to mark getting through a project. However, it is school and community use, in whatever form, from clinics and churches to prisons and libraries is at the core of why I spend so much time scratching my head and trying to turn random ideas and issues into something a group can watch together.
"We showed Eating Alaska and we had 47 senior patrons come to the movie( for us this is a really good crowd. They thoroughly enjoyed the film. They commented about the breath taking scenery, the storyline and nutrition information. They especially liked the part with the children in the grocery store and learning about food labels- they said all schools should have an outing like this one."
Terri Campbell
Community Services/Adult Programming
Prospect Heights Public Library, Il
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