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Friday, February 20th
EATING ALASKA GOES TO THE ALASKA'S CAPITAL
JUNEAU, ALASKA 2009
February 28th University of Alaska, S.E. Lecture Hall at 6 P.M
Sunday March 1st, Juneau Arts and Culture Center.
Doors open at 2:30pm and the film starts at 4 P.M.
Arrive before the film begins at the downtown showing to learn how people in Juneau are incorporating local and healthy foods into their diets and how you can too! Get involved in sustainable eating with community booths, activities for kids (painting with Fruit hosted by The Canvas and yummy door prizes too!
Tickets are pay as you can at the door.
For information contact:
Amanda Rutledge at the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council.
amanda@seacc.org or 907-586-6942.
On February 27th, we'll also be sharing the film with students at Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alternative High School & Juneau -Douglas High Schools and we'll get them talking about making choices, eating local and more.
Special thanks to SEACC's winter grassroots intern and the University of Alaska, SE for sponsoring the filmmaker to come in person, to KTOO FM & TV, public broadcasting from Alaska's Capital, for promotion and many others.
SEE BLOGS BELOW FOR A LIST OF UPCOMING SCREENINGS MARCH-MAY 2009
Ellen Frankenstein, on 02.20.09 @ 10:28AKT [link]
Wednesday, February 18th
TALKEETNA ALASKA LIVE ON-LINE EVENT
Want to get ideas on hosting a community screening or listen in on one?
It will be homespun, gritty, serious and fun, and that combination actually mirrors the the film.
At 8 PST (7 PM in Alaska time) Wednesday February 18th tune into Whole Wheat Radio
in Talkeetna Alaska for a live Eating Alaska Event.
The live collaboration / chat room will be open the public as well during the show. You'll see it on the left-hand menu if you come to the site.
Local entrance requirements:
Bring something you grew, brew, gathered or caught. Exception: chocolate.
You might listen in and hear locals eating and sharing moose, salmon, fiddle head ferns, jam, and rhubarb pie.
This event includes a discussion after the screening and streaming with two staff members from the
Alaska Community Action on Toxics.
ACAT's mission is to assure justice by advocating for environmental and community health. The group is in a scene in Eating Alaska, and they work to help make sure everyone has the right to clean air, clean water, and toxic-free food.
Whole Wheat Radio s a homegrown grassroots online radio station. The station is an off-shoot of the Wikipedia collaborative wiki model.
Ellen Frankenstein, on 02.18.09 @ 08:06AKT [link]
Sunday, February 15th
EATING ALASKA GUIDE AND SCREENINGS
We're at work on a user's and curriculum guide!
Last week's work included showing Eating Alaska at Pacific High and Mt. Edgecumbe High School and talking with teachers and students about the film and how we can use it to encourage discussion, promote action in health, social studies, environmental science, English classes and more.
We've also been getting queries about showing the film as part of a "Green Sanctuary" movement or by the Green teams in Churches and been organizing screenings with sustainability and community groups.
Screenings coming up:
TALKEETNA, ALASKA
Talkeetna is known for its close proximity to salmon fishing and to Denali National Park, as well as serving as the inspiration for the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, in the CBS TV series Northern Exposure.
at Whole Wheat Radio
7 P.M. Alaska time February 18, 2009.
As part of this community screening, there will be a wild foods potluck so viewers can munch on Alaska's bounty while they watch the film. Moose, salmon, fiddle head ferns, jam, rhubarb pie--whatever locals have that is Alaskan food or close to it.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Eating Alaska is coming to Juneau with two showings open to the community!
February 28th the film will show at the University of Alaska, S.E. Lecture Hall at 6 P.M
Sunday March 1st, there will be a downtown showing at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center.
February 27: Special screenings for Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alternative High School & Juneau -Douglas High Schools.
MORE SCREENINGS
SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Friday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.
Sebastopol Cinemas #1
6868 McKinley Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
HAIDA GWAII, BRITISH COLUMBIA
By some rather roundabout communications with a filmmaking colleague in Cuba, we were just invited to screen at a new film
festival, Haida Gwaii Film Festival
in the Queen Charlotte Islands or Haida Gwaii (Islands of the People) with the goal of becoming one of the top film festivals in a remote place in Canada.
The Haida Gwaii Film Festival takes place March 6 -8, 2009.
NOME, ALASKA
March 28, 2009
Details forthcoming
Some Other Upcoming Screenings:
• Reel to Real Food Film Festival, Missoula, MT March 14, 2009
• Yes We Must!: An Environmental Film and Discussion Series , Bainbridge Island, WA March 27, 2009, 7 P.M.
• Food for Thought Film Festival, New York City April 11 or 18, 2009
• Homer Alaska Community Screening, April 22, 2009
• Copper Landing, AK Community Screening, April 23, 2009
• Alaska Dietetic Association Conference, May 15, 2009
• Wrangell, AK May 18, 2009
• Mendocino Film Festival, Northern CA, May 29 (TBA) 2009
• Path to Freedom , Pasadena, CA TBA
(A grassroots, family operated, viable urban homesteading project. Their mission is to educate individuals and families to integrate sustainable living practices and methods into their daily lives).
Ellen Frankenstein, on 02.15.09 @ 16:27AKT [link]
